We last left our hero Zed in his blue goo habitat with three other ants. Two of them were lazy, lazy jerks. One of the other three decided to no longer be lazy and become Zed's partner in the construction of the tunnels. (Let's call him Ned, if only because Ned is still a bit odd and lazy ( Read more... )

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That is the link to the first day photos of my antworks farm. I also will upload pictures later of some of their tunneling progress that happened in a period of one week. I've updated that ( Read more... )

The one ant continues to work like crazy, while the other four hang around above the blue goo mocking him. I thought yesterday that there was going to be another sex orgy death, but I was mistaken. It turns out that I think that one of the lazy thinks that the blue goo (which is also their food and water) is the equivalent of eating fresh puke. ( Read more... )

My best friend instant messaged me stating that she hopes I get replacement ants soon. I have to agree. If it goes any longer, I'm going to have to name the five ants left.

Suggestions?

So the ant that was playing dead in one of the tunnels. I think it did die. But ( Read more... )

The seven surviving ants spent approximately 48 hours recovering from the stress of being mailed in a squashed vial and losing their friends. Or maybe the others weren't their friends and they are thrilled at losing those a$$holes, who knows ( Read more... )

I bought one of those blue goo outerspace ant farms last week and immediately went online to order the ants. I expected them sometime next week, but they arrived today! I was so excited!!! Notice the key word of was. The vial that contained the 25 ants was broken open and most didn't survive the trip. We now have seven highly traumatized ants ( Read more... )