Toysmith Ant Universe Educational Kit Review

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We like the this product. My little scientists were 4 and 6 the first time we got this product and now at ages 6 and 8, we are on our 3rd habitat and my boys still love it. Before ordering it the first time, I had been afraid the ants would escape at some point but the top holds securely and my kids would have to work very hard to pull it off. This is a non-issue. The only tricky part is transferring the ants from the test tube into the gel farm initially. After that, they are in to stay. They are easy pets we don't have to feed them or clean up after them. They do not stink. I feel very confident in recommending this ant farm for any age of curiosity. The ants begin digging quickly (over the course of hours). My kids like watching them tunnel, as do we! The blue gel is very cool transparent and very slick. Each time we've gotten them, the ants have lived for several months. I gladly recommend this product. It is a fun bit of activity to add to a home.

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This is a nice ant farm for kids. I would not order ants from the supplier that is listed with the ant farm manual. The ants are less expensive, better auality, and arrive much faster when ordered from "Antsalive.com".

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this is the first ant farm i have owned... and like anything new i get into, i try to do a lot of research. so i looked around A LOT for the largest size ant farm.. i think the giant uncle milton type is somewhat larger but i wanted to use the gel habitat instead of using soil. so i came across this.. and i was like wow! a great deal and its a nice size...

i recieved mine super quick(via fed ex) but even while inside the box.. IT WAS NOT THE DIMENSIONS SPECIFIED. so i hope amazon or someone fixes that soon. the CORRECT DIMENSIONS ARE (of the ant farm itself) 6.5 X 5 X 1.... which in my opinion is a big difference than what is listed. it did come with the gel premade in it though. i think ill just keep it since it would be too much trouble to send it back. i guess if you want a gel habitat ant farm.. its not going to be too large.

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I read the review and was a little ify about getting this but my little nephew asked for an ant farm for xmas. After they order the ants I got a phone call. They all just loved it. The ant started up building tunnels. One of the ants is like a fulneral dirctor and takes care of the dead, one is the look out for the colony. All ants a female so they live up too 3 months and the gel has all the food and nutrients soo no feeding. EI: less chance for ant escape!!!! Great for kids

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We ordered Harvester ants online and since we got them they've been digging tunnels like crazy every day. My 7yr old and 3yr old love watching them, and so do I! We've only had it for about a week and I imagine the ants will only live for a few months, but for now it's been a lot of fun to check in on their progress throughout the day. **** Two months have passed and I'm writing a follow-up. The ants dug some incredible tunnels for many weeks and it was lots of fun to watch. Eventually the ants started to die, as expected, but what we didn't expect is that the live ants abandoned the tunnels where the dead ants were and for some reason also stopped digging new tunnels. For the past three weeks or so all of the living ants (maybe 15 out of the 30 original ones) just stayed at the top of the gel and basically tried to get out by gnawing on the sealant on the lid. It was obvious they were never going to get through, but all the same it got kind of depressing as they slowly died out. We decided we'd bring the ant farm outside and take off the lid to let the remaining live ones escape. We will probably try to rinse out the tunnels and see if we can get out all the dead ants then maybe order some new ones, but now we know that the lively lifespan of the ant farm is only about a month.