Pics of Ant Enclosures?

[pimpin_posey]

I would love to see some pics. on ant enclosures. and any tips on making a good safe escape free zone. and where i can get some ants to start with. Being how as they grow to large numbers fast do you have to ever re house or wut?

 

[zinto]

This is how I do it: http://insected.arizona.edu/antrear.htm

 

[Arietans]

That was quite informative. Thank you.

 

[zinto]

Blacklighting for queens seems to be effective for most. Tie up a white sheet and hang a blacklight in front of it - you'll get tons of visitors. The enclosures need to be cleaned out when they finally wear out the fluon/oil layer, or when they build up too much trash. It can be rather time consuming to do that change too.

 

[Ant Worker]

I use the test tubes usually sometimes other things like just a container with moist cotton. (I'm all out of test tubes ffs). And I got a large P. occidentalis colony in a 10 gallon aqarium 3/4 filled with dirt. ;*)
Plenty of options almost anything can be used to house ants but test tubes are the best. ;*)

 

[Gigas]

Dont know if you can be bothered to buy from this site or you could just get ideas and substitue materials, i think its pretty cool http://www.antstore.net/shop/

 

[Tleilaxu]

Dont know if you can be bothered to buy from this site or you could just get ideas and substitue materials, i think its pretty cool http://www.antstore.net/shop/

A cool site but the ants seem very pricey also in the US I dont think I can get there stuff.

 

[bug_dude_1]

no shipping to us

yeah, that place wont ship outside of the european union