The Antworks Habitat and the Antworks Illuminator are all in one box. It includes a removable LED Illuminator with power adaptor, nutrient gel, magnifying glass, extreme zoom lens, ant catching/tunnel starting tool, and instruction booklet with interesting facts about ants. The ants not included, order form enclosed on back page of booklet. Item dimensions: 6.5 x 6 x 1.25 .
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
My son loves it:
This is so cool to watch. My son gets so excited to see a new tunnel dug by his ants. Its a fantastic night light in his room too.
Very cool:
This is my first ant farm, and I have to say it's been a lot of fun to see my ants develop a tunnel system in the transparent gel. The LED lights create a futuristic kind of feel, and are handy because you don't have to worry about having another light source to see what they're doing. A couple of notes: I started by catching some small ants behind my home, but they found a way to escape, I never did find out exactly how, but i purchased some harvester ants online and haven't had any problems. Also the... more info
the girls are busy!!!:
hi all! (update) its now a couple months later and the girls are still goin strong! only two have died. the rest are happily doin their lil anty things! i love this item! almost no care is required to provide your colony with a happy healthy anty sorta life...(they are diggin a new tunnel as i type this...use the 'super zoom' magnifier! its awesome!!!) looking forward to my next colony and habitat! (orig. review)... first understand. when you order this product. you will not get ants... more info
Great fun:
I received one of these ant farms for Christmas last year and waited all winter for the ants. Once we got them they went nuts!! The entire family enjoyed watching these busy workers dig and dig. But after a few months they just stopped digging. A few died but the others just stood around. I let that go on a few weeks even after poking a couple new holes on the top of the gel but they just would not dig any longer. So I let them go and ordered a second batch and they dug like crazy for a couple months then... more info
