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By starting with 10 or more ants from your garden, you can watch as they build a detailed network of tunnels in the AntWorks habitat.
As part of the NASA space programme investigating the effect of zero gravity,
animals and insects were taken into space and studied.
The ants are easy to look after as they require no food or water because everything is provided for in the gel. |
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25/03/2008 
I've only had this product a few days, yet i was wondering if my ants were just unusual... firstly, they began escaping through the air holes, and after sealing them up, they now spend their time, instead of tunneling into the goo, they are spending every waking minute tunneling into the foam that seals the container! still interesting however. 
26/01/2007 I got the Antworks for my son for xmas, we live in the Canary Islands, so I thought we should be ok weather wise to start things off. We are now on out 5th set of ant that we have gone out and 'harvested' not an easy task to say the least!
ALL the ants that we have introduced have died within a week so far!
The third set DID expand one tunnel out to the side by about 1.5cm and we got very excited at this!!
However the ants just died in the tunnel and proved harder to remove that the ones that died in the tunnels we had started for them! This removal of dead ants is a gruesome yet necessary task.
I do have one question though...
How on earth do we get them to establish themselves and realise that they can in fact eat this gel??
Oh, and how on earth do you get hold of a Queen??
We are now left hoping and watching to see if the latest inhabitants fair better!!!
Great looking piece of kit and will be great when the ants get it sorted!!! 08/01/2007 I've had bad bad luck with my ants so far, I sent off for a batch and the first batch dug half a tunnel and did nothing else till they died...all of them in the tunnels.
Batch 2 expanded the tunnel to the bottom and then also stopped till they died, again all at the bottom...so I had 2 batches of dead ants in my farm.
Batch 3 has been promising so far, they've all moved into the hole the others are dead in and have so far dug 5 tunnels well, 4 half tunnels and a full one. It took about 1 and a half months before they started this, this was also around the same time I stopped moving the ant farm from time to time ^_^
But when they are actually doing things they are amazing to watch! Which is why it still gets a 5 outta 5.
As for the escaping ants are all different sizes and depending on how well the Queen eats and how old she is depends how big they grow, each batch will be slightly bigger than the last, if they Queen has eaten well (woodlice work perfectly for this task) and so eventually the size will be too big to escape.
It's just luck which ants the ant breeders send you size wise. I have had some ants 3 times the size of others in a batch.
I had bought a Queen Ant with my new Ant Farm and so far they don't wanna leave the tube, one or two walk around now the first couple of baches are hatched and so far they seem happy where they are but when I place a woodlice I found and beheaded they go crazy for it and pull it to piece and head off to the queen to feed her well which I do this once a week.
The batches should be nice and healthy and bigger each batch now =D
That's me finished sorry for being so long winded. 07/01/2007 I got this product for christmas. As I unwrapped it I didnt have a CLUE what it was! As soon as I realised it was something that was going to develop itself into a unique feature i got well excited!! I also had a tube of ants but as it was kept for a few days from post the majority had only gone and died!! however approx 5-6 survived! since then there are now 4 alive (2 weeks) and there has been NO digging! the only tunnels are the 4 holes i stabbed myself with the provided stick! ANYWAY I have another 50 batch on its way, I'LL TRY AGAIN!! They are AMAZING to watch tho! i suggest you get one! 
20/05/2006 I got the AntWorks for my 21st birthday and was immediately jumping off the walls with excitment when i introduced the first batch of ants from my garden (this is one of the trickiest things ive ever done- no guidance in the instruction manual!). Alas, i too found that all they wanted to was ignore the gel and escape throught the air vents and the foam! There are a couple who are tunneling as they should but not enough to be prodcutive. cracking the lid open to give them air only prodcuces a frenzy of activity and a renewed interest in escaping through the foam seal. i would buy the harvester ants as suggested but the company ships only to America! I just hope my ants stop the strike soon and start a new home! 
