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Media & Instructions

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1-minute instruction videos!

  • Test tube connector

  • Hill display arena

Download the latest instruction manual with a complete step-by-step plan here:

INSTRUCTION MANUAL


Do you want to watch a video with instructions and answers to almost all questions? Then scroll down quickly to watch the video. All discussed questions can be found directly below the video!! Here are all the instructions that you can download as a PDF:

Ants are heroes - E-Book download

Plaster Ant Farm - Master series

Acrylic Ant Farm - Universe series

Sand Ant Farm - T-Farm

Cube Ant Farm

Gel Ant Farm

Butterfly caterpillars instructions


 

 

Relocation, connecting the ant farm, and the development of your ant colony
2.36 - How to best keep ants (Lasius niger), how does it start?
10.30 - The development of a colony. How is a queen born, how do flying ants emerge, what is the process of an ant colony?
14.25 - How old can ants and the queen get?
17.12 - How long does it take for eggs to hatch? How long is the life cycle of an ant?
20.55 - How does a colony grow fastest?
39.10 - How do you connect your ants to an arena or ant farm, how and when do you do that?
43.44 - How do you move your ants from the test tube to your Ant Farm?

How to deal with moisture
6.29 - What is behind the cotton wool in the test tube?
8.15 - How do you keep your ant farm moist, how do you deal with moisture, how much?
31.05 - How do you deal with moisture? Additional explanation. Also check 8.15

How to deal with food
6.13 - How do you prepare a tube of sugar water?
6.36 - How do you place food (sugar water)?
16.15 - Do ants like beer?
18.30 - How does feeding work, what can you give?
20.40 - How long does the food set last?
39.56 - Where do you place food and how does it work with ant waste?
41.38 - How often do you feed, how often do you interact with the ants?

Shelter, rest, temperature
21.45 - What about temperature?
22.05 - Stress and shelter, how does that work? Light or dark?
22.35 - How often do you look at your ants?
24.17 - What should you do in winter?

Choice of Ants and products & other questions
3.15 - How can you convince your parents to get ants as pets?
5.13 - What should you do if you go on vacation?
16.30 - Can you breed a colony in a gel ant farm?
29.30 - Can you expand products (T-Farm), can you connect anything to it? When should you expand?
31.55 - Can you combine ant colonies?
33.00 - Can you add ants from the garden?
33.23 - Can you breed ants without a queen?
34.37 - Which ant farm do you choose for which ant species?
37.45 - Escaped ants, is that bad for nature?
38.57 - What do you do if you want to get rid of your ants?

Questions about Ant's Kingdom | Ant Farm
0.00 - Introduction to the origin of Ant Farm - Jan-Peter Oudenampsen
13.10 - Who sets the prices? Is it an expensive hobby?
14.57 - What is our favorite ant?
23.10 - Products in stock or not?
26.10 - Do we also ship to Belgium?
26.21 - Do we know the bullet ant, any idea to breed them?
27.15 - How do we make the products, anti-outbreak, food? Can you make it yourself?
30.30 - Do you also have ants in your private life?