How to make your own Ant Farm

The way I make an ant farm is the way they should be made, and I hope to get it manufactured someday, but it might not ever happen, so I ask that one of the many toy ant farm distributors in America come out with just one ant farm that is geared toward the serious scientific observer and not just another toy for kids. It doesn't have to be huge, but it's gotta be bigger than whatâ€™s out theres. At least 8"Wx12"Lx10"H

Here's how you do it? I like mine a little bigger.

You take an 18" long x 8"wide x 12" high fish aquarium to be your outside wall.
Then you take a 16"long x 6"wide x 9"high fish aquarium to be your inside wall.
Remove all of the cheap plastic parts at the top of the smaller aquarium so you can get it clear for glue.
Place the large aquarium right side up (the open side up).
Place the smaller one upside down (open side down) into the larger one. Glue the smaller one to the bottom of large aquarium, leaving approx. 1" on each side for dirt. (You can also place a light inside the small aquarium for some cool effects)
You may want to glue down four 2" strips of glass or something smooth surfaced around the top of the Large aquarium to make it harder (nearly impossible) for the ants to escape.
Get some decent tunneling dirt and fill up your new ant farm. Leave about an inch of room from the top.
Go dig up a queen and some worker ants and get started.
If you added a light inside the small one. You will need to drill a hole for the plug.


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Famous Quotes about Ants:
“The more ants are studied the more they reveal capabilities that exceed their small size.”
-Whit Gibbons

“Look to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. . . . She prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest”
Proverbs 6:6
-King Solomon

“It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”
-Thoreau

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
-Aesop’s Fables