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Instructions For Building Artificial Ant Nest
Artificial Ant Nest
Plaster nest for different ant species. Necessary material: Plaster, modeling
clay, plastic tubes, rubber mat, wooden frame, sheet of pane, plastic terrarium,
marbled lacquer.
The rubber mat (1) is placed on an even surface with the sheet of pane (2)
right in the middle. Then the wooden frame (3) needs to be put around the
sheet of pane. Out of the modeling clay (4) you need to form small square
blocks that have to be arranged on the pane according to the drawing. The
individual blocks are connected to those adjoining through the plastic tubes
(5) that are pressed into the individual blocks. A wider block (marked (W)
in the drawing) is not linked to the adjacent ones and serves as water collecting
tank. The plaster is mixed according to the directions and poured into the
mould. When the plaster has become solid, the complete construction needs
to be turned and the rubber mat removed. Plaster mixture between the rubber
mat and the pane should be removed carefully with a knife. After removal
of the sheet of pane, the modeling clay - still soft - is scraped out (A)
with a spoon. The rubber tubes are taken out with a small pair of pliers
or tweezers (B).
Then the finished formicary is freed of the remaining modeling clay with
cold water. For those ant species that are able to bite through the plaster
the nest should be painted with marbled lacquer. The pane is cleaned and
placed into the depression formed through the cast. Into the side of the
formicary a hole of the diameter of a plastic tube needs to be drilled. Then
a rubber tube is inserted and connected to a plastic terrarium serving as
food reservoir. In order to keep the plaster humid, you may pour water into
the big chamber. Thus those chambers close to the water chamber contain more
humidity than those that are further away.
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