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[Swirlysnowflake]

Would you buy wooden founding formicariums for small colonies, knowing that over time the wood will begin to rot and decompose and you will have to move the colony? (due to this, if i do end up selling these they would be cheap)

 

I’ve not really decided on a design, so this poll is not really for a specific nest, but mainly for the idea of a formicarium made out of wood

 

The formicarium would have a acrylic/plexiglass cover, and would be watered through a test tube connected to the outside of the wooden block (this is not definite, but most likely what i will do)

Edited by Swirlysnowflake, November 16 2020 - 8:55 PM.

[Zeiss]

Be careful when you try to post something, if you click it more than once it will post multiple times.

 

You don't need to sell the formicaria cheap just because they'd decompose over time.  Charge for at least the materials and for labor.

 

Also, do some testing with the ants in the formicaria before you try to sell them.

[Swirlysnowflake]

Be careful when you try to post something, if you click it more than once it will post multiple times.

 

You don't need to sell the formicaria cheap just because they'd decompose over time.  Charge for at least the materials and for labor.

 

Also, do some testing with the ants in the formicaria before you try to sell them.

yep, planning to buy some camponotus queens to test it out 

[Swirlysnowflake]

Eh, depends on the wood. Wood rots and ants can chew thur it. 

I'm going to use a hardwood called whitewood

hopefully its not too easy for ants to chew through, so ill see when i test it out 

[Barristan]

Eh, depends on the wood. Wood rots and ants can chew thur it. 

 

if you keep it dry and if it isn't already rotten most ants won't bother chewing through it, even not Camponotus. Of course if the nest is way to small they might start trying to extend it. Cork is another story...

[Kaelwizard]

There is a company that sells wooden nests, and according to a video about them, as long as you keep water out of the nest, it shouldn't rot. Even any sort of humidity. That means no water tower even.

[KitsAntVa]

there is a type of wood that can be finished, polished, glossed whatever the foranto wood nests make. camponotus cannot chew through those and i'm a really big fan of his nests, i would like to see the design but i may pm you once you start selling them because I most likely will buy those.

[MinigunL5]

I don't like wood nests.

[Ants_Dakota]

I don't like wood nests.

carpender ants do, at least if you surround the nest with liquid rubber.

[Kaelwizard]

I think that they make some of the nicest looking nests.

[KitsAntVa]

https://canada-ant-c...st-large-size-1very nice nests

[AleeGuy]

*moved to "wooden ant formicarium?"*

Edited by AleeGuy, November 17 2020 - 9:12 AM.

[Kaelwizard]

*moved to "wooden ant formicarium?"*

What?

[Ants_Dakota]

 

*moved to "wooden ant formicarium?"*

What?

 

he moved the comment to the topic wooden ant formicarium, i think