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Should the article Ant Farm be merged with this article, or made to be a part of this article? There seems to be a lot of redundany. Feel free to send me a message. -Cdelosr1

Done. Peter O. (Talk) 14:33, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

anyone know what gel is used in this farm? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.153.70.160 (talk • contribs)

Although I myself am not sure, Wikipedia's reference desk may be able to be of assistance. +A.0u 04:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Agar but there are a bajillion types of agar. I'm looking for the recipe as well. I need a lot of it.

Do the ants become lazy, living in their own food like that? They don't have to hunt to find food, they just.. eat whatever's around?

Article states its a harder medium for them to dig in. I'm watching a ant farm right now and they like to dig just the same, gotta build a fortress, cemetary, lots of cavities,

I've talked to one company and they won't tell me the ingredients, say its a trade secret, although more than one company makes the agar type ant farms.

Also, it's said that NASA did the first agar ant farm in space tests. I imagine those documents are around some where?

I need a lot too, this company sells just the Agar, but I'd love to just make it myself. I think they said it was made from Algae? http://www.lanbogroup.com/cgi-bin/ccp/cp-app.cgi?usr=51J3111058&rnd=5929237&rrc=N&affl=&cip=67.164.65.21&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=lanbo104&cat=antbase&catstr=HOME:antbas

Here is the original experiment http://www.starsacademy.com/sts107/experiments/ants_top.htm http://www.starsacademy.com/sts107/experiments/ants/ants_images/habitat.htm and a pdf with more info http://www.starsacademy.com/sts107/experiments/ants/ants_images/01ICES-252.pdf

The original supplier of the algae agar for the experiment was "Plant Technologies Inc.", New Jersey



[edit] Capitalization of "Ant Farm"

If the expression "Ant Farm" is being used generically, instead of being used in reference to a particular branded product, would it not be correct to spell it as "ant farm" without capitalization? -- Wavelength (talk) 16:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)