Low Maintenance House Pet Alternatives: Best Presents Guide

Do you have a friend or maybe one of your own secret personalities lurking within that love pet animals but just can't seem to keep any of them alive? A person who no matter how much you were paid you would never dare leave to care for your pet goldfish? Try these low maintenance house pet alternatives, selected with your unlucky friend in mind.

Antworks Space Age Ant Habitat

Ants are one of the most intriguing organisms that happen to coexist with us on this planet. They are known for their advanced building strategies and their uncanny ability to work successfully as a team. Not to mention the fact that these tiny creatures that can shrink up to hide themselves in your sidewalk cracks or within the crevices of your food pantry shelves are quite the bodybuilders apparently, or so says the popular gossip. Did you know they can lift up to 20x their body weight? No, I'm really not kidding.

And that's only the beginning.

Ants are also extremely fun to watch. But if you've ever tried to make a realistic environment for your neighborhood ants to live and thrive in you are probably familiar with the major obstacle known as PROVIDING A CONSTANT FOOD SOURCE. Dead mosquitoes and sprinkles of sugar are awesome thoughts but who wants to keep up with the hunting and gathering process each day?

Exactly, me neither.

But you or your fellow ant enthusiast extraordinaire are just about to be very luckily informed when I tell you about a special type of ant farm that is not only a revolutionary example of our great world of science but is conveniently as well virtually no maintenance.

Enter Antworks, the "Space Age Ant Habitat", which pretty much looks and operates exactly how the name implies. This miraculous ant farm invention is the result of scientific studies from the geniuses at NASA. This brilliant development in the world of ant farms and ant collecting which also comes with a glow in the dark neon blue lamp component, is filled with a gel like substance that the ants can eat, build tunnels and perform other antlike functions. The perfect low maintenance house pet.

$29.99 from Think Geek

The Amazing Desktop Dinosaur Plant

This Dinosaur Plant, aptly named after it's Pre-Historic Era of birth, is the perfect house pet alternative for yourself or your friend who has trouble keeping things alive. This bizarre Evergreen will even outlive that friend who is nicknamed "cactus killer".

Picture an odd looking ball of grass that slightly resembles Chia Pet but is 100% more cool and to top it off, immortal.

This live Dinosaur Plant (officially called the Selaginaella Lepidophylla) is a stubborn life enthusiast. Even if you intentionally don't water this guy it will simply dry up and hibernate until you are ready to appreciate it again. Once you give it some water this seemingly dead Desktop Dinosaur Plant will miraculously jolt back to life.

And you can play this game with it over one hundred times.

$7.99 from Think Geek.

Triops Deluxe Kit

Triops are often referred to as tadpoles or shield shrimp, but I'm sure many would agree that these more familiar labels fail to deliver proper justice to the one of a kind members of the Triopsidae family whose physical characteristics and enigmatic survival strategies have kept their species alive and kicking since the Prehistoric Dinosaur age; this fact being much more impressive, most would agree, than even the most evolutionarily developed characteristic of the average tadpole.

These underwater dwellers are beautiful to watch in action. They are myriads of color in appearance and are graceful and acrobatic in the movements of their swim. With this Triops Deluxe Kit aquarium you'll be the coolest guy or gal in town. People will spread the word and start showing up in groups to your house just to see this awesome work of nature.

The Triops Deluxe Kit gives you a container to act as Triops habitat and the proper necessities and instructions on how to make these strange creatures hatch. This Triops hatch kit and aquarium habitat provides you everything you need to watch these prehistoric (and seemingly alien) organisms throughout the various stages of their life.

And the best part of all is that once you get through the potentially intimidating hatchery related steps, this low maintenance household pet alternative is practically self sufficient. According to many reliable sources in the world of science, these triops are virtually indestructible. Well, for the most part. Unfortunately your little underwater dancers will die if deprived of water but fortunately the embryos, through a process known as Diapause enter into a stage of suspended animation where they wait patiently for the water to return. At which point they can continue to grow into full size triops.

These are definitely miracles of nature that are worth witnessing up close and personally. Oh and did I forget to mention they have three eyes?

$14.99 from Think Geek.