Preparing for the Atta cephalotes
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 2:08 am
Hey Guys,
first post here but i will introduce myself later too But be aware that i am from Germany and maybe my english is not the best english you'll ever read here.
So i will get a small Atta cephalotes Colony later this month or next month. I allready have the Starterset for Leafcutters from the Antstore from Germany
but because these Ants will need much more space later i am into planing a better place for them. So i head over to IKEA and saw this awesome thing
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/stor ... -00242278/
This thing will only be for the fungus. So i will place three 40x40x40 or 50x40x40 Cages in there. This will gave me 200-240 L for the fungus.
The Question i have is ... how can i heat this thing ? The reason why i need to get this is i can not heat up my intire room.
And when it is to hot - how would you cool this ?
And as some kind of special thing - i like to have my Setup clean so i will not go and build things myself because it looks okay but most of the time the Glue Stuff looks not rly good.
Heatcables and mats are an option i thought about but i can not put a heatmat under the fungus because this will maybe destroy it ... so
i really hope you have some good ideas here for me and i hope this is the right part of the forum to post in.
Best Wishes
Mike
first post here but i will introduce myself later too But be aware that i am from Germany and maybe my english is not the best english you'll ever read here.
So i will get a small Atta cephalotes Colony later this month or next month. I allready have the Starterset for Leafcutters from the Antstore from Germany
but because these Ants will need much more space later i am into planing a better place for them. So i head over to IKEA and saw this awesome thing
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/stor ... -00242278/
This thing will only be for the fungus. So i will place three 40x40x40 or 50x40x40 Cages in there. This will gave me 200-240 L for the fungus.
The Question i have is ... how can i heat this thing ? The reason why i need to get this is i can not heat up my intire room.
And when it is to hot - how would you cool this ?
And as some kind of special thing - i like to have my Setup clean so i will not go and build things myself because it looks okay but most of the time the Glue Stuff looks not rly good.
Heatcables and mats are an option i thought about but i can not put a heatmat under the fungus because this will maybe destroy it ... so
i really hope you have some good ideas here for me and i hope this is the right part of the forum to post in.
Best Wishes
Mike