Attitude and care: depends on the kind of ant which can be held. You find further information for ant attitude on our side: www.antstore.net ANTSTORE World OF Ants Instructions for ANTSTORE starters set 1 - winter sleep - nest cleaning - vacation care - food and humidification - dangers (fungus growth and mites) - technical terms/encyclopedia - ant data bases etc.. Now we wish much joy with the starter set 1 and a good development then of the ant colony living in it. Its Antstore team guidance ANTSTORE starter the set 1 was conceived in such a way that in this assortment all important elements are contained into the ant attitude to the entrance. Contents: 1) = 1x mini ant farm 2) = 1x ant arena with cover 3) = 1x 0.25 m hose 10/14 4) = 2x rubber plug for 8 mm of opening 5) = 1x 120g sand/loam mixture 6) = 1x fodder cup 30mm 7) = 1x spring steel tweezers 8) = 1x plastic pipette 9) = 1x funnel 10) = 1x 10ml honey solution 1.) parts make sure you whether all parts are present. 2.) the bag with the sand/loam mixture (5) and these knead structure taking you well through, so that no lumps are more present. Now you fill the ant farm (1) with the help of the funnel (9) with the sand/loam mixture (5). If it comes nevertheless to lump formation, then you can form also a piece paper to a coffee filter bag form and fill in so the sand. Moisten the sand with something water. Note: Please only dampen, but no aquarium from it make. Helpfully here the pipette is (8) as well as the funnel (9). Connect now the ant farm (1) and the ant arena (2) with the hose (3). Lock now for both still open connections at the ant farm the (1) and the ant arena (2) with the rubber plugs (4). Give now a few drop to the honey solution (10) to the fodder cup (6) and place these into the ant arena (2). Finished! 3.) ants now can bring you your ant colony into the plant. There are 3 possibilities: 1.) the colony with transport container (if the transport container is smaller than the ant arena) to the ant arena give and wait to the animals themselves from the transport container move. 2.) to connect the transport container with the ant farm over a hose. So the animals can likewise move in peace. 3.) the animals from the transport container by paper or the spring steel tweezers (8) take and then into the plant give. Note: Make sure please that you take also the eggs (small white points) as well as the brood also into the plant. 4.) cleaning ants quite immaculate animals, i.e. are that they transport the wastes themselves from the nest into the ant arena. They must remove only these heaps of waste from the nest. If in the farm Unrat should collect nevertheless, then this can be eliminated with tweezers. The nest should not be kept too wet in the long term.