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[FelixTheAnter]

I currently have about 35 young colonies in test tube setups with tiny outworlds (like really tiny, maybe an inch diameter)...just big enough to make it easier to feed them and give them a place to deposit their trash.

But I still haven't figured out the best way to remove the trash...an aspirator seems like it would be easiest, but I really don't want to be breathing in all that stuff. What do you guys do to clean out your outworlds, both big and small?

[TacticalHandleGaming]

Q-tips with a bit of water. Grabs up most junk like seeds, old small insects bits, etc. 

[FelixTheAnter]

Q-tips with a bit of water. Grabs up most junk like seeds, old small insects bits, etc.

Brilliant. I love this forum! Thank you. So simple, and yet I never would have thought of it myself

[mantisgal]

Q-tips with a bit of water. Grabs up most junk like seeds, old small insects bits, etc.

GASP I CAN ACCESS ALL THOSE THINGS.

Thx for the timely thread

[MysticNanitic]

I use one of those little keyboard vacuums for bigger messes in bigger spaces.

[ANTdrew]

I use an aspirator.

[Skwiggledork]

I just use tweezers. If it's a smaller mess than I can deal with, with those, then I just ignore it. lol

[futurebird]

I use a paint brush and long long tweezers. I also have a tiny dustpan kinda like this:

[ANTdrew]

If you have a huge colony, you can only clean when they’re hibernating.

[TestSubjectOne]

My colonies do a good job of collecting their trash in piles which I use tweezers or a spoon to empty periodically.

[MysticNanitic]

My colonies do a good job of collecting their trash in piles which I use tweezers or a spoon to empty periodically.

 

I give mine lost of praise whenever they put trash where I'd prefer it, I'm also considering a worker of the month bulletin board

[ANTdrew]

My colonies do a good job of collecting their trash in piles which I use tweezers or a spoon to empty periodically.

I give mine lost of praise whenever they put trash where I'd prefer it, I'm also considering a worker of the month bulletin board

Sticker chart?

[olookitsme]

My colonies do a good job of collecting their trash in piles which I use tweezers or a spoon to empty periodically.

my little colony just got the hang of doing this.

[olookitsme]

 

My colonies do a good job of collecting their trash in piles which I use tweezers or a spoon to empty periodically.

 

I give mine lost of praise whenever they put trash where I'd prefer it, I'm also considering a worker of the month bulletin board

 

will it be small enough to fit inside their nest, so they can glance at it when passing by?

[mantisgal]

I use a paint brush and long long tweezers. I also have a tiny dustpan kinda like this:

I died because you showed me this. Did you make this thing?

[Antkeeper01]

 

 

My colonies do a good job of collecting their trash in piles which I use tweezers or a spoon to empty periodically.

I give mine lost of praise whenever they put trash where I'd prefer it, I'm also considering a worker of the month bulletin board

Sticker chart?

 

what kind of prizes?

[Kaelwizard]

My colonies do a good job of collecting their trash in piles which I use tweezers or a spoon to empty periodically.

I give mine lost of praise whenever they put trash where I'd prefer it, I'm also considering a worker of the month bulletin board

Sticker chart?

what kind of prizes?

Only the finest cuts of mealworm.

[MysticNanitic]

 

 

 

 

My colonies do a good job of collecting their trash in piles which I use tweezers or a spoon to empty periodically.

I give mine lost of praise whenever they put trash where I'd prefer it, I'm also considering a worker of the month bulletin board

Sticker chart?

what kind of prizes?

Only the finest cuts of mealworm.

 

Pleasing their boss (god?) should be reward enough!

[ConcordAntman]

I use a paint brush and long long tweezers. I also have a tiny dustpan kinda like this:

Now I’ve seen everything. A pooper scooper for ants!