Comments on: Antquarium Not So Good For Your Ants

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:28:08 +0000

This is no good for say a colony and brood because the gel kills the brood (larvea, pupea, eggs). even if you had a queen they wouldn't and shouldn't last long because you ants require alot of protein that the gel doesn't have also. The gel is tough and alot of ants can't dig in it. The ants will never forage because they live in food. This product makes ants die a unmeaningful death because they did not do any good for their colony.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:59:46 +0000

it's like a Tamagoshi with no buttons, but real death. Cool!
Can they do that with dogs?

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:37:22 +0000

I wonder if anyone here is going to come out screaming for the poor ants like they did with the squirrel catapult.

OMG ANTS ARE PEEPLZ 2!!!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:03:25 +0000

I like the Tokyomango blog, but the observations of one person don't prove that this ant aquarium is a failed concept.

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:56:17 +0000

I got one called AntWorks as a X-mas gift... got my big fat ants which lived for about 3+ months. One ant lived for 6 months before it died. I don't think the gel kills these ants...

By: Ant

Ant — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:55:55 +0000

Of course they don't live long. They're not really for serious ants rearing.

By: xenylamine

xenylamine — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:56:51 +0000

I wonder if that's the same as this; http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/6fd6/

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:46:35 +0000

My sister and her husband and kids have one. I don't think it's called "Antquarium" and it is wider than the one shown above (rather than tall). The ants have built a long horizontal tunnel and one long 45 degree angle shaft through the goop so far. It certainly seems to be working for them.

By: Stacyj

Stacyj — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:35:55 +0000

I had the exact same experience as linty - my ants lived out their lives just fine in the Antquarium (actually they survived far longer than ants in many of the traditional ant farms I've had), though the last month or so they really didn't do very much, I felt bad about that. What is the supposed evidence in support of the claim that Antquarium kills your ants? I tried clicking the link but only got a 404 Not Found error...

By: linty

linty — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:05:08 +0000

I had one of these a year or two ago.
Ours lived normal lifespans, but since ants have age-based roles that change as they mature from nursing/digging to foraging to defending they only really remain active for the digging phase and sit around for a month or two before they die.