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[ANTdrew]

I guess, but then you won’t see the ants in the nest.

[eea]

After I seal all the gaps, would this works as a lid and an out world?

 

The container could get scratched up or stained over time from sand in the nest or food stains, overall this is good looking design.

[Voidley]

Here is a wooden nest that I made from a sawed-in-half piece of wood, into which I then dremeled out chambers. It is currently housing a small colony of Camponotus chromaiodes. Although the nest is a bit large for them, they already seem much happier in a wooden nest compared to a test tube, and hopefully they will grow into it. Attached I have a DIY outworld connected via some vinyl tubing. It's super cool seeing how there is one worker that almost always guards the entrance connected by tubing. The outworld itself I made out of stepped display box. I flipped the lid upside-down and added a hole covered with wire mesh. The main rock formation inside is inspired by some THA outworlds. I created it by breaking up a failed plaster nest into chunks, hot gluing them into a desired shape, and then covering all the seams with thick Perfect Cast applied with my finger. I'm not sure if I'll use this method in the future since it took quite a bit of time, but I'm pretty happy with how this one came out.