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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 139146" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>I haven't put the build pictures together yet but I have experimented since. </p><p>Originally I included straws so that water can be syringed down to the bottom of the substrate, the first four were done this way and it works pretty well but because there is not much actual substrate to hold the moisture they can dry out quickly on occasion. So I adapted another idea I saw on the formiculture forum and filled the inner container with wet sand. I put a 1cm mesh covered hole in a bottom corner and another on the top. I made plugs for the top openings using petri dishes so that there wouldn't be evaporation from the top of the inner tub, moisture will have to evaporate from the surface of the substrate and be drawn from the wet sand in the inner tub via the bottom opening. Having removable plugs means I can swap the decor in the enclosure easily and it can be moved for better access during maintenance. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]32797[/ATTACH] So far they are working well with ants, I have had my Phlogius crassipes in one for a while without problems but it hasn't burrowed so isn't it very close contact with the grout. When the Selenotopus "sp2" are active again I'll move a couple of those little bulldozers into this style enclosure for a real test. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]32798[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]32799[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]32800[/ATTACH] </p><p>And this is Young Geoffrey, my P. crassipes in his enclosure, he's doing much better in this enclosure .[ATTACH=full]32801[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Jay, post: 139146, member: 27677"] I haven't put the build pictures together yet but I have experimented since. Originally I included straws so that water can be syringed down to the bottom of the substrate, the first four were done this way and it works pretty well but because there is not much actual substrate to hold the moisture they can dry out quickly on occasion. So I adapted another idea I saw on the formiculture forum and filled the inner container with wet sand. I put a 1cm mesh covered hole in a bottom corner and another on the top. I made plugs for the top openings using petri dishes so that there wouldn't be evaporation from the top of the inner tub, moisture will have to evaporate from the surface of the substrate and be drawn from the wet sand in the inner tub via the bottom opening. Having removable plugs means I can swap the decor in the enclosure easily and it can be moved for better access during maintenance. [ATTACH=full]32797[/ATTACH] So far they are working well with ants, I have had my Phlogius crassipes in one for a while without problems but it hasn't burrowed so isn't it very close contact with the grout. When the Selenotopus "sp2" are active again I'll move a couple of those little bulldozers into this style enclosure for a real test. [ATTACH=full]32798[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]32799[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]32800[/ATTACH] And this is Young Geoffrey, my P. crassipes in his enclosure, he's doing much better in this enclosure .[ATTACH=full]32801[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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