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So we got a question on YouTube, asking us,
how to clean out your ant farm after your colonie has died off.
and so that's what we're going to talk about today. Hi!
I'm Tyler! This is How to Ant Farm! let's talk about ants!
Okay! So the first step is to take this
lid off. You got some gross looking stuff stuck on there.
You got all that nasty looking stuff, in fact, I think I can smell it a little bit.
I'm gonna slide it a little out of the way. You're Gonna want to run
cold water through this colony, not hot water.
The reason you don't wanna run hot water is because the entire
colony the entire ant farm itself, will actually turn back into its liquid form,
and then you have to re-gel it and you're gonna lose all the
tunnels; unless thats of course what you're wanting to do.
so what we're gonna do, this part is a little bit gross,
but, turn on your water, you don't want it to be too strong.
I feel it's a little warm right now so,
I wonder if I turned it the wrong direction. You can only have it one direction.
There! Now its cold.
so now you're gonna wanna
take a paper towel, and
get all the leftover residue
off the sides.
Kay! Now we're going to run it through again,
So now, you're gonna fill it up with water one last time, now that you think it's clean
enough
and you're gonna let it sit for a little bit.
When you come back,
if you set it upside down, the entire shell
should pop right out. Then you can thoroughly clean the inside of it
and then pop it right back in, and you'll have your colony all brand new and fresh.
so you can smell this thing, it doesn't smell too good.
We have officially taken this all the way out
of the casing and we're gonna give it a quick
rinse. Make sure it's on cold first. This thing is very fragile so be careful.
Be very gentle.
And we are complete.
so our final notes are, that
we recommend after washing it all out, because that's what this is at right
now,
you let all the water drip out by holding it
upside down in the sink, and then believe it or not
you wanna put the lid on to maintain its Gel-ness.
We'll get back with you guys shortly,
on any future updates on our other ant farms.