Wood

This is a shot of the 8.5"x11"x1/2" Terrarium I currently am using to house my Myrmicinae.. This is a horizontal terrarium and a new design which I finally have Step-by-Step construction instructions online for!! Yay. Only what a year later!! This design is the culmulation of years of experience and a lot of prototypes. So far I and my Myrmicinae like it a lot. Unfortunately construction requires an Adult to do. I would not recommend anyone below 18 attempt the construction - not that I couldn't have done this when I was a teenager - but as a teenager I would have valued having someone skilled as well as available power tools required. (I didn't have my own table saw, power drill, etc.)

To the bottom left is a shot of the one which was completed from the instructions. I will also be adding these to my list of products but I need to determine prices. They should be up soon.

Plaster/Gypsum

NOTE: I want to let people know that while I still will sell these on request I personally am not using plaster anymore for the following reasons:

1. All but one of the colonies I had live in them perished
2. The only one which liked it (Myrmicinae) would tunnel into the plaster in short order
3. I tended to have more problems with mold in these than in the wood based terrariums.

To the left is an image of a small 6"x6"x3/4" Terrarium. Here are the step-by-step instructions on how to construct this yourself. This terrarium is being used on Cam 2 to house a common species of pavement ant (very small less than 1/4" in size).

This is a shot of the 12"x12"x1" Terrarium I currently am using to house the Formica's on Cam 1. It is aligned close to vertical using a bent piece of cardboard and illuminated on the right and left by Phillips Earthlights (15 watt). Construction is identical to the above Terrarium simply scale the materials required - and construct a larger frame.