Hi all thanks for that equation honeypump , when i got the nuc it was actually overfull (to many bees) but because it was a replacement it was the one i recieved , anyway with the feeder inside i have had to take out 2 frames to make room as it has some plastic frames in it and with 10 frames when i started it was to tight so i took one out leaving 9 ,then when i had my ant problem and i replaced it with the in hive feeder i had to take out another leaving 8 ,3 x new and 5 from the nuc .
This saturday i will remove the feeder completely so wil put in another empty frame of foundation , the frames have bees on them all even on the side of the feeder as i had to brush them off yesterday to replace the syrup . i havent gone into the brood nest since tuesday of last week and only checked the outer frames which are almost drawn out now with necter in plus there would have been probably a continual hatching of brood so the hive may well be getting full .
What i was thinking of doing was taking maybe two frames of brood from the brood box and putting it into the new super above the queen excluder and replacing the frames with foundation in the brood nest giveing the queen more room to lay once drawn out and once the brood is hatched i can recycle the plastic frames , they are mainly plastic frames and i want to recycle them for wooden this may attract more bees to move up into the second super by my thinking anyway next inspection will be on saturday morning .
A couple of points of advice.
1. Stick to 10 frames in the brood chamber, bottom box. Going with 9 will violate bee-space and you will end up with some weird and wild combs. Above the queen excluder, in honey supers, you can go 9.
2. Do not put brood above the queen excluder. That introduces high likelihood of queen cells being drawn out up there. Keep the brood with the queen below the excluder. Move honey frames up above the excluder.
3. In as much as possible do not put foundation in the brood nest. Give the nest, give the queen, only drawn combs. Put the foundation in the 2nd box and have the bees draw it out up there. Once drawn, then move it down for the queen to use. If you have to put foundation in the bottom, put it against the wall, last frame in the box.