ANTSTORE World of Ants

[SteveUK28]

I got mine first time and as i said dude.. its very easy.. and fun .. as long as you dont do what i did and almost take ur thumb off.. i have another scar now All good tho

[ant dude]

hey......when ive completed it i will try to get some pics of the ytong to show how it looks......

thanks guys for your support steve i'm not so clumsy like u lol

[JimmyVe]

I made a few nests myself lately and still i'm looking to improve them. I like them like they are now, not very pretty but easy for use. But i think they could be better.
Mostly the first one you make sucks. Its gets better after a few.

[Phasmid]

Does anyone know where I could get ytong as a powder that you can use like plaster?

Thanks

[miszt]

Ytong's are made from areated concrete, so I would expect that you could make it yourself, using a very fast setting concrete, and some way to add bubbles, pherhaps a Soda stream would work, I've wondered this myself, and thats the only conclusion I could come to

another possibility, would be to use something that produces gas bubbles, like Yeast, but this could cause other problems, again I havent tried it

Experiment just do it outside lol

[JimmyVe]

Hmm... here in Belgium they are so cheap that it is useless to try to make them yourself.

[miszt]

true, they are cheap here aswell, but it wuld be nice to be able to make nice complex nests using liquid concrete and plastercine, as you do with Plaster of Paris

[Phasmid]

On an American forum they were talking about a sort of concrete that when you add the water to it it starts to bubble and continues to do so as it sets, so you are left with areated concrete nest. Apprently you can use it like plaster.

[JimmyVe]

In deed that would be nice.
Never heard of it before, maybe you can ask the guys that where discussing it.

[Phasmid]

I done a bit o research, and it looks like this stuff, called hydrostone by the members of the other forum, is made by mixing cement with a matal that reacts with water to make bubbles such as aluminium powder.

[miszt]

ah k, sounds interesting, will take a look into this, good way of doing it, allot of diffrent things you could use, worth making sure that Aluminium powder doesnt create any nasty bi-products

[SteveUK28]

Jimmy any chance you could show me a pic of the Ytong u have your Substitutus in please?

[JimmyVe]

It's the same as you see on page one (almost).




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Thanks !

[SteveUK28]

ok.. do u have a pic of a worker.. next to the queen.. i need to compare

[JimmyVe]

Yes i have.
Here you go.




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