The 18 tools included in the ant farming toolkit are: double-ended hook, tweezers, dropper, nutrient solution, feeding dish, water feeder, cotton, small stopper, brush, anti-escape powder, 2ml seeds, 2ml egg-laying paste, one 15mm diameter water-blocking sponge, one 18mm diameter water-blocking sponge, 5cm soft tube, vacuum cleaner, macro lens, thermometer and hygrometer.
Key Product Features:
- Double-ended hook: Multi-functional core tool. Slim double-ended design, used for precise operations inside the nest, such as picking up small items.
- Tweezers: For picking up food, removing foreign objects, handling dead ants, and placing small items into the feeding or activity area.
- Dropper: Precisely controls water volume, used for adding water to the water feeder or directly dripping nutrient solution into the feeding dish.
- Nutrient solution: Provides additional nutrients and energy supplementation required by ants.
- Feeding dish: A specialized container for placing solid food.
- Water feeder: Provides clean, stable water (usually used with cotton or water-blocking sponge).
- Cotton: For making a simple water tower, placed in a test tube with water to provide water and maintain humidity.
- Small stopper: Used to seal test tube openings, connection tube interfaces, or small reserved holes in the nest.
- Brush: For cleaning food residue, ant carcasses, and other debris from the activity area, feeding dish, and nest surface.
- Anti-escape powder: Applied to the edges of the nest, the top edges of the activity area, connections, and other places where ants might escape.
- 5cm soft tube: A channel connecting the nest to the activity area, or connecting multiple nests/activity areas.
- Vacuum cleaner: A specialized mini vacuum cleaner for quickly cleaning food residue, dust, and other small debris from the activity area.
- Macro lens: An external lens clipped onto a mobile phone camera, providing powerful macro magnification for clear observation of ants.
- Thermometer and hygrometer: Real-time monitoring of temperature and humidity near the ant-keeping activity area.