aNtistic design

Step 2 Design

before you even know what materials you need you first need to figure out the design you want .I went with a simple box 23x13 and 17 high and a 3 gap in between for the ants to tunnel .I built a test ant farm mainly to see how fast the ants tunneled but ended up finding it more fascinating then I had thought .the fire ants had reached the bottom of the ant farm (18 inches) in about 2 days .once I knew that I decided to tweak my design making it more contemporary as well as getting rid of a fair amount of area (tunneling area) .I also narrowed the thickness between the inner and outer form so there would again be less sand for the ants to have in which to tunnel .my new design took trapezoidal shapes out and would leave defined legs for the table .once I had it all sketched out with measurements it was time to build

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[pacwoods]

Fire ants?? yow! they are dangerous and painful!