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[Connectimyrmex]

A month ago I put my Myrmica sp. queen into one of my smaller terrariums, with the terrarium serving as an outworld. Rather than staying in the tube, she left and dug a hole in the moss. A week later, the entire terrarium was covered with freshly-dug soil and dead springtail exoskeletons. I was forced to remove my queen from the terrarium when mold began to grow on the dead springtails. Now that my Myrmica queen has her first worker and is in a smaller tube, I kind of want to make another terrarium outworld for her, but I still am concerned that they would move into the terrarium again. Is there a way to keep them from moving into the terrarium?
NOTE: I can not dry out the terrarium (for the plants' and springtails' sake). I can always empty out the terrarium and let them forage in an empty area, but I'd like to give them something natural.

[Batspiderfish]

Humid soil is many times more preferable to a colony than a test tube. Sometimes dry soil is too.

[Connectimyrmex]

Thanks! 

I'm going to try to keep the terrarium fairly dry (but not too dry). It used to have condensation all over.

[dermy]

This is one of the many reasons why I like either completely bare foraging areas or at most just something with a water tube [if they nest in it oh well it's just a tube not the whole foraging area]. It also helps with Cleaning.

[Hunter]

idk if it would work like queen bees but can you block the hole so it is biganofe for the workers but not the queen

[Ants_Texas]

There's nothing you can really do. You can use a bare outworld, or you can use an outworld with substrate that can't be dug in. Terrariums should be for natural setups.