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[UtahAnts]

From personal experience selling complete ant setups (a colony and nest) to beginners, a person getting into the hobby usually has a budget of no more than $100. Experienced ant keepers will likely spend less for ants they can already find, and more for formicariums.

 

I would be interested high-quality acrylic nests.

[antgallery]

For ant colonies it depends on the size of the colony and species for me but I typically won't go over $50 for a colony. The naturalistic modular nest sounds interesting. Would it be made of wood? I think for someone to be interested in a nest though they would have to see pictures of it and know how it works.

[PaigeX]

I'm low on money so most my setups are test tubes and tubs. I had to buy Ytong to make my own nests as its way cheaper than buying one. I also can make to the colony size. over all I think it costs about $20-55 per colony housing once nest is made. 
I'm with Antgallery on the $50 budget. something that has a Nest and outworld. and not a crappy limited space nest that won't even last half a year in some cases.