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[Gregory2455]

... which can hold water well, but takes forever to soak up the water.

 
That's a good description of Hydrostone.

Interesting. The Hydrostone that Ray Mendez showed us readily soaked up water.

It does, just painfully slowly.

[dean_k]

 

Gregory2455 is a younger version of dspdrew.

 

 

You are following his footsteps. Give it 10 or 20 years and you will have a house full with ant test tubes, spiders, lizards, and some aliens as well as pink bacteria.

[dspdrew]

I wish I had a house. I live in more of a glorified cardboard box.

[dean_k]

Well, you live in CA which is a highly congested city.

 

In Canada, some condos are even more expensive than houses themselves. Even in my city, condo is about the same price as house.

Edited by dean_k, February 25 2015 - 11:48 AM.

[Miles]

And here is a bare experimental nest module showing off its nice sandy walls. I figured out a way to get sand to stick very firmly to hydrostone, and have explained it in chat, and will show it later on this thread.

Were you going to do this?

[Gregory2455]

 

And here is a bare experimental nest module showing off its nice sandy walls. I figured out a way to get sand to stick very firmly to hydrostone, and have explained it in chat, and will show it later on this thread.

Were you going to do this?

 

Yeah, sorry this was a while ago. I should be bringing this thread back to life within a month or so.

[Miles]

 

 

And here is a bare experimental nest module showing off its nice sandy walls. I figured out a way to get sand to stick very firmly to hydrostone, and have explained it in chat, and will show it later on this thread.

Were you going to do this?

 

Yeah, sorry this was a while ago. I should be bringing this thread back to life within a month or so.

 

Alright. I look forward to reading what you found on that subject.

[Tspivey16]

I have stuck sand to the walls in a grout formicarium that I have made as well

 

[Foogoo]

Really curious to see any T0 ideas. Details of how you get the sand to stick would be helpful too! How did you make the tunnels? Modeling clay or something different?

[Tspivey16]

Yeah, I used clay- using Crystals method with a frame. To get the sand to stick - After the mold was done, I brushed a very thin liquid layer of grout into the tunnels, and then filled with sand. I let it dry and dumped the rest of the sand out before attaching to the glass.