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[Bryce]

Ants 4 fun that's a fantastic set up!!!

[Ants4fun]

Thanks. There's a bunch of Lasius neoniger queens in the cardboard boxes in case anyone was wondering.

[RapaNui]

Here are my 32 colonies from 22 different species.

 

Buniapone Amblyops

Camponotus Lasiselene

Camponotus Singularis

Camponotus sp. (China)

Cataglyphis sp.

Cerapachys Sulcinodis

Diacamma Rugosum

Dolichoderus sp.

Formica Yessensis

Gnamptogenys Bicolor

Harpegnathos Venator

Messor Barbarus

Messor Valentinae

Myopias Conicara

Myrmicaria Brunnea

Odontomachus Monticola

Odontomachus Rixosus

Oecophylla Smaradigna

Pogonomyrmex Barbatus

Polyrhachis Sp.

Solenopsis Invicta

Tetraponera Rufonigra

 

 

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[yen_saw]

So clean and tidy! Lucky ants living on 6-star hotel. Mine are living on a cheap hut next to a street compare to you guys 

[Antboy888]

I'm liking those set-ups RapaNui, did you build them yourself?

[Barristan]

Not my room: http://krungkuene.or...usniger002.html

 

I hope drtrmiller won't have any nightmares this night because of so many tubes

Edited by Barristan, March 5 2016 - 1:39 PM.

[dspdrew]

You guys should have just added on to the already existing thread linked in the pinned handy link topic.

 

http://www.formicult...your-ant-areas/

 

With Bryce's permission, I can move all of these posts over to that thread, to keep things organized.

[Bryce]

You bet.

[RapaNui]

I'm liking those set-ups RapaNui, did you build them yourself?

 

All setups are standard setups used in China.

Single, double and quadruple acrylic test tube setups and medium and large plaster nests, with cover glass. 

 

The materials/decorations on the outworlds are by me.

[drtrmiller]

Thanks. Now I'm going to have nightmares of tube monsters and the curly-haired mad scientist surreptitiously orchestrating my demise on the other side of the blacked-out window.

[James C. Trager]

You all have some really fantastic set-ups for your ant keeping. My glory days of ant keeping are past. I usually have a few baby colonies of local species at any one time, then let them go. I try to spend most of my anting time (limited by job and other constraints) in the field, sometimes with camera in hand.

Good ant photography, not easy.

Psst, Mercutia, check your spelling on novaeborcensis - missing syllable. Actually, I first learned it as noveboracensis, too, and it's still that way in older publications. When Barry Bolton produced the world catalog of ants (now updated constantly online as antcat.org), he changed it to the original published version of the name, which we're now using. Why he didn't also change C. pennsylvanicus back to the first published form pensylvanicus, I don't know, but I'm going with it.

[dspdrew]

[Leo]

        i only have a weedy cabinet 

[sgheaton]

 

This is where I build stuff... yeah, that's my coffee table.

 

And yet not a single sign of coffee....

I've really been curious about Drews set up. Big tanks, cylinders, jars, containers, cabinets...I've really wondered where it all goes. Right next to the crate of records is where!

[dspdrew]

 

 

This is where I build stuff... yeah, that's my coffee table.

 

And yet not a single sign of coffee....

I've really been curious about Drews set up. Big tanks, cylinders, jars, containers, cabinets...I've really wondered where it all goes. Right next to the crate of records is where!

 

 

Haha I don't drink coffee. That apartment was the worst... so cluttered and tiny. I have a real work bench now.

[Jamie_Garrison]

This is my desk at work... A lot gets done (hehe) but I am new and learning a lot every day.. thanks to all the knowledge on here...

 

 

Oh yeah, My GF said hello and that I can turn one of our garages into a Bug room  ... Oh and if I thought i was doing to her kitchen what Drew has done to his I need to find a new interest....  not sure if she was talking about ants or her... 

 

[Jamie_Garrison]

Drew where do you get those containers at.... just a link ill order the capital s word out of them