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[Demomyrmex]

I made one of those DIY grout formicariums. Before adding the grout, I added newspaper at the bottom for making a little nest for the queen, her eggs and the nanitics. It might damage the hardened grout structure to remove it and then remove the paper. They have just outgrown their test tube as they try to escape when I feed them. I made a hole into that nest so if they could slowly tear through the newspaper and bring it to the surface, then I could remove it from there. Will the ants do this? I've seen Pheidole do it but in those instances there was something sweet that the paper absorbed.

[ANTdrew]

Use damp sand or clay to mold chambers in the future. I think ants would dig into newspaper, but they will make a mess and probably hinder visibility a lot in the process.