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[AntaholicAnonymous]

I wanna make a big tank with the ants living on an island in the water.

I'd like to know what species could deal with the humidity and the water itself.
I'm guessing fire ants but I already have them in another setup

[gs5248]

Well, I guess most ants that are tropical.

[Vendayn]

If you put a pump in the water to get it moving, most ants just sink instead. And if you put stuff in the water like fish or something, they can eat the ants.

 

Solenopsis invicta be probably only one not good. Most ants don't do well with moving water.

[ANTdrew]

A lot of ants like to dump their dead into water, so what might appear to drowning ants is actually just a watery graveyard.

[AntaholicAnonymous]

Maybe I just need to relax with my setup ideas but a underwater world plus a big island with ants on top is too tempting.

I could make sure the shoreline is shallow so they can't fall down into it but feel the wet sand and have an idea of what's ahead.

I wanna include a waterfall that they won't have access to cause that's asking for trouble

[ANTdrew]

I can’t wait to see it.

[Amazant]

Are you going to put a barrier between the digging medium and the water? You need to do that or else all the water will go into the substrate and make it unusable for the ants, to prevent ants from falling in duckweed is a very fast growing aquatic plants that floats and will suck up any nitrates in the water if the ants dump their bodies in the water which will help make the water clean if the ants decide to drink from the water area.

[B_rad0806]

Tanks with open water are a terrible place to put ants. What you see AntsCanada do shouldn't be replicated 

[Amazant]

Tanks with open water are a terrible place to put ants. What you see AntsCanada do shouldn't be replicated

Could you please explain, I don’t see any issues with keeping ants in open water setups, especially if they’re tropical ants that are usually around lots of water.

[Kaelwizard]

 

Tanks with open water are a terrible place to put ants. What you see AntsCanada do shouldn't be replicated

Could you please explain, I don’t see any issues with keeping ants in open water setups, especially if they’re tropical ants that are usually around lots of water.

 

Ants hate open liquids. Tropical ants only engage with water when necessary, like during a hurricane or storm. Many ants cover up any open liquids that are around the nest too.

[Amazant]

I don’t think there would be a problem if there is a dry area separated from all the water, then they would have to interact with the water at all. If there is duckweed they wouldn’t need to cover up the water since they can just walk over the plants, I don’t think ants care about water being around the nest unless it’s a threat to the tunnels and colony.