These little dudes are amazing!
After 4 hours: (most of those are "starter tunnels" - you're supposed to poke a few holes in the gel to get them started - they dug the big one that goes all the way to the bottom)
After 24 hours:
After 1 week:
Here's a close-up of them shortly before joining the two halves of this tunnel together: Amazing!
I'm pretty sure that I'm more fascinated by them than anyone else in this household... although Noah does run downstairs every morning to check what they've done since the night before. They get a lot done at night! Such industrious little creatures.
P.S. Happy Leap Year!!
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Those are very cool. When you said Noah was getting one of those, Dan got so excited. We almost got one too!
Just wait till he sees this!
They are awesome. I LOVED ours last year. It was sad when they all started dying. I watched them for a few minutes this morning.
I also meant to tell you that when I was in your house today I about died when I saw your fish. Your plecos and your catfish are HUGE. Holy cow!!!
Sooooo cool!!!
We haven't seen them since day 1. Very impressive!!
I love watching ants! I think they are amazing. It blows my mind how they can carry things that are 5 times their size.
That is so cool. I can just picture you guys all gathering around the ant colony every morning in awe!! It's pretty cool. What is that stuff? Some kind of Gel?
That is pretty cool. Don't you love new technology. I was just telling my mom to get my nephew one of those. I love how you can see all the other tunnels. We just might have to get one. What is the life expectancy of those farms anyway?
Yes it's some kind of gel, which they also eat so you don't have to feed them anything else. They are supposed to live I think 1-3 months; does that sound about right Kate? The instructions say that after they all die, you can rinse it out with water so the dead ants and loose pieces of gel get washed out, leaving the tunnels, and then put another set of ants in there -- but the new ants wouldn't do much more tunneling. The antfarm itself is like $20-$25 and then it's $3-$5 to order 20-25 ants, which come in the mail. So $25 might be a little steep for something that only lasts a few months tops, but it's just so awesome.
I think ours lived an average of about 2 months. Every few days another would die... and the live ones usually carried the dead bodies up to the top. We just threw the whole thing away after they all died. It was totally worth the expense, I thought. I got the "farm" from Sharper Image.
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