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#1 Offline Huch - Posted August 6 2015 - 6:51 PM

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I came across this on youtube:

 

 

I dunno if he bought it or built it, but it looks cool.



#2 Offline Huch - Posted August 6 2015 - 7:02 PM

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Found where he got the fancy flat ones:  http://www.antstore....orld---202.html

 

I didn't even know that place existed until now.

 

There is a picture posted of what looks like the hydration system, but I have no idea how it could work:  http://www.antstore....30x20-5278.html


Edited by Huch, August 6 2015 - 7:06 PM.


#3 Offline Herdo - Posted August 6 2015 - 7:58 PM

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Yea I had a whole room designed around AntStore products.  Then I found out they don't ship to the US.


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#4 Offline grimff5 - Posted August 6 2015 - 8:06 PM

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wow this website sells some great stuff



#5 Offline Cohars - Posted August 7 2015 - 12:27 AM

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The equipments sold by this website are great, but never, ever buy ants there ! (You would be lucky if they arrived alive and even more if they lived more than one week)



#6 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted August 7 2015 - 2:43 AM

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The equipments sold by this website are great, but never, ever buy ants there ! (You would be lucky if they arrived alive and even more if they lived more than one week)

That does not sound like a problem with them, that sounds like a shipping live animals problem.



#7 Offline Cohars - Posted August 7 2015 - 3:44 AM

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Their ant colonies and queens have mites quite often,  are underfed (a camponotus nicobarensis I received had probably not been fed for months), and are very often not fertilized.
The packaging is almost nonexistent, ants are basically unprotected. Of course colonies are not warranted at all except in Germany (because they could be sued there).
 



#8 Offline Nes187 - Posted August 7 2015 - 4:51 AM

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Hopefully once the Europe/Canada freetrade agreement is finished they will ship equipment over here,usa might be in on that deal too but I can't remember forsure

#9 Offline Jonathan21700 - Posted August 7 2015 - 9:35 AM

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Why does every German ant keeper have Messor barbarus ???


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#10 Offline Nes187 - Posted August 7 2015 - 8:02 PM

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Does anyone know what the thing all the ants are in? Looks like a little greenhouse or something

#11 Offline Cohars - Posted August 8 2015 - 1:47 AM

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It is an aquarium lying on its back instead of its bottom.



#12 Offline Nes187 - Posted August 8 2015 - 5:37 AM

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Actually looks like it could be, with the tepature gauge and the grass look around the sides I figiured it must be for growing herbs or something in your house maybe,




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