Ant Antics Sugar Snaps Review
Bruma 4 min read
In short
Ant Antics sugar snaps are concentrated 10 ml sugary liquids in six flavors that you dilute with water to give ants energy. I recommend them over homemade sugar water because they also contain minerals and vitamins like B2 and B5, they last a long time, and my colonies love them.
Hi guys! I hope you’re doing well!
In this article, I’m going to review these really cool sugary liquids made by the popular ant-keeping company Ant Antics: the sugar snaps!
Let’s see if they are any good!
If you are interested, you can find the sugar snaps on the Ant Antics shop!
The Sugar Snaps
There they are! The iconic Ant Antics sugar snaps!
Apart from the ants, these are one of the best-selling products of this company, and rightfully so! These sweet liquids are the perfect source of sugar for your beloved pet ants!
As you can see, they are available in many different flavors! On their online shop, they currently offer six different flavors, each sweeter than the last! This one in particular, for example, is called blue slushie, and it’s made with some type of blue raspberry!
Some of the other available flavors are candy cane, strawberry swirls, plum, melon, and banana. As you can tell, you have plenty of options to choose from!
The little bottles in which they come contain 10 ml of super dense liquid, and contrary to what you may think, they actually last for a very long time! Given the super concentrated nature of the sweet liquid, you can mix it with large quantities of water without significantly lowering the sweetness of the product!
If you already have some large colonies and are thinking about getting these tasty sugary liquids, I would suggest you get a liquid feeder! Check out my review of the Anthouse 3D-printed liquid feeder!
Why Sugar?
OK, but why do I have to feed my ants sugar? Is it really necessary? Well, short answer: Yes!
Sugar is a particular type of carbohydrate and has an important role in the diet of ants. As you may already know, ants are among the hardest-working creatures in the animal kingdom! They always have something to do: finding a new food source, carrying extremely heavy objects to create amazing nest structures, and taking care of the new generation of young ants. They never stop!
All this uninterrupted work needs to be fueled by an immense amount of energy! And here comes the sugar! Sugar is one of the most calorie-dense substances you can find, and using it as the main energy source has many advantages:
- The first is that sugar is exceptionally lightweight! This simple but important characteristic gives sugar a tremendously high value-to-weight ratio, making transportation back to the nest highly efficient! The less energy you need to bring it back to the colony, the more energy remains for absorption!
- The second is that sugar is extraordinarily common in the wild! This simple carbohydrate can be easily found in many plants, in almost every fruit, and some kinds of insects can even produce it when needed! Some species of ants have actually learned how to farm aphids just to get some of their sweet honeydew! That’s so cool when you think about it!
In a nutshell, sugar is basically liquid energy for ants, and to acquire this extremely precious substance, they are willing to travel far and wide all over the world!
Another very popular product used in ant keeping to provide your ants with a source of healthy sugar is Anthouse jelly cups! These particular colored cups are extremely easy to find and very cheap!
Are They Really Worth It?
Now I know what you are all thinking. But why should I buy a sugary liquid when I can simply make it myself at home? That’s actually a very good question, and like all good questions, it deserves a proper answer!
In short, the sugar snaps are much more than simple sugar water! The liquids that Ant Antics provides are full of essential and beneficial substances, things that are not so easy to find at the grocery store!
Just to mention a few, the sugar snaps contain fructose, glucose, sodium, calcium, iron, magnesium, and much more! They even contain some vitamins, like vitamin B2 and vitamin B5! As mentioned before, they're much more than sugar water!
If you are on a budget and don't want to spend too much money on these amazing little bottles, you can check out this guide on how to start ant keeping with $1! Yeah, just $1!
Do Ants Like It?
But will my ants like it?
Well, I have been testing the sugar snaps for some time now, and I can confidently say that my colonies love them! Every time I put some drops of this sugary liquid inside the outworld, a swarm of ants instantly appears out of nowhere, assaulting the precious substance as if there’s no tomorrow!
They drink every single drop I give them in a matter of minutes! Like a bunch of jaguars hunting for their appetizing prey! It’s really cool watching the ants completely fill their gaster and bring it back to the nest, sharing the newly found food source with all the other members of the colony! Ants are such unselfish animals!
I hope you have found this guide helpful!
If you like product reviews like this one, I would definitely suggest you check out my Esthetic Ants Ytong nest review! In it, I list the pros and cons of this type of material.
FAQs
5Sugar Snaps are sugary liquids made by the ant-keeping company Ant Antics, sold as a food source for pet ants. They come in small 10 ml bottles of very dense liquid and are one of the company's best-selling products. In my experience they last a very long time.
Ant Antics currently offers six Sugar Snaps flavors on its online shop: blue slushie, candy cane, strawberry swirls, plum, melon and banana. The blue slushie, for example, is made with some type of blue raspberry. Each one comes in a small 10 ml bottle, so you have plenty of options to choose from.
To use Sugar Snaps, mix the concentrated liquid with water and offer it to your ants with a liquid feeder. Because the liquid is so concentrated, you can add a lot of water without losing much sweetness. I also put a few drops directly inside the outworld, and my colonies swarm them.
Ants need sugar because it is a calorie-dense carbohydrate that fuels their constant work, from finding food to carrying heavy objects and caring for young ants. Sugar is also very lightweight, so it is efficient to carry back to the nest, and it is extremely common in the wild, in plants and fruit.
Yes. Sugar Snaps are much more than sugar water: besides fructose and glucose, they contain sodium, calcium, iron, magnesium and vitamins like B2 and B5, which are not easy to find at the grocery store. And my colonies love them: they drink every drop I give them within minutes.
Product Review
Sugar Snaps
A very cool and useful ant keeping product. With these fantastic colorful little bottles you can give your ants a very high-quality source of sugar, fueling their all-day-long working routine! With the sugar snaps you can be sure about one thing: your ants are going to love them!
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