how to build a home anthill
For those readers who wish to breed house ants - laziusov these smart and funny ants (including non-food for some fish and lizards), the device provides a simple room anthill. The design fully justified, and many people use it for several years.
So, the usual three-liter glass jar with a plastic lid, with numerous holes for ventilation slot. The cover is also made two more holes. One is used for humidification and plugged stick (dozen pipettes with water) is inserted into a second glass tube
* The optimum temperature: 28-29 ° C
For this purpose, it is best to fit the tube of glass is easy to foldaway flame of a gas stove or a spirit lamp. The tube is bent in the form of the letter U. The length of U belongs to the bank, short (five centimeters) on the end with a muff of a rubber tube, cut from the outer end of the oblique, - this is the entrance to muraveprovod. It is located on the surface inside the can. Upon learning of the appointment of the entrance, the ants will not lay it!
The horizontal portion of the tube 8-10 centimeters in length. The same length and cut down U. It also is equipped with a rubber muff, which plugged the end, but the side of the hole cut - out of a glass tunnel. However, unless there is a rubber tube, you can glue the heads of several layers of paper. Just below the lateral opening (exit) horizontal cardboard circle with a diameter of 6 cm, it has a hole in the center, which muff planted on the bottom, just below the entrance. Glass U is inserted into the short end of the cap banks so that the cardboard disc in the outer wall of the ant farm on the finger, or ants perelezut on the bank and flee the room.
To laziusy do not slip and fall inside a glass tube, the tube should be a breath and then pour a little flour. The particles stick to the walls of her and prisohnut-ample support for the tenacious ant legs.
But they did not run away to the outside of the tube, the designer had to smash his head did not stop the ants or slippery or sticky ointments or odorous substances, nor urchins of wool and fiber. But the yield was still found.
Above it is planted area cardboard tube on three disks made of aluminum foil at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other and solidified droplets of glue in the tube. Foil carefully smoothed, dry rubbed, but that it is not left no wrinkles, or even fingerprints (fat on the surface should not be). Between the foil and the tube no slits, which could have an ant crawl, if you still get a hole, they need to be carefully filled with adhesive. Once the wheels are put on the tube and glue dries, you must use a soft brush, sprinkle both sides of each talcum powder or galmaninom.
Ants that dobirutsya to the first disc, it can not help but immediately fall down with a slick and at the same time on the dusty surface of the carton. So they just fell on her, and not on the table, made in small foil cups. It is best to do so: the lower circle 2 cm in diameter, the middle and the top 3 of 4 centimeters. This is in case the ant-slicker still be on the second disc: a fall from it, he can cling to the edge of the lower, and fly off to ricochet off a cardboard pad, and if the top is wider wheels, the ant will fall directly on the board. The battery of such foil insulators wean laziusov ants climb the outside of the tube on the second or third day after the opening of the hole anthill.
So, the usual three-liter glass jar with a plastic lid, with numerous holes for ventilation slot. The cover is also made two more holes. One is used for humidification and plugged stick (dozen pipettes with water) is inserted into a second glass tube
* The optimum temperature: 28-29 ° C
The horizontal portion of the tube 8-10 centimeters in length. The same length and cut down U. It also is equipped with a rubber muff, which plugged the end, but the side of the hole cut - out of a glass tunnel. However, unless there is a rubber tube, you can glue the heads of several layers of paper. Just below the lateral opening (exit) horizontal cardboard circle with a diameter of 6 cm, it has a hole in the center, which muff planted on the bottom, just below the entrance. Glass U is inserted into the short end of the cap banks so that the cardboard disc in the outer wall of the ant farm on the finger, or ants perelezut on the bank and flee the room.
To laziusy do not slip and fall inside a glass tube, the tube should be a breath and then pour a little flour. The particles stick to the walls of her and prisohnut-ample support for the tenacious ant legs.
But they did not run away to the outside of the tube, the designer had to smash his head did not stop the ants or slippery or sticky ointments or odorous substances, nor urchins of wool and fiber. But the yield was still found.
Above it is planted area cardboard tube on three disks made of aluminum foil at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other and solidified droplets of glue in the tube. Foil carefully smoothed, dry rubbed, but that it is not left no wrinkles, or even fingerprints (fat on the surface should not be). Between the foil and the tube no slits, which could have an ant crawl, if you still get a hole, they need to be carefully filled with adhesive. Once the wheels are put on the tube and glue dries, you must use a soft brush, sprinkle both sides of each talcum powder or galmaninom.
Ants that dobirutsya to the first disc, it can not help but immediately fall down with a slick and at the same time on the dusty surface of the carton. So they just fell on her, and not on the table, made in small foil cups. It is best to do so: the lower circle 2 cm in diameter, the middle and the top 3 of 4 centimeters. This is in case the ant-slicker still be on the second disc: a fall from it, he can cling to the edge of the lower, and fly off to ricochet off a cardboard pad, and if the top is wider wheels, the ant will fall directly on the board. The battery of such foil insulators wean laziusov ants climb the outside of the tube on the second or third day after the opening of the hole anthill.