Why Ant Keeping 为什么要养蚂蚁呢？
Ant Keeping is a great hobby for kids & adult.
They teach us something about teamwork and the natural world, the main thing ants keeping provide us a chance to have a mini world in our room and understanding the how the world work and build up the kid's love with life.
养蚂蚁是一种适合大人和小孩的爱好。
它们可以让我们了解到如何团队合作和见识到大自然的神奇。最好玩的地方就在于这个小小的世界竟然可以直接放在我们的房间内，附带的价值还可以让我们了解每个生命都是那么的神圣。
The formicarium is make to observe the ants colony behavior and also learn thing from these tiny life.
How the ants survive ?
How they teamwork and make the job separate?
How they fight when the insect come in and they need to work for their food?
蚂蚁缸是特别制作让我们可以观察它们的活动和习惯的，让我们可以了解这些小小的生命。
它们到底是怎么样延续自己的群落呢？
它们怎样合作，并且让各自都有事情做呢？
当食物进来的时候，怎么样用最有效率的方式处理呢？
What is the best thing that people get from ants keeping?
1)Discussion topic with whole family.
2)Stress release
3)Accomplistment
4)Understand how the thing work
5)Fun
6)Build up patient
7)A lot more going to find out!!!!
养蚂蚁到底有什么好处呢？
1）和家人多了一些话题
2）解放我们的压力
3）成就感
4）了解世界的运作
5）有趣
6）培养耐心
7）还有很多很多等待我们发觉哦
Below is the video of some ants keeper comment
以下是一些蚂蚁玩家的评论哦
What Ants Need 蚂蚁的生活所需
Ants is a very simple creature in the world , most of the ants need protein & water for survivor , some of them need sugar(example: polycharis)
蚂蚁是一种非常简单的小生命，他们主要需要的就是蛋白质和水来生存，其中一些特别的品种需要到糖分（例子：多刺蚁）
How Many Role In A Colony 群落内的角色
There are few role in the colony , they are Queen, Worker ,Major Worker, Princess, Drones
Queen - queen is the only ant that can lay eggs
Worker - serve the colony , find food/water/build nest/defend
Major Worker - defend/cut food/storage food
Princess - when the season is start ,they will fly out to mate with drones , after mated , they will become queen and start their own colony
Drones(Male) - they are born to mate with princess , whole life no need to serve the colony , but when the season is start , they fly out to mate with queen and died.
在一个群落内，会有好几个角色，分别是 皇后, 工蚁 ,兵蚁, 公主, 雄蚁
皇后 - 皇后是蚂蚁群落最重要的角色，负责生蛋
工蚁 - 服务整个群落，寻找食物/水源/建造窝/防卫都是它们的工作
兵蚁 - 防卫/切割食物/储存食物
公主 - 当季节来临，它们会飞离自己的窝出去和其他群落的雄蚁交配，过后就会变成皇后，开始自己的群落
雄蚁 - 它们主要是为了传种接代，出世到死亡都无需做任何事情，当季节开始就会离开群落出去和公主交配，交配过后就会死亡
I Want To Start Ants Keeping , How?我想开始养蚂蚁，怎么办？
1) Catch queen when nuptial flies season 在婚飞季节的时候去抓
You may try your luck to find the queen at the nuptial flies season under the street lamp
可以试试看自己的运气，在婚飞季节的时候可以去路灯的附近寻找皇后哦
2)Purchase from Antsmalaysia as link below and asking for better advise
向Antsmalaysia购买，下面就是链接哦
I Purchased Ants Colony with Formicarium, What Should I do?
我买了我的群落，我应该做什么呢
1)Check your colony size 检查你的群落大小
if the worker number above 10, please view 2.
假设工蚁大于10，请看第2
if the worker number below 10, please view 3.
假设工蚁小于10，请看第3
2)Feed your colony depend species , hydrate your formicarium & connect the test tube(or container) to your formicarium.
喂饱你的群落，把你的蚂蚁窝加湿并且把试管链接上去。
3)Feed your colony & put in dark place till the colony reach 10 worker or above.
喂饱你的群落，放在阴暗的地方直到十个工蚁以上
How Often I Should Feed To My Colony
我多久需要喂我的群落一次呢
Depend colony size will make the different how much need to feed.
根据群落的大小会决定你需要给与的食物
You may try the method as below:
你可以尝试以下的方法
1)First day feed 1 Unit of food , and see if they can finish.
第一天给与一个单位的事物，观察它们可以消耗完吗
if can't finish mean more than enough.
如果消耗不完，代表食物这样就足够了
2)If they finished the food , add some to them see they still desire to take the food or they just forging the area without take the food
如果它们可以把食物消耗完，可以观察再给一些看看，看看它们还会继续食用还是只是经过而已
When they are enough for food, you can estimate that they are full and can stop feeding around 3-4 days.
当你发现它们的食物够了过后，你可以停止喂食3-4天
Food List:-
食物列表
1)Dubia 杜比亚蟑螂
2)Red Runner红樱桃蟑螂
3)Meal Worm 小麦虫/大麦虫
4)Honey 蜜糖
5)Jelly 果冻
6)Fruit Fly 果蝇
Banned Food List:
黑名单
Any wild catch food is no good for ant colony, maybe the feeder contain pesticide.
任何野生的食物都是不被鼓励给蚂蚁群落的，因为可能含有杀虫剂
Housing For Ants Keeping 蚂蚁的窝室
1)Acrylic Formicarium 压克力蚂蚁窝
Good Point:-
a)Fully View 可以看到全部内容
b)Hydration easy to control 容易控制潮湿度
c)Can disassembly and clean 可以打开清洗
d)Hard to happen mold 不容易发霉
Bad Point:-
a)Higher Cost 较昂贵
2)Plaster Formicarium 石膏蚂蚁窝
Good Point:-
a)Cheap 便宜
b)Can customize 可以订制
Bad Point:-
a)Easy to mold 容易发霉
b)Hard to clean 难清理
c)easy to crack 容易破损
d)can't be reuse 不能重复使用
3)Ytong Formicarium 加气砖窝
Good Point:-
a)Cheap 便宜
b)Can customize 可以订做
c)ventilation is good 透气性高
Bad Point:-
a)Heavy 重
b)Hard to clean 难清理
c)Easy to crack 容易破损
d)Crafting is a hard job 不容易雕刻
How To Avoid Ants Escape 怎样防止蚂蚁逃跑
1)Powder + Alcohol Mixture 爽身粉+酒精
Mix powder and 70% or above alcohol , the solution should be fully white and cant see through.
把爽身粉和70%或以上的酒精混在一起，爽身粉要加到整个液体变成白色为止
2)Fluon 聚四氟乙烯
Shake before use 使用之前摇均匀就好
3)Vaseline + Olive Oil 润滑油和橄榄油
***All the solution should be adjust for different ant species
依照蚂蚁的不同，每一种方法的效果都不一样