Product Description

Fascinations Antworks is the first and only ant habitat to be tested in zero gravity. It provides a total ecosystem for ants and uses a non-toxic blue gel which makes it easy to watch the ants digging their network of tunnels. It includes container, ant catcher, magnifier and activity guide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1976 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Fascinations
• Model: ANTW1
• Released on: 2009-01-01
• Dimensions: 6.50" h x 1.25" w x 5.50" l, 2.00 pounds

Features

• Antworks is great for science fairs, biology studies, or kids that want an easy to care for pet
• Follow ants as they live, work and tunnel in the translucent gel
• Watch the ants create complex 3-D tunnels before your eyes. The perfect indoor pet that requires no food, water or maintenance
• Perfect as or desk or room accent
• Provides children with a chance to observe ants close up over several weeks

From the Manufacturer
AntWorks is a fantastic ant farm, based upon a 2003 NASA Space Shuttle experiment to study animal life in space and test how ants successfully tunnel in microgravity. Children and adults both enjoy watching these little creatures tunnel around in the nutrient-enriched, blue translucent gel. Best of all, the ants require no food or water, because it's all in the gel.

Customer Reviews

Fascinations Antworks great educational/fun experience
Easy to set-up. Ants arrived within 3 weeks of ordering them. I set it up almost 2 months ago and the ants are still busy tunneling and working. No need to add food, water, or anything. Just dump the ants in and watch them work. I am using this with a group of middle school students as a lab observation. Came with a magnifying glass. The kids have really enjoyed it and even named some of the ants. The gel medium really allows you to see what's going on and the container can be passed around for observation without fear that it will disturb the ants tunnels. A definite hit for curious children of all ages. I will do this again next year!

Dead ants/no response
My son couldn't wait until his ants arrived in the mail, but to his disappointment they were all dead. I had prepared him that this might happen and he did undersand. The problem is I have been trying to contact the company by email and phone and have not had a response and was not able to get new ants. I know he would love this product, but it looks like we will never know. If I do not get a response I will return the product for a full refund.

Disappointed thus far
We got this for our son for Christmas. He was very excited. I ordered the ants for him from the order from in the back of the booklet. It said that the ants are shipped out every Wednesday so I was anticipating receiving the ants soon after we ordered them. Two months later we still had not received the ants. I finally emailed the company and they responded with an email saying they don't mail out the ants in cold temperatures. I did not know that (it doesn't say it on the order form I used) so I completely understood that once it was explained to me. I told them I could wait and that I understood; that I was simply checking on my order. However, I guess they decided to just mail them out because I received them when temperatures did not go above 20. We opened up the ants and in our little container were a bunch of dead ants, and four live ones. We put the four live ones in the antworks station. Two days later and the ants have still not begun to do anything; two more ants have now died. I guess I will try and order ants in the spring or summer from a different source than the one I used. So far this has been a major disappointment to my son (and to us). I'll hold out hope though that a new batch of ants in warmer weather will work.