This time I want to share with you a project that I wanted to carry out to see if it works for me, I have been researching for days on the breeding of ants and how to design an anthill, most of the people I saw that they did it bought their farms online and it is much more simple to carry out the raising of these animals; I saw some that were not made with recycled materials but none convinced me, so I wanted to invent my own model based on some of those observed.
Here I will be showing the elaboration of my anthill, I hope you can follow my content and continue to see later how the process of my ants is going.
The materials that I used were different reused things that I had on hand in my house. The main thing was a mareda box where I was going to carry out the construction of my anthill, I also looked for 2 glasses, a hose, a transparent plastic container and silicone to glue everything.Greetings #hive friends, how are you today?

For the first step, what I did was take the wooden box and the smaller glass, I glued it in the middle of the box, I looked for some pieces of anime that I used as separators and with plenty of silicon I let it stick for a couple of hours ; The purpose of this glass in the middle is to create two environments, one with dry earth behind and the other with moist earth in front where we want the ants to make their tunnels, the back part is preferable dry earth so that the humidity does not damage our box.

For the next step I proceeded to make some holes in the upper part of the box, with these we will allow oxygen inside the anthill, the other function is to be able to pour water through these, the ants need to have a humid soil to be able to build; Finally we will make a much larger hole through which the hose will pass, you will see later what the function of this will be.
Once we have the holes made, we can glue the glass from the front, like the previous one with plenty of silicone and well glued, this glass must be completely transparent to be able to see the work of the ants.

Now we will take the aforementioned container and at its base we will make a hole through which the other part of the hose will pass, so that they can do this process it is recommended with a very hot screwdriver that can melt the plastic; When we already have the hole and we do not need to manipulate it anymore, we will stick it on the top of the box, remember that the hole in the container must go to the same side as the largest hole in the box.

When the container is firmly glued we stop to the next step, now we will fill our anthill with earth or sand, I did it with earth and to make the visualization better I had to sift or strain all this, it is a slow process and it takes a lot of patience but that it would be better to be able to see our ants.
When we put 3/4 of the earth in our anthill, we can put the hose, as you can see in the image, the idea is to have communication between the container and the anthill; In the container it will be where we put the food and certain things for them, we do not want to throw them directly into the anthill because otherwise we would damage their nests by polluting, it is better that they select what they want to take down.

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As you can see this is the final result, I hope you liked it, soon I will be publishing the process of my ants, here I add a little water so that they can see how the front part is moistened and have the land ready for them to work there.
Another point I want to make is that to have an anthill you need a queen so that the ants have a purpose and can perform all their roles, without a queen they will have no purpose and will do nothing.

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