HexNest

06/01/2024

Just a few pictures showing how easy it is to expand HexNest Foundry and Formicarium. HexNest Hex and Branch are our most popular formicariums, and the Foundry is being requested extremely often. Grab your while you can!
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06/01/2024

Greetings fellow ant keepers! Early summer and our colonies are growing rapidly and coming close to a need for more space. HexNest is an easily expandable formicarium solution for your growing colony. We now offer bundle deals that give added savings when you combine a Foundry with a Branch Formicarium. And as always, we offer free domestic shipping.
Visit HexNest.me for more information.

03/31/2024

Things are moving fast at HexNest and we are VERY excited! We are now providing more options for the HexNest Foundry as well as HexNest Branch and HexNest Hex formicariums.

For all three we are offering the option to have your foundry or formicarium to have vents. This is particularly useful for very small ant species that easily squeeze through the smallest gaps. If you are housing tiny species or the species you are keeping prefers a more confined space with no air circulation, then the Non-Vented option is for you!

For the HexNest Foundry, we are offering the choice of a Clear top or a Red top. The advantage of the clear top is that viewing your founding queen is very easy and taking pictures and video is unhindered. The Red top provides a level of comfort for your growing colony because to them the chamber is dark. The drawback is that though you can still view your colony's activities, taking pictures or video is a little more difficult.

For our last announcement for today, we are also moving HexNest Hex into full production! This formicarium design offers large and small chambers for your colony to choose from to suit their needs. Hex also comes with the optional red cover, vented or non-vented, as well as the optional fine substrate. HexNest Hex's internal design is one of our favorites. It has a very high tech appearance and is manufactured with the same top level quality and materials as our other products.

Pictures to follow very soon!
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03/29/2024

Another advancement in ant keeping is in the final stages of testing. A hydration reservoir that helps maintain humidity in your HexNest formicarium and foundry. This device keeps your hydration chamber filled for an extended period of time. It holds 6ml of water that is fed into the hydration chamber, helping to maintain a constant humidity level in your formicarium. It is compatible with all HexNest formicariums and foundries.

Pictures to follow.

03/22/2024

Along with Bundles and our spring sale, we are very proud to nor offer the Foundry with Substrate. This was a huge technical challenge to get the manufacturing right, but persistence paid off. Now one of our best selling products is even better!

The Substrate option provides a more natural environment for your favorite growing colony. It helps maintain humidity levels and makes your queen and her workers feel more comfortable, much more as it would be in nature.

So please visit https://www.hexnest.me to take advantage of the 15% bundle offer, free domestic shipping, and be sure to select the Substrate option!

Next generation formicarium and founding chambers designed for the Ant Keeping community! Modular, Expandable, Space Efficient, and Easy to Use! | hexnest

03/20/2024

HexNest now offers a Starter Kit. A customizable combination of a HexNest Branch and a HexNest Foundry. When you purchase one of each, you enjoy a 15% discount and free domestic shipping.

Visit https://www.hexnest.me for more information.

Next generation formicarium and founding chambers designed for the Ant Keeping community! Modular, Expandable, Space Efficient, and Easy to Use! | hexnest

03/17/2024

Spring is almost here! Colonies are waking up. Queens are starting to produce. Time to stock up on new formicariums to house your growing colony. And none are better than HexNest.

Take advantage of the 10% discount and free domestic shipping! 18 Mar to 31 Mar.
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Next generation formicarium and founding chambers designed for the Ant Keeping community! Modular, Expandable, Space Efficient, and Easy to Use! | hexnest

02/14/2024

Getting ready for spring? So are we! Its right around the corner, and with spring comes population increases for your favorite colonies!

Valentines sale is now on from today until 20Feb where we are giving 10% off and free shipping for orders over $30.00. Its time to stock up and provide the best formicariums for your growing colonies.

Visit https://www.hexnest.me to take advantage!

01/20/2024

Pogonomyrmex colony thriving in the HexNest Branch Red formicarium.

01/20/2024

Pogonomyrmex colony happily thriving in the HexNest Branch Red formicarium.

Next generation formicarium and founding chambers designed for the Ant Keeping community! Modular, Expandable, Space Efficient, and Easy to Use! | hexnest

01/20/2024

Pogonomyrmex colony happily thriving in the HexNest Branch Red formicarium.

01/17/2024

Our excellent HexNest Beanch White with Substrate and red cover with a young colony of Crematogaster CA02 living in it.

12/13/2023

This is a late notice, but we are proud to announce that HexNest is now selling on multiple platforms. It’s been a significant learning curve and had its fair share of frustration and stress, but we accomplished the mission just in time for Christmas.

What platforms?
Facebook
Instagram
Shopify
eBay
Walmart
Amazon
Etsy

Anyone looking to start a store on any of these, please ask me. Some were easy on the trivial side, such as Etsy, while others have taken weeks of frustration, such as Walmart.

Also we are having a 15% sale on our products on the Shopify store: https://www.hexnest.me. So please place your orders soon so we have t to build, quality control, and ship before Christmas. Also materials are limited and hard to get these days, so finished products are in limited availability.

Next generation formicarium and founding chambers designed for the Ant Keeping community! Modular, Expandable, Space Efficient, and Easy to Use! | hexnest

11/10/2023

HexNest is looking to hire a part time social media promoter. You must have experience promoting products on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms. You must be based in America and English should be your proficient or primary language. Knowledge, experience, or an interest in keeping ants is absolutely required.

Please contact us (PM/IM) for information.

11/04/2023

Excellent news folks! We have officially launched HexNest Branch with an optional substrate coating.

Some ant species do not do well living on a slick surface such as acrylic. Pogonomyrmex are a perfect example of this. Also some species require to have substrate available to form their cocoons.

We have spent months working on this problem. We knew the solution, but manufacturing our product with the substrate proved to be quite the challenge. We are always striving for high quality products for our customers, so we kept at this for quite some time until we FINALLY got it right! Perfectly in fact!

Another advantage of the substrate is that it helps maintain consistent humidity within the formicarium. Another advantage for your favorite species!

Here are our new pictures of HexNest Branch in various colors with the substrate treatment.

Like what you see? Take a look at our products on HexNest.me!

10/23/2023

Lets all celebrate Halloween together with a 10% discount on all products at https://www.HexNest.me. Discount is automatically applied at checkout. Sale ends Halloween night!

Domestic shipping is free during the sale and International customers can receive an additional $10 off to offset shipping costs with code IntShipOffset10.

10/19/2023

Greetings fellow ant keepers!

Things have been quiet on facebook as we have been very busy making product improvements.

As such HexNest Beanch will be improved with an optional addition of substrate applied to the bottom layer. This will improve the quality of life for species that are more comfortable in an environment that is more natural.

Along with this HexNest Cyst and Hex along with Foundry will be made available with the substrate.

New pictures will be made available soon!

10/08/2023

Greetings fellow ant keepers!

We are almost ready to launch another HexNest Formicarium! This Formicarium, as with HexNest Hex, is in prototype testing stages, so again we only have a rendering. As with Hex, we are VERY excited about this new design.

Cyst - named after the large chambers it offers - is a formicarium designed with six rather large chambers for your colony to make a home in. The hydration chambers straddle the these chambers and the passages between.

This Formicarium, as with Hex is completely compatible with HexNest Branch and HexNest Foundry.

As with Hex and Branch, this design will be offered with a choice of substrates. This substrate will be available in Fine and Coarse. This gives your colony a nice comfortable floor to walk around on and also provides material to aid in cocooning.

Please let us know what you think!

Dont forget to visit our shop here on Facebook, Instagram, and at https://www.hexnest.me.

10/07/2023

Greetings fellow ant keepers!

We are almost ready to launch another HexNest Formicarium! This one is currently in the prototype testing stage, so we can only show the rendering. However this is looking very promising and should be ready for order very soon!

Here is a rendering of the HexNest Hex. A formicarium designed with three rather large chambers and three smaller chambers. The hydration chambers straddle the large chambers and the passages between.

This Formicarium is completely compatible with HexNest Branch and HexNest Foundry.

More news: Upon launch, we will also be offering all our HexNest products (Including Foundry) with a choice of optional substrate applied to the bottom. This substrate will be available in Fine and Coarse. This gives your colony a nice comfortable floor to walk around on and also provides material to aid in cocooning.

Please let us know what you think!

Dont forget to visit our shop here on Facebook, Instagram, and at https://www.hexnest.me.

09/30/2023

I have very sad news! My Myrmacocystus Mexicanus died today. She was doing so well! more than a dozen brood going strong. But I think I know why. The weather here turned relatively cold over the last couple weeks and I did not have her near any heat source. I was going to move her near a heat cable to provide a bit of a gradient, but kept forgetting to do it.

BUT... All my other colonies are doing well. C. CA02 is still going strong. Pogo colony is digging extensive tunnels. Myrmacocycstus Mimicus is there taking care of her slowing growing brood pile. Even my TINY Crematogaster colony is doing well in their little founding tube.

Lesson learned - Crematogaster colony is now on heat as well as my Mimicus queen. The others have had access to heat with a thermostat. I have always been cautious with heat for queens in tubes because heat can easily grow too high.

I am really looking forward to the success of the Mimicus queen. There is a nice TarHeel nest waiting for her.

RIP M.Mexicanus! You will be missed.

09/30/2023

Greetings everyone! We have had a busy week here. One result of our efforts is that we have completely redesigned HexNest.me to be more product focused. We have a couple more changes coming, but we feel the update provides a nice clean storefront and minimizes clutter. We still provide useful information down lower.

Please take a look and let us know what you think! Https://www.hexnest.me.

Next generation formicarium and founding chambers designed for the Ant Keeping community! Modular, Expandable, Space Efficient, and Easy to Use!

09/27/2023

HexNest Foundry and Formicariums - modular solution to ant keeping!

09/25/2023

A little video showing how my Myrmacocystus Mexicanus colony is doing. She seems to be a happy little queen and a fairly good size brood going.

Visit my Facebook store or https://www.hexnest.me for the HexNest Formicarium and Foundry chamber.

09/23/2023

Looks like my Camp CA02 colony is going to have a population boost here soon! Not the best picture, but I count about 20+ larvae there.

And yes, they are quite happy in the HexNest Branch White formicarium.

09/22/2023

Greetings everyone! After a fairly painful process, we have finally been able to connect our Shopify store to Facebook! Please take a look and provide feedback!

09/21/2023

Little Mrs Myrmacocystus was having around taking care of her brood, but I noticed she piled sand around one of the larvae. At lease four cocoons, one larvae in the process of cocooning. About 6+ in the background you can’t see in this shot and a number of eggs.

09/20/2023

Greetings fellow Ant Keepers!

Sadly our opening sale has ended and I am glad to see the amazing response from the community! Since our opening day, we have added the HexNest Foundry, which has seen some rather spectacular interest, far more than we expected!

Also since our opening day we have had a pretty spectacular review from one of the Ant Keeping influencers - Novo Ants (Look them up on YouTube Please!!!). The response to that review has been more than we could have hoped for. Some amazing comments, suggestions, and helpful suggestions. All of which are being incorporated.

If you don't follow Novo Ants, please do so. He is a very knowledgable and entertaining content provider!

We currently still offer a special sale in response to Novo Ants review for 15% off your entire order with the code NovoAnts-15.

Keep in mind that we offer free domestic shipping (Economy within the USA - No code required), but are not leaving our international friend out in the cold.

We at HexNest understand that international shipping can be expensive so we also offer an additional code to offset international shipping costs by $10.00 USD with the code IntShipOffset10. This works in combination with the other codes, so please take advantage of them both!

More products are currently under development as our goal is to provide an entire Ant Keeping system to make this hobby easier for you and your colonies. Soon to come:
* HexNest Formicariums Large - A larger formicarium for use with much larger ant species that are particularly popular in Australia and many parts of Europe.
* HexNest Outworld - A modular Outworld that works perfectly with the HexNest Formicarium and Foundry.
* HexNest Formicarium Optional Sand - A special coating of sand on the base level of the formicarium that provides a more natural environment for your colony.
* HexNest Wall Bracket - A bracket that allows you to mount your HexNest Formicarium on a wall.
And many other improvements and additions are on the docket. You speak, we listen! Suggestions from our customers are always welcome.

HextNest - Next generation formicarium and founding chambers designed for the Ant Keeping community! Modular, Expandable, Space Efficient, and Easy to Use! Comparable with all 3rd party ant keeping products. The first and only Patent Pending formicarium on the market!

09/19/2023

Macro shot of my lovely Myrmacocystus Mexicanus queen. She is holding one of her brood and standing over about 15 others.