Updated nest design

I thought I would give a go on a new approach to moisture control I saw on the ant forums.  You can see from the picture below that there are two moisture tubes that go directly into the nest into reservoirs.  This enables me to add water directly without endangering the ants.  The moisture then is absorbed into the plaster and expelled from the nest through evaporation.  So far, it seems to be working marvelously.  The only issue I have is that the evaporation does build up a bit and I think that is due to insufficient aeration.  I hope to address this with a mesh-covered hole in the lid, just having trouble getting the mesh to stick.

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