Gel Ant Farms

GEL ANT FARM IDEAS

Gel ant arms are great for people who want to get started straight away and not have to load their ant farm up with sand and check moisture levels. They make a great gift and are especially interesting as you can see your ants from all sides as they tunnel through the gel. There’s a whole range of gel ant farms out there, as we show below. They come with a voucher to order your live ants but, if you don’t want to wait for your ants to arrive, why not order them with your kit, so you can be up and running in no time? And the kids won’t be disappointed at having to wait! You’ll see we show two options for each farm; with and without live ants.

Unlighted Gel Ant Farm

Antworks Ant FarmThe Antworks Gel Ant Farm was just about the first on the market and is still a top seller. It requires no power, unlike many others shown here, and because the ants eat the gel as they tunnel, they don’t even need feeding. The gel contains all the nutirients that the ants need to keep them healthy and energetic. You’ll have hours of fun just watching them at work. The Antworks Gel Ant Farm is just about the last word in maintenance-free pet keeping!

Illuminated Gel Ant Farm

Green Gel Ant FarmThis is a great gift. And the green gel gives this ant farm a sort of eerie effect when it’s illuminated with its built-in L.E.D lights. This type of Ant Farm was devised by NASA scientists when they wanted to understand how ants responded to weightlessness in space! What they learned we still don’t know but we’ve got a lot to thank them for as the illuminated gel ant farm is just about one of the coolest things you can buy!

Ants On My Ceiling Ant Farm

Ceiling Ants

This a great idea from the top brains in ant farm research! A circular gel ant farm, so you can see your ants from all angles, and more than this….a battery-powered lamp that shines up through the gel and projects moving shadows of your ants as they tunnel away, on your ceiling. Like other gel ant farms, no food or water is necessary, and the whole unit is completely self-contained. Lie in bed at night, shine this on your ceiling and give yourself a whole bunch of nightmares!

Colors of Life Ant Farm

Multi Color Ant Farm

WOW! NEW, continuously changing lighting system adds a whole new dimension to ant farming. Uses a unique multi color LED illuminator to bathe the clear gel in a rainbow of colors. And, if there’s one color you particularly like, you can hold the sequence wherever you want. How brilliant is that? The gel contains nutrients and water, so you don’t even need to feed them! This has to be the ultimate in maintenance-free pet keeping!

Antworks Sculpture Kit

Ant works Scupture KitTurn your ants’ tunnels into treasured pieces of art with this sculpture kit. AntWorks Sculpture is designed for use once your ants have completed their life’s work in your AntWorks habitat. The remaining channels and tunnels are complex and even beautiful. Create a permanent art piece from their tunnels by pouring clear resin into the habitat and wait for it to harden. Rinse away the loose gel and what remains is a stunning sculpture. An included illumination base adds another dimension to the beauty. AntWorks habitat not included with this sculpture kit.

AntWorks TVQuarium

TVQuarium Ant FarmIf you have difficulty getting your kids away from the TV, perhaps this will persuade them! They might not know it’s not a real TV. Cool blue illumination and a comprehensive set of accessories such as a magnifying glass, extreme zoom lens and a tunnel starter tool, to give your ants a helping hand, make this one of the best value ant farms available today..

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Triops Kits

TRIOPS KITS

What are triops? Are they insects? fish? No, triops are a small crustacean, sometimes called the tadpole shrimp. They are considered to be living fossils, some species having remained unchanged for over 180 million years. The reason that they make good pets is that their eggs can remain viable even when completely dried out. It’s an evolutionary strategy that enables them to survive in areas when temporary pools exist, they feed and breed when the rains form pools and puddles and then survive as eggs when the pools dry out.

Toyops Deluxe Triops

Toyops Deluxe Triops

As you can see from the picture, this kit contains everything you need to get started with growing trips for yourself. They’re great for kids but equally good for adults too as they exhibit a whole range of biological traits that are useful to learn about, whatever your age. Take note of the tips from seasoned Triops keepers on the Amazon website to help your triops live longer and be healthier.

Triassic Triops Kit

Triassic Triops KitAnother comprehensive kit, containing Space Age Tank, 100 Triop Eggs, Triops Food, Conditioner/Nutrient, Magnifying Lens, Thermometer, Hatching Tray, Pipette, and Instructions. Good value as the large number of eggs means you’ll be able to rise generation after generation of Triops.

Aquasaurs by Uncle Milton

 

AquasaursWe’re not quite sure why Uncle Milton (creator of the original Ant Farm) chose to call his Triops kit Aquasaurs. Perhaps he knows something that we don’t. Anyhow this is a good kit with plenty of positive reviews. One tip though – use bottle water, never tap water as this will kill them.

Triops Hatchery

 

If you already have a triops tank then this is the ideal kit to hatch newborns and keep your stock replenished. This kit contains over eighty eggs so you’ll have plenty to keep you entertained. Kit includes: * Hatchery Dish * Baby Food * Adult Food * Dish of Eggs * Pipette * Directions for Ages 8 and up

The following snippet, from the estimable Wikipedia gives an idea of the evolutionary background of these fascinating creatures:

The genus Triops can be distinguished from the only other genus of Notostraca, Lepidurus, by the form of the telson, which bears a pair of long, thin caudal extensions in Triops, while Lepidurus bears a central platelike process. Triops are sometimes called “living fossils”. Fossils attributable to this genus have been found in rocks of Carboniferous age, 300 million years ago, and one extant species, Triops cancriformis, has hardly changed since the Jurassic period (approximately 180 million years ago). [edit]Life cycle

Most species reproduce sexually, but some populations are dominated by hermaphrodites which produce internally fertilised eggs. Reproduction in T. cancriformis varies with latitude, with sexual reproduction dominating in the south of its range, and parthenogenesis dominating in the north. Triops eggs enter a state of extended diapause when dry, and will tolerate temperatures of up to 98 °C (208 °F) for 16 hours, whereas the adult cannot survive temperatures above 34°C (93°F) for 24 hours or 40 °C (104°F) for 2 hours. The diapause also prevents the eggs from hatching too soon after rain; the pool must fill with enough water for the dormancy to be broken.

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