Ted Pavlic (he/him)#ProTip for lab work with #ants: Irrigation tube clamps, like these from #rainbird, can by easily cut with shears into water tube holders that can be hot glued down into a foraging area without a plaster bottom.
In general, irrigation fittings are relatively cheap tools to help secure and simplify the construction of multi-box nests. Consider these barbed connectors -- an elbow opening to a tube under the plaster on the left, and a straight coupler in the foraging area on the right.
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