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The (too?) big ant farm arrived.
It was super well packaged and building it was fun, though the video it comes with for assembly isn't great (a 360p max resolution youtube video in current year kek).
The big tower being covered in red filtering film is my DIY solution, it's clear the way it arrives, but I figured that'd let too much light in for where I plan to keep my ants and this way they have a bit more darkness (ants can't see red light).
The 3D printed parts have a bit large layer lines, probably to speed up printing, but all the tolerances are fine and nothing looks really bad. It feels well thought out overall, whoever designed it put in effort to think of various features. (I think the outarea and big tower is a normal part and the rest is aftermarket as that's where the 3D printed stuff slots in.
Features:
- Large nest tower with automatically replenishing moisture via a sponge strip inside and a large reservoir for water.
- The large tower is separated into 3 section with slots for dividers to unlock parts of the nest.
- Large rectangular outworld, held together with rubber bands, I'll add some silicone to make sure it's escape proof, but probably fine even without.
- Trash area with quick release and a quickly removable lid, if (big if) I can get them to use that area for trash it'll be amazing to clean.
- Water feeder with medium size reservoir.
- Small nest tower consisting of stairs and 5 small chambers with a cotton strip and small water reservoir; so also has a moisture gradient from top to bottom. This cotton strip is directly accessible, so ants can drink from it safely too.
- 2 connection tubes between the towers, both can be closed off individually with dividers
- In-line small area in one of the tubes you can drop food into without needing to do so in the big outworld with slide open lid.
- Small lid on top of outworld that's easy to take off.
- Connector hole if you want to connect outworld to more/other habitats.