My Ant Universe

I saw this Ant Universe online and was interested to buy it and rear ants. It is a plastic flat aquarium with blue colour gel. To my surprize, I actually saw it at the souvenir shop in Science Centre and it cost SGD 30. So I quickly bought it to create my own ant universe.

Catching ants is a challenge as you need to be fast to keep it in a small container. However putting the ants in the aquarium is even more challenging, as once you put 1 in another will escape. So I decided to put a clear plastic tube as a passageway for the ants to travel in. At least with that, it slow down the ants from inside to escape as it needs time to travel through the passage way and before they can move to the exit we have already closed the exit.

So have a look at the aquarium at Day 1 when we just put in the ants (you can see the passageway is still there, as some ants still stay in the passageway so I cannot remove it till Day 3 when the ants are all in the aquarium.

Forgot to mention that the ant universe is not for rearing ants only, the interesting part is to see how they dig tunnel, so you can actually see my pic on Day 3 has tunnel dig by the ants already. Soon the whole aquarium will have a network of tunnels.

Day 1

Day 3