Three Fire Ant Colony Casting Session, Part 3: Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Colony Casting (Cast #119)

[anthillart]

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Part three of the three fire ant colony aluminum casting session. You may notice in some of the other videos, dirt is piled over the colony. This helps to prevent the aluminum from bursting through the side of the colony. You may have also noticed that this wasn’t done for the last few casts and they turned out alright. Well, it finally happened on this cast; the aluminum burst through the hill at 00:30. Luckily, it didn’t mess up the cast overall and I only missed a small portion of the above ground mound. The spilled aluminum started a small fire but no worries, there’s always a water hose close by when casting and the fire was promptly extinguished.

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[emaxisonline]

This shows how these ants make paths inside the colony. Have you ever poured any silver into these colonies?

[anthillart]

I haven't tried it yet but I was actually planning to very soon. A very small one though because the silver cost would be too high for most of the colonies I cast.

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[enforcer48]

If you do, that'll be amazing.

At least, I'll be interested in seeing how that turns out.

[emaxisonline]

You can even add some alloy impurities to make it more solid. How much does that casting weigh the one you used in the video?

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[anthillart]

This one was 6.7 lb of aluminum. I was thinking of trying a much smaller type of ant colony with silver.

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[emaxisonline]

A kilo of .999 silver would cost around $1000, I think it will be quite costly in that way. Aluminum is fine for now.

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