The Ant as a Pet

If you want to start this unique hobby, how do you do it and what do you choose?
 

Watch the videos below where we explain and demonstrate the basics of the hobby. You can find more information below the videos.
 

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... if you want to stay informed, and read on below about ants as pets!

Choose an Ant Farm
In a gel specially developed for ants, you can clearly see how ants create a system of tunnels together. An ant family is suitable for this. An ant family is a group of worker ants.

Do you want to see how an ant colony develops? Then choose a plaster ant farm or a sand ant farm. You can observe the communication and cooperation between ants up close. You will also see how ants care for their queen, accept food, and furnish the nest. Even the process from egg to ant, the growth of your colony, can be followed this way.
 

Choose your ants
For your gel ant farm, choose an ant family, and for your ant farm with plaster, sand, or acrylic, choose an ant colony. We do not recommend placing an ant colony in a gel ant farm. This environment is too bright for brood development. The environment is also too bright for the queen. In practice, the ants will not dig then, but only protect the queen and the brood.
 

Care for your ants
Caring for an ant colony is easy; detailed information can be found in the booklet 'Ants are heroes', free with every Ant Farm. Suitable products for food, heating, and furnishing can be found in the care category.

Now you are ready for this new hobby. If you have any questions or are looking for a specific ant species or ant farm, please feel free to contact us!

We often get asked if you can breed ants in a gel farm. A gel farm is not suitable for that! It is only intended for observing the work of ants. That's why we don't offer an ant colony for it, but only a group of workers (without a queen).
 

Why keeping ants is easy and fun?
- Watch how the ant queen starts her colony in your farm.
- Cleaning? No, the ants take care of that themselves.
- This pet takes up little space; it fits almost anywhere.
- Watch as often as you like. And if you don't feel like it or don't have time: this pet doesn't ask you for anything.
- Observe how the ants live, play, and work together.
- The enclosure looks beautiful, so it can be placed anywhere; it doesn't look out of place even in the living room. And you won't be short of conversation starters!
- And then, last but not least: You feed the ant colony on average once a week with some sugar water, some small insects (like fruit flies), and a few drops of water, that's all! If you choose the gel version as an ant farm, you don't even have to give food and water; then you are all set for a longer period (but then choose an ant family) or combine with another (dark) enclosure for an ant colony!