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[Bearcoon]

How Exactly do i set up the heating and Moisture Systems in a Formicarium?

Edited by dspdrew, March 12 2015 - 2:46 PM.
Fixed title to be more relevant to the topic

[Ants4fun]

It would depend on the formicarium. Ideally you want one part moist, and one part dry, one part warm, and the other part a bit cooler. It also depends on the ant. 

[Bearcoon]

What do you think id do for a Harvester ant?

[Mercutia]

1. Are you using a preexisting formicarium or are you making your own?

2. If you are making your own, what are you making it out of?

[Bearcoon]

Making My Own out of Clay and fiberglass with a Foraging area uptop

 

this is for a Pogonomyrmex.

[Crystals]

Heating can be as simple as a 15 watt heat cable meant for reptiles, assumign hte room temperature is low enough to require it.

 

For moisture - in the nest all you need is a higher humidity.  There are a couple hundred ways to manage that.

The picture thread shows a few ways: http://www.formicult...-and-outworlds/

Most involve a damp section in the nest, or evaporating water.