AntopiaUSA Space Station Ant Farm Kit with Live Colony — Space Silver (Preorder, Ships Nov 16)

PREORDER — SHIPS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16. Your kit and colony leave our shop that day; arrival depends on the shipping method you choose at checkout.

Not a toy ant farm. A real ant keeping system with a living queen colony, built into a space station.

Space Station is the AntopiaUSA Desktop Ant Farm with a space station built into the frame, printed in Space Silver. The rooms are already formed, the front window is clear, and the outworld is where the colony comes out to eat and drink. You choose the colony that moves in.

Choose your colony

Pavement Ant (Tetramorium immigrans): 1 mated queen, 1-5 workers and brood.

Big-Headed Ant (Pheidole bicarinata): 1 mated queen, 5-10 workers and brood.

Red Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex rugosus): 1 queen, 1-5 workers and brood.

Acrobat Ant (Crematogaster cerasi): 1 queen, 30-50 workers and brood.

What's Included

Live colony of the species you choose

1 Space Station nest with doors and a clear front window

1 outworld

1 long double feeder with a 90-day maintenance pack: one Red Ant Drank tube and one RO water tube (13 x 100 mm)

Small container of Fluon with Q-tip applicator

4 test tubes (16 x 150 mm)

4 PVA sponges (blue or grey)

1 blackout shield

10-20 live mealworms (about a 40 day supply for a young colony, less for a larger one). Red Harvester colonies receive seeds in place of mealworms.

Feeding tweezers

1 small temple feeding dish

2 nest port plugs

Connector vinyl tubing (3/8 inch OD)

1 Space Station card whose QR code opens the family keepsake

Heat cable and thermostat are not included

A low-wattage heat cable on the nest end, run through a thermostat, is required. Required heating equipment must be obtained separately. Please don't substitute a heat mat or a heat lamp. Both heat too broadly, and they can dry out or overheat the nest. Never heat the whole nest — the ants need to be able to choose.

The family keepsake

The card in your kit opens a 30-page booklet for your theme. It is a digital download that you print at home, with setup pages for the grown-up, a story to read together, and pages a child fills in as you watch the colony over time.

Approved Shipping States

Each species may only be shipped to the states listed for it.

Pavement Ant (Tetramorium immigrans): Alabama · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Georgia · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kentucky · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Nebraska · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Oregon · Pennsylvania · South Carolina · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Virginia · West Virginia · Wisconsin

Big-Headed Ant (Pheidole bicarinata): Alabama · Arizona · California · Colorado · Delaware · Georgia · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Nebraska · Nevada · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · Ohio · Oklahoma · Pennsylvania · South Carolina · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · West Virginia · Wisconsin

Red Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex rugosus): Arizona · California · Colorado · Kansas · Nevada · New Mexico · Oklahoma · Texas · Utah

Acrobat Ant (Crematogaster cerasi): Alabama · Arizona · Arkansas · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Georgia · Idaho · Illinois · Iowa · Kansas · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming

Approved shipping states are listed above. If the species you ordered cannot be legally shipped to your state, we may substitute a comparable species of equal or greater value that we are approved to ship to your location, at our discretion. If we do not have a suitable substitute available, your order will be canceled and refunded minus a 15% restocking fee.

Live arrival guarantee: your colony is covered for 7 days from delivery. To qualify you must be present to receive the package, and you must contact us within 15 minutes of the delivery notification with clear photos or video of any substantial issue. We do not use signature confirmation, so please watch your tracking and don't let the box sit outside in heat or cold.

Every live ant order ships with heat packs or ice packs and an insulated box at no extra cost. These are always included in the shipping price.

We ship live ants Monday through Wednesday only, so no colony spends a weekend in transit. Preorders ship Monday, November 16.