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Ant Farm Moisture Levels

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To ensure that your ants are able to tunnel properly in the soil that you provide (or are provided with, in some ant farm kits) it needs to have the right amount of moisture in it. And here we're talking about the traditional type of ant farm like this Uncle Milton Original Ant Farm Kit.

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Ant farms tick all the boxes when it comes to kids! They can learn from them (and there's a lot they can learn), it keeps them interested and they can gain a sense of responsibility by looking after their little pets too!

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GIANT Ant farm with Mail-In Certificate for Ants - $23.95

Much more interesting than the TV and the screen size is nearly as big too! HUGE 15" x 10" viewing area makes it easy to watch your new pets as they tunnel away.

GIANT Ant Farm complete with LIVE ANTS - $29.95

These ants have been busy, they've completely messed up my carefully planned artistic design! It's intriguing how the ants dispose of the sand they burrow out. In the wild a large nest can have a spoil heap several feet in diameter. That's not going to happen here but you'll have fun watching them try!

Rainbow Ant Farm with Mail-In Certificate for Ants - $23.95

This one is amazing! Your ant farm comes with 5 different colored sands. You fill it up, creating a rainbow effect. Then, as the ants work away in their tunnels they rearrange your pattern to something they prefer!

Rainbow Ant Farm complete with LIVE ANTS - $29.95

This type of Ant Farm was devised by NASA scientists when they wanted to understand how ants responded to weightlessness in space!

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Lighted Blue Gel Ant Farm with Mail-In Certificate for Ants - $29.95

You can see from the picture how the ants carve themselves an intricate network of tunnels that imitates those found inside a real ants nest. 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!

Lighted Blue Gel Ant Farm complete with LIVE ANTS - $35.95

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You don't need to wait for weeks, these are the ants you need, RIGHT NOW!

These are the ideal ants for your ant farm. They're Western Harvester Ants Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. These worker ants are 5-6mm long and easily big enough to watch as they go about their daily routine of tunnelling, cleaning up, feeding and communicating with each other. 'Pogon' in their scientific name means beard, and if you look closely you can see that these ants have small whiskers on their chins. Hence the name!

Other creatures too! There's a whole world of interesting animals for your kids to explore! Just click on the cirlcles!


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Get your moisture levels right!
We are often asked how best to maintain an ant farm to get the best out of it and make it as homely for the ants as possible. If you are using one of the traditional-type farms, the most important thing is moisture. The kits come fully provided with a sufficient amount of the right grade of sand, but it is important that it has the right moisture content.

You've tried building sandcastles on the beach, right? Then youll know that dry sand is completely useless for sandcastle building. The sand grains don't stick together and it just flows around all over the place. What you need is moisture. Youll also know that if you have too much water then what have you got? Mud! Mud may be great for pigs and hippos but its no good for sandcastles (or ants!) because mud flows around all over the place too.

You need a moisture content that is somewhere in between to make a nice firm sandcastle that won't fall apart as soon as it's touched. To stop their tunnels collapsing, this is what the ants in an ant farm need too. It depends a bit on the particle size of the sand supplied with the ant farm kit, but usually about one part of water to eight parts of sand is about right and the important thing is to keep the moisture content right all the time. Too much water and you've got collapsing tunnels, too little water and you've still got collapsing tunnels. Get it just right and the ants will be happy and you'll be happy too. In the new gel-type ant farms, such as this LED Illuminated Gel Ant Farm, moisture isn't an issue because the water is contained within the gel medium but if it's a traditional two-plate ant farm that you're considering then this is something you'll need to be aware of.

HAVE FUN WITH YOUR ANTS!

PS - Remember, buying an ant farm and watching your ants perform their daily miracles of strength and skill is just the start - there's so much more to find out about the world of insects...and plenty of different kits to learn from! And if you're interested in something a little bigger than ants, check out these top-selling pet guides from geckos to guinea pigs!

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