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User Submitted Uncle Milton Ant Farm Gel Colony Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-09-30 Don't waste your money like I did!!!!!!!!!!!! I bought this for my 5-year old for Christmas, and waited until spring to order our ants. It took about 5 weeks or so to receive the ants, which was frustrating- but WOULD have been worth it had the ants had behaved as they claimed they would. I, too, received about 25 ants- 8 were D.O.A. That was a bummer since you alledgedly need a group of about 25 to live in the colony. We weren't discouraged at that point, and followed all of the instructions to a T- INCLUDING not moving/touching the habitat, so that the ants wouldn't "feel" harrassed! The most disappointing part- even though the ants lived from 1-3 months (which isn't even that great), they NEVER EVEN TRIED AT ALL to tunnel on their own. They lived miserably on top of the gel, playing with the dead ones and eventually piling them in a corner which became a grisly moldy scene. Date: 2007-09-27 Worthless and frustrating We had no problems receiving our ants - they came promptly and were healthy. For a day. Within hours the ants just started dying - the survivors piled all the dead ones in one spot on the top of the gel. A few valiant soldiers last for a couple of weeks, but they NEVER started tunnelling - they just crawled around on top of the gel and their dead friends. My sons were VERY disappointed in this experiment - I might be inclined to try a traditional ant farm - but never this again. Date: 2007-08-22 MOLD!!!!!!!!!!!! In the instruction book it says you can connect any ant farm brand habitat together using the antway travel tube connected to the antports. I connected my Uncle Milton's Ant Farm Gel Colony together with my regular Uncle Milton Ant Farm habitat. I followed all included instructions when setting up my ant farms. The ants did not tunnel in the the gel colony at all. Instead, they transported sand from the regular habitat through the antway travel tube and piled it on top of the gel in the gel colony. This caused the gel in the gel colony to get very moldy. Now my ants are dead and my ant farms are full of mold. If you are going to purchase this product do not connect a gel colony with a regular colony. Date: 2007-07-23 Horrible Disappointment Ahead if You Purchase This My 6yr old son rec'd this as a Christmas present only to find out the temperature has to be warm enough for them to ship the ants to your area(you pay add'l $3 S/H). Living in Michigan, we told him we'd send in the card for the ants on his birthday (the end of April). The ants (FINALLY) showed up.....crispy as KFC'S Original recipe. We emailed Uncle Milton Industries, we called U.M.I., nothing..... they're on Pacific time so try to coordinate that being on EST and you never get anyone. I called two minutes after they should've opened on the West Coast for business.... it rang through.... to a recording saying no one can help us now and hung up on me! Some customer service! I called again in the afternoon.... recording told me they're on break or go surfing or something from 2-4 and no one can take my call now. Please....... I was beginning to wonder if Uncle Milton was actually a business or a scam. Another tube of ants FINALLY showed up Saturday, July 21st.... they all looked healthy and were moving.... Sucess right?! NO! My ecstatic son eagerly awaited their recommened 15min of "fridge time" to calm them down. We put them in the gel colony. They moved around a little and seemed eager to bring doom to their lives by sticking their heads in the gel and suffocating themselves. As of this writing, we have two still struggling to live and the other 25-30 are dead and imbedded in the gel. What a MAJOR disappointed for my son. His daycare also got the same type of gel colony and half their ants arrived dead and the rest are dead now. If your gel colony and ants are working... congratulations; you're the minority. This is an awful gift and I'm only glad we didn't buy it ourselves and are only out the $3 for S/H. I would not recommend this to anyone. Date: 2007-07-02 This Ant Farm ROCKS! While it did take quite a while to get the ants, it was so worth it. I have it in my office at work and all my co-workers love to come and watch them. The tunnels that they are digging are amazing. I plan to get another to connect the two together.
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