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[M_Ants]

Lot's of threads about this already but making one anyways. I want the top 5 most important ant keeping equipment I should buy. Already have test tubes and normal tweezers. Going to get an aspirator. What are the other must have things? Special tweezers? 

[Solenoqueen]

Black light setup for sure. It's quite an investment depending on who you buy from, but it reaps really good results when done at the right conditions. If you want to go even further up in quality, I believe Mercury Vapor lights (though even more expensive and super fragile) are even more viable, and do God's work from what I hear from my friends in the professional field.

[ANTdrew]

-reverse close tweezers
- byFormica liquid feeders
- macro lenses for your phone camera
- aspirator
- Fluon

Free: any good bird feather for brushing ants off stuff. This is helpful if you have really big colonies. Can help manually moving ants, too.

[DDD101DDD]

-water

-fluon

-cotton

-some sort of biggish container

-gloves(especially with stinging species)

[Manitobant]

These are my picks, but are in no particular order:

-Fluon
-Byformica feeders
-Syringes
-long tweezers
-snap cap vials

[TechAnt]

Tar Heel Ant formicaria

[M_Ants]

What do people use feather weight and reverse close tweezers for?

[TechAnt]

Feather weight are good for picking up ants / giving food.