Just as advertised

The media could not be loaded. Of course there's always a concern when you're dealing with living things, and some reviews said they received dead ants... But my experience was perfect. The ants arrived alive and well! I DID FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY! I watched my mailbox daily, so when they arrived they'd only been in the mailbox less than an hour. They were in a white envelope marked Open Immediately ~ so I did. The 2 plastic tubes of ants were taped to an instruction card. Since they came 4 days earlier than expected (they were for my grandson's birthday on Saturday, and they arrived on Tuesday) I decided to keep them temporarily in a glass canning jar with a screen on the lid, so he could set the ant farm up and add them himself. I put a small wadded up ball of papertowel moistened with water in the bottom of the jar, so they'd have water without drowning them. Then I put the tubes of ants in the refrigerator (which is 38 degrees F.) for 10 minutes, not 15 minutes. They were still moving a bit, but very slow. Just right for tapping them down to the bottom of the tube, removing the orange stopper, and dropping them in the jar, (which they can't quite climb to the top!) The orange stopper on the tube was really stuck-on tight!! So I had to use a kitchen towel to get a good grip on it, twist it HARD to get it to come off. I think they're going to do fine until Saturday. I'll do a follow-up review in a week to let everyone know how it went :-D Oh! also the store is WONDERFUL with email! I've emailed them several times, and I get a response within hours, or minutes! GREAT Service. Signed, happy customer "Joy"

ANTS TOGETHER STRONG

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First of all, we purchased the ant farm thinking the ants came with it. I had read others that said they didn't and I guess I just missed it on the one we did order. Also, just an FYI, when we were looking at farms to order, my grandson said that a friend of his got one with gel in it and the ants died. So they took the gel out, put sand in it and the ants thrived. I saw someone else say they were having issues with their ants not doing well in gel, so I thought I'd share this. We got one with sand and these ants are thriving. Also, I placed two orders for ants. One from this seller and one from another. This seller ships the ants in viles. It makes it very easy to put them in the farm. The other seller uses a tub and it's much harder to put the ants in the farm out of the tub. When I order more, I'll order from this company. Thank you for the fun watching!