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Started By DVD , May 12 2020 1:40 PM

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#1 Offline DVD - Posted May 12 2020 - 1:40 PM

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IMG_20200511_124639.jpg diy Tetramorium plaster nest with water tower.


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#2 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted May 12 2020 - 1:49 PM

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diy Tetramorium plaster nest with water tower.

That's amazing! How exactly did you make it? (I'm especially interested in the water tower.)


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

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Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#3 Offline DVD - Posted May 13 2020 - 12:06 PM

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diy Tetramorium plaster nest with water tower.

That's amazing! How exactly did you make it? (I'm especially interested in the water tower.) i use a syringe needle to filling the water tower. :D

 


#4 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted May 13 2020 - 12:12 PM

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Looks kind of like a Tarheel Ants product. Great design  (y)


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#5 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted May 13 2020 - 12:40 PM

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diy Tetramorium plaster nest with water tower.

That's amazing! How exactly did you make it? (I'm especially interested in the water tower.) i use a syringe needle to filling the water tower. :D

 

 

:thinking:

 

I meant things like:

 

What sort of a mold did you use for the chambers?

How did you make the water tower?

What container did you use?

 

I asked because I may try to replicate it.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#6 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted May 13 2020 - 2:34 PM

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diy Tetramorium plaster nest with water tower.

That's amazing! How exactly did you make it? (I'm especially interested in the water tower.) i use a syringe needle to filling the water tower. :D

 

 

:thinking:

 

I meant things like:

 

What sort of a mold did you use for the chambers?

How did you make the water tower?

What container did you use?

 

I asked because I may try to replicate it.

 

Exactly the same. where do you get that mesh from for the water tower?


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#7 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted May 13 2020 - 2:38 PM

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Looks kind of like a Tarheel Ants product. Great design  (y)

Yeah, it does.


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#8 Offline DVD - Posted May 13 2020 - 2:42 PM

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diy Tetramorium plaster nest with water tower.

That's amazing! How exactly did you make it? (I'm especially interested in the water tower.) i use a syringe needle to filling the water tower. :D

 

 

:thinking:

 

I meant things like:

 

What sort of a mold did you use for the chambers?

How did you make the water tower?

What container did you use?

 

I asked because I may try to replicate it. i use clay for making the chambers.i use a curver container.i bought mesh and petri disches from aliexpress,i melt the mesh on the petri dish.sand coating with white sand.

 


#9 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted May 13 2020 - 2:44 PM

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i am not seeing any words in your replies, just gonna add. not sure if it is on my end or not.


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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

My Ant Shop Here I have PPQ-526 permits to ship ants nationwide

Attention Ant-Keepers in South Dakota! Join the SoDak(Society Of Dakotan Ant Keepers)

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#10 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted May 13 2020 - 2:47 PM

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i am not seeing any words in your replies, just gonna add. not sure if it is on my end or not.

Same here.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#11 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted May 13 2020 - 2:49 PM

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Yeah, same.


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#12 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted May 13 2020 - 3:40 PM

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Same.


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#13 Online ANTdrew - Posted May 13 2020 - 5:47 PM

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Very informative.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#14 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted May 13 2020 - 6:44 PM

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He replies in the quotes.


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#15 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted May 13 2020 - 8:32 PM

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Oh ya, your right.


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