von gonzobey » 5. Jun 2004 09:06
Hello Synapse and welcome here!
I just startet another thread in "questions for beginners" how to fill the ant farm. There you can find all informations...
Now to the other questions:
- As fouraging area you can use the ant box, ant island or a glas basin (which kind you choose is a matter of taste). Our Antstore-Articles can be easeliy connect by an 10mm diameter flexible tube. If you choose a glas basin you must go to the glazier and let you make a 10 mm hole into the glas basin.
You can fill the fouraging area like you want with sand, accessoriers... please don´t humudify the area, because you don´t want to digg the ants there.
- You can see the tunnels, some clearly some not so clear, because sometimes sand is at the discs. I also have Lasius niger in a ant farm and I can see enough.
- I can´t say who long a ever growing colony fit in the ant farm standard. At the moment I have a colony with nearly 30 workern in it and I think this farm is suitable for more than 200, but I don´t know it by expirience.
But allways no problem with the ant farm standard. There a two connecting possebilities, so the formicarium can grow with the size of the colony.
- As needful accessories I would recommend you a pipette (just written in the other thread) and a special tweeze, which we call in german "Federstahlpinzette". With this one you can´t destroy the ants by catching them. I often need this one for my experiments and I´m very contentend.
I hope that I answered all you quetions so that this would helped you forward.
Best regards
Bianca