Customer Reviews

GeoSafari Ant Zone

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We purchased 6 of these for classroom use with second graders, one for each class. We are very happy with them, and the students loved seeing the ants work. Read the directions in advance and set up the ant farm a few days in advance of the arrival of the ants. They seem better than the tall narrow ant farms. As a matter of fact, one of the teachers has the ants still living and burrowing at least 4 months later. She feeds them Girl Scout cookies!

They were neatly packed and arrived in good conditon too.

This was so much fun for my eight year old who's obsessed with insects. The plastic container was good and sturdy and the fact that the ants could roam freely rather than be squashed between to plastic sheets, made them all the more entertaining.
He's playing with it as I type, so I can't think of a better recommendation than that!

I bought this for my Grandson's 6th Birthday. We love it !!!!I have just as much fun with it as he does ! The Ant Zone was delivered very promptly, and is even better than I imagined. This is a much better way to watch the ants interact, than the small square ant farms. I'm even considering ordering one for my 86 year old Mother !!!

My 8 year old daughter requested this ant farm. It came quickly and the ants (about 25) we ordered came in about 1 1/2 weeks. We prepared the habitat for ants per the instructions. The ants weren't a problem at all to put in. We did put them in the refrigerator for 7 mins to slow them down. The first day or two the ants did explore the habitat somewhat. They went down some of the tunnels we started for them and extended some of the tunnels. In all they added about 2 inches in tunnels before they stopped. For the most part the ants kept trying to get out of the habitat (they can't get out though) by trying to climb up the plastic wall. After 10 days of this it was pathetic to watch them continually climb up the wall only to fall down. I was considering letting them loose outside. But by the 2 week mark they started dying off. Every day we looked in there were more dead ants. By 3 weeks they were all dead. We gave them fresh water everyday and tried a couple of different foods (once per week per instructions) and kept it clean. The only food they ate was a little bit of a sunflower seed. My daughter wanted me to write this review so other kids wouldn't waste their money on this.

My daughter just loves this ant farm. She waters the ants every day and checks to see what progress and tunnels they have made overnight. She is really amazed at what the ants do and you can see them in action.

Her dad,
Bob

Greetings...

I never had an ant farm as a kid, so this was an experience for my children as well as myself. Antzone is an excellent product. It is well-made; it would be nice if the tank were bigger, but it's no big deal. Once the ants get going, you can watch them in great detail. The cage is designed well, and no ants will escape--even with the cover off.

The ants arrived within 10 days of sending out the coupon. Inside the Antzone is a form to fill out and send back to the company (with $2.00 postage); you'll receive a plastic test tube with 20+ harvester ants in it. Be very careful when you open it, they're very eager to get out.

Harvester can BITE and STING, so be very cautious and don't let the kids stick their fingers in the tank.

It was amazing to see how fast these little guys worked. In 3 days they've dug an extensive network of tunnels.

When I got my ant farm, I was eger to get my ants. But instead of paying $2 I had to pay $4 witch didn't matter much. Befor I got my ants, I studied the ant farm. These were the best that you can buy. The ants can roam in a larger space unlike thoughs 2D ones.

I bought this for my son's 7th birthday, and all 3 of my children love it!! the only down side is waiting 4+ weeks for the ants so I built our ant farm and went outside and got some ants I even got a queen and they started working right away, making tunnels, "fixing up their house" it's very cool to see them working, and building.

What appeared to be a perfect and happily different ant farm is far from it. This ant farm looked great for the kids in my day care to enjoy; the fact that it is 3 dimensional instead of 2 was a big draw for me. It is supposed to be escape proof. Far from it!! I can't even bring it in my house!!

The plastic is flimsy and the viewing glass appeared to be more of a cap but is not. The cap sits lightly on the top and the ventilation holes allow ample room for escape. Any number of small bugs could get in or out of there. We actually spent time capturing our ants, approximately 2 - 3 dozen, instead of ordering them - and there are none left in the ant farm.

Bottom line: Save your money and order a fully enclosed, truly escape proof ant farm. Great concept, poor execution. I'm not even sure I can give this an A for effort...a C- for effort at best.

I've just set the AntZone up and am not optimistic. The plastic is flimsy and was a little cracked at the bottom edge, so a lot of sand leaked out. I taped it up before putting the ants in, but that probably wouldn't have been a problem. Most of the ants are dead or dying. It probably didn't help that they traveled via mail during a heat wave. We'll see what the others do, and hope they don't figure out a way out!