hello,
A new product that will be most useful to develop colonies from semiclaustral ant queens like Myrmica (or for queens with first workers or to observe stay-small colony like Leptothorax) will be a very small ,low cost, plaster nests just big enough for one queen and between 50 and 200 workers (depending on the size of the ants) and fitting in a low cost mini bassin . So those who want to start new colony from single queens purchase from the store or that they collect themselves may try with 3 or 4 queens at the same time to have more chance of success .
I know ANTSTORE have very nice mini acrylic nest-arena but :
1) The light goes in by every sides.
2) Even covered the ants seems no to like it at all.
3) I doubt that the humidity level will be enough for ants like Myrmica rubra.
4)I would like to know of successful, flourishing colony developing in this sort of nest.
Is it possible to let me know of successful colony DEVELOPING (not only surviving) in such acrylic nests?