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[Dbiggerstaff11]

I may be interested in buying one of these, can you PM me more information about them?

I may be interested in buying one of these, can you PM me more information about them?

[dspdrew]

I may be interested in buying one of these, can you PM me more information about them?I may be interested in buying one of these, can you PM me more information about them?

 

All the information about them is posted here (http://www.formicult...ated-3-19-2017/).

[AntswerMe]

Those are quite neat dspdrew. Interesting.

Edited by AntswerMe, May 15 2017 - 6:31 PM.

[antsrussia]

 

 

[Barristan]

Around two month ago I received a nest from a german YouTuber "Insektenprofi" as a gift. He made it out of concrete and he created a video tutorial too (however only in German): 

 

 

A few days ago, I placed it into the outworld of my Camponotus nicobarensis colony and wanted to see if they'd move in. It didn't take long until they moved into their new spacious home:

 

 

Since concrete won't store water like plaster of paris or ytong "Insektenprofi" drilled a tiny hole through which he put a cannula. On the other end, I can connect a syringe with water and moisturize one part of the upper tunnel:

 

 

 

But I did only test it once and didn't put water in the nest again. As I already said in another thread, all Camponotus I've kept so far did well without a moist nest and so does the Camponotus nicobarensis colony. They store larvae, eggs and pupae in the dry tunnels:

 

 

Aren't these ants beautiful?

 

 

Since the nest is made out of concrete it'll be impossible to destroy it so I could easily place it outside the outworld and connect it with a tube. At least until they figure out how to enhance their mandibles with adamantium...

[T.C.]

That's just a great setup and ants. Outworld is super cool too.

[Marie_ANToinette]

 

 

Aren't these ants beautiful?

 

 

 

Since the nest is made out of concrete it'll be impossible to destroy it so I could easily place it outside the outworld and connect it with a tube. At least until they figure out how to enhance their mandibles with adamantium...

Yeah... they are pretty....

 

And about them enhancing their mandibles with adamantium,

it may not be long, so watch out:

 

they're clever buggers.....

[Marie_ANToinette]

update:

 

 

  THE ANTS ARE COMING FOR ME

Edited by Marie_ANToinette, May 26 2017 - 8:09 PM.

[AntsTexas]

how about a/an animal/cat's foot ant habitat?

[kudofo]

It's finally finished! Credits to Drew for cutting the block of ytong for me and letting me steal his automatic hydration method.

I really really like this design.

[dspdrew]

 

 

 

 

[sgheaton]

that's a super clean looking founding chamber, Drew. 

[Goldsystem]

Got this off of eBay, the pheidole I'm keeping moved right in. It turned out the colony was much smaller that I thought it was so it's kinda big for them.

[smares]

materials: epoxy putty, acrylic sheet, magnets, display case for mini cars.

 

[T.C.]

That's definetly different.

[Diesel]

[Diesel]

Made with jello shot cups. Good little starter setups I will use hopefully with tetramorium

Edited by Diesel, January 30 2018 - 1:26 PM.

[smares]

Looks like an out-world with two nesting chambers? How are you ventilating it without them escaping? How do you water it?  I have been working on something similar so I am intrigued! Please share!

[Diesel]

There are 2 nesting chambers with an outworld. the middle you can see the 2 pieces of vinyl tubing that is glued to the bottom and sticks out the cover.. those have little holes in them with a piece of cotton at the bottom so that the water wicks into the surrounding grout. the covers are ventilated with little holes. i used a heated sewing needle to make them.. i gave it a trial run and hydrating does leave a little condensation on the cups for the first few hours but as it spreads into the grout and the temp evens out it goes away.

[smares]

nice, I never would have thought of hydrating in that way.