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zepedro: Island Terrarium (21. Mär 2012 03:32)

Hello there guys!

I had an idea for a new terrarium containing ants and carnivore plants. Here is the design I made with Google Sketch:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg269/scaled.php?server=269&filename=terrario.png&res=medium

The idea is to have two islands separate by water. On an island there would be a colony of Lasius Niger and on the other there would be a couple of carnivore plants. If the colony grows too large I'll make a small bridge to reduce the ant's numbers!


So what do you think of the idea?

Markus: Re: Island Terrarium (21. Mär 2012 10:02)

Did you hold carnivores before?
They often need much light and much water in the air,
especially the high temperatures could make Problems!
And reducing the ants could be a problem to,
there could die too much or not enough...
And when the colony got access to soil, they will burrow fast!

Over that I have bad experience with islands,
the colonys, I had in such a water construction,
didn't need to be reduced, because they didn't become bigger!

zepedro: Re: Island Terrarium (22. Mär 2012 02:09)

Why didn't they become bigger? The formicarium part will be a glass box filled with soil, won't make a difference from any other formicarium besides the fact that it's surrounded by water outside the glass!

Notraymond: Re: Island Terrarium (29. Apr 2012 22:56)

I doubt carnivorous plants will do well in there, what type of conditions will you keep the terrarium in? What type of plants are you going to use?