Customer Reviews

Uncle Milton Ant Farm

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I just got my ant farm, only to discover that the ants cost an extra $4. That's not a lot, but it adds 33% to the cost. And it seems misleading when the product description says "Includes order form to receive live ants by mail."

The one truly amazing thing about Uncle Milton's Ant Farm was just how quickly the ants died. Perhaps ants just aren't cut out to live in a cheesy plastic enclosure propped up on somebody's bookshelf in a high-rise apartment in Manhattan waiting for a crumb to drop miraculously from the heavens. That's my guess.

I bought this thinking, hey wouldn't it be neat to have an ant farm? And it was pretty neat. I never order the ants offered with the product after hearing tales of dead ant tubes showing up in peoples mailboxes, and my girlfriend and I started catching them around the house. It was a sporty little affair at first, but they didn't thrive in there and starting dying, filling the place with little ant corpses. What started as a fun experiment ended as a depressing reminder of how fleeting life can be. I...I just need a little time to myself right now.

It takes them 4 weeks after you main away to get the ants I bought this product and it tells you to put the ants in the fridge when you get them to "calm" them so i did that when I put them in the container 25 RED BITING AND STINGING ANTS came out i had to catch then with a tissue 2 bit so hard their heads got stuck on it. Whenever you open the lid the ants come racing out. All within a day my whole ant farm died. Who wants to buy red ants???

DO NOT BUY IT!!!

I bought two of these, hooked them up, and they're absolutely fantastic. For the price, they're strong enough, the plastic is cheap, of course, but you get what you pay for. As long as you're careful with the product (you're not supposed to be handling it often anyway), it's a great small investment.

The only valid complaint I see here is the one regarding the ants. I didn't buy my ants from them because it said it could take anywhere from 2-10 weeks to send them, depending on the weather. I live in Wisconsin, and it was winter. I wasn't going to wait for THEM to decide when to ship my ants.

I ordered my ants from another website (google lifestudies)

These ant farms aren't going to compare to a wood/glass farm, but for the price, they'll exceed your expectations.

We purchased this ant farm for our 4 year old. We sent away for the ants in early spring and it took 3 weeks for them to arrive. As another review previously stated, these are large red ants and they are FAST.

We thought to create a funnel into the ant farm after the recommended chilling time. Ants have sticky feet! They don't necessarily slide down paper. It was quite a comedy. We had to ferry each ant into the farm w/ a long stick while I used an envelope to keep them grouped together on the counter...We may have had a couple escape into our kitchen but we never saw any sign of them again. During the process we did accidentally kill 2 ants but successfully placed about 20-22 live ants into the farm.

Oh, we did have to buy longer tubing for the tunnel as the one sent with the farm was too kinked to allow them to pass through.

Within a day the ants started building tunnels. It's been very interesting to watch and extremely educational. We have scrupulously followed the feeding/watering schedule sent with the ants. Unfortunately, it's been about 3.5 weeks and we only have 10 living ants. Watching the ants endlessly (and fruitlessly) build tunnels and bury their dead has become sad.

So while this is an educational toy and fascinating to watch it also teaches that death comes to everything. I'm glad we did this but we won't be re-ordering ants.

My son's ant farm was fun, although the first batch of ants took about 6 weeks to show up, and several were already dead. The problem started when we ordered a refill of sand and ants. We ordered them back in August. When there were no ants by October, we emailed, and received only a robo-response. Emailed again this month, no response. Wrote a real letter, with emails attached, and no response. That's an order form, two emails, and a letter, all ignored by Uncle Milton customer service staff. Don't bother to buy this product.

nothing like quality of previous ant farms from uncle milton. hard to instill liquid. clear plastic viewing area scratches very easily. replacement accessories are way too expensive.

All the ants came alive but i opened the tube and they ran out so i had to catch them Oh they are red ants as well they all died withen 24 hours i asked for them to be replaced its been 3 months.

DO NOT BUY THIS!!!

We sent for our ants and they arrived a crazy 5 weeks later. 10 ants were alive, within 24 hours, it dropped down to 3. They were dead within a couple of days. What a bummer. It should never have taken that long to send them ants. I e-mailed the company and they apologized and said that they had already shipped another set of ants free of charge. Well, it's been 2 months, no ants. I'm afraid to see what they'd be like if they ever arrived. We'd be better off finding ants outside, except we live in a place with no ants. Would be such a cool toy if the ants actually came like they said they would.