ANTSTORE World of Ants

[mvannunen]

Here you can read and most of all see my progress.

[mvannunen]

found a great piece of wood for my basin

And you can see how advanced my cooking skills are

[ratgreen]

thats pretty sweet

[corydoras]

As you already know, i was waiting for this

It looks great! But what are the little "shades" in the nest? Little holes or is it painted?

[ratgreen]

im guessing there drill holes, as it makes it easier to chip out with drill holes

[mvannunen]

well i thought it looks better with a little structure at the walls, first I was making it al smooth. Butt it looks 2 sterile this way it looks a little more natural

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Post from 10:15pm

no drilling holes only uses a screw driver!!

I also have 2 be honest I made 2 ytong blocks, as you can see 1 has a sharp angle the other has a curve.

the one with the Angle also the one with the holes was 2 big made a miss calculation thought my basin was 35 cm x25x25 butt is 35cm x 25x20.:S

[corydoras]

The ants could also store their eggs in this, if its deep enough.

[mvannunen]

yeah they could if they want. well i thought it was pretty cool.

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Post from 10:24pm

also gonna put some needles in there from trees.

And I hope thomie gets our ants today then by the end of the week i have also some ants in there

[corydoras]

I first wanted to buy needles, but they are quite expensive. So i went to a forest last week and gathered some needles and some nice fir cones!
I havent set up my basin yet, because im still waiting for the PTFE i have ordered yesterday at Antstore.

[mvannunen]

ok cool put also some pictures in the english part !!

[JimmyVe]

Good job with that farm Mike, i think the ants are going to like it very much.

[mvannunen]

Just got my ants from thomie.
Sadly all the workers were dead on arrivel.
But the queen still lives. but no brood . Maybe she ate the brood...?

I'm thinking of waking her up in a few weeks and try too feed her with cotton swab and putt on 1 honey/suger and the other protein jelly. And present this too her so she can reach it. I think because she already had some workers she already became a stil sitting egg laying machine and won't go out for food. So I'll try too hand feed her

Anyone comments or experience in this?

[thomie]

Just put some food inside of the test tube, as far as possible so the food stays dry and it's easy to clean the test tube. When i feed my ants inside a test tube I'll put a little drip of honey water inside the test tube.

[SteveUK28]

Ohh Very very nice... I thinks i might have to do somat like this myself Cheers for the idea dood

[mvannunen]

yeah but will the queen go get it herelf that what i'm worried about....
Because in first without workers or brood she does everything herself, but if she had workers and brood she doesn't do anything she just sit and lay eggs.