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Firebrick Formicarium

Started By Yosigi , Oct 5 2018 2:14 PM
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#41 Offline Rstheant - Posted December 2 2018 - 12:54 PM

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Wow! This looks great! Just a suggestion for next time: you may want to use magnets in a Tarheel Ants style to connect the acrylic. It makes cleaning and moving in and out very easy. May I ask where you bought the Firebrick? I plan on making a Formicarium myself. Here are the crude designs, but the explanation helps compensate for it. It's a bit of a read though haha. http://www.formicult...-for-tiny-ants/
I would definitely move the Camponotus into this. It would be better for their first hibernation.


I purchase my k23 firebrick from Clay Planet @Major. It has a lot of pottery supplies too, like terra-cotta.

Wow! This looks great! Just a suggestion for next time: you may want to use magnets in a Tarheel Ants style to connect the acrylic. It makes cleaning and moving in and out very easy. May I ask where you bought the Firebrick? I plan on making a Formicarium myself. Here are the crude designs, but the explanation helps compensate for it. It's a bit of a read though haha. http://www.formicult...-for-tiny-ants/
I would definitely move the Camponotus into this. It would be better for their first hibernation.


I purchase my k23 firebrick from Clay Planet @Major. It has a lot of pottery supplies too, like terra-cotta.
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#42 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 21 2019 - 9:50 AM

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Reviving this thread! How did this formicarium work out in real time? Update, please!
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#43 Offline Yosigi - Posted June 21 2019 - 10:50 AM

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The formicarium seemed to work well, but the queen never laid after hibernation and died about 6 weeks after I took them out.  I've made some smaller nests in the meantime, and I wanna make another large one with smaller tunnels and chambers for a multi queen Myrmica colony, since those will be flying for me soon.  I did catch roughly 40 Camponotus queens this season so far, so once they've gotten enough workers I can move one of them in; the rest I don't sell will get other nests once I've made them.


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My current colonies:

1x 4 queen Myrmica colony, roughly 30 workers

1x 3 queen Myrmica colony, roughly 20 workers

2x Tetramorium Immigrans colony, one with probably 500 workers and the second has around 200

1x Pogonomyrmex Occidentalis colony from THA, about 40 workers

 

My 1st firebrick formicarium: http://www.formicult...ck-formicarium/

#44 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 21 2019 - 10:55 AM

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Thanks! Would love to see photos of the nests you made when you get a chance.
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#45 Offline Dukagora - Posted June 23 2019 - 7:23 PM

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Has anyone tried K26 firebrick? I just finished carving a k23 but still need to gather some stuff to finish it. It really is quite soft and I was surprised when I was washing it after carving as it was soft enough that I was rubbing tiny pieces of it off with my fingers. didn't even realize it until checked. I just thought I had a lot of loose debris from carving.

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#46 Offline J20m83 - Posted July 4 2022 - 6:46 PM

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Great tutorial. I will have to share my experience when I figure it out. Thanks!
Great tutorial. I will have to share my experience when I figure it out. Thanks!
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