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Tarek and Christina El Moussa felt the sting of the housing bubble's burst like Realtors across the country.
When their business failed, they traded in their $6,000-a-month mortgage for $700-per-month apartment rent (with a roommate), swapped luxury cars for modest ones and shared Subway sandwiches – all while expecting the birth of their first child.
The El Moussas have bounced back – now the family business is flipping ant farms, a career move that has landed them a totally new reality series, "Ant Farm Flip or Flop," on HGTV.
Tarek And Christina Are All Smiles After
The First Ant Farm Flip Or Flop Show Debut
The First Ant Farm Flip Or Flop Show Debut
And in every Ant Farm Flip Or Flop episode, Tarek and Christina bring the viewer a lot deeper than ever before down the Ant Farm Flip Or Flop rabbit hole revealing the trials and tribulations of ant farm flipping. On every show you'll find out what actually happened to all of the ant farms that they have received, before and during the renovation/remolding fabrication process, good or bad.
You'll also get to experience the more memorable moments that happen while they're filming the Ant Farm Flip Or Flop show. Such as when Tarek and Christina are shocked by all of the new projects that come up that weren't planned for or scheduled but now having been determined by their own team of ant farm specialists as needing to be done in designing all of their new ant farms that need to be shipped out.
Christina And Tarek Use Only State Of The Art Equipment
Old Ant Farms Are Recycled Here
Tarek and Christina And One Of Their Talented Ant Farm Specialist
Discuss The Process Behind Their Ant Farm Designs On The Dr's Show
Discuss The Process Behind Their Ant Farm Designs On The Dr's Show
Most of the designs done by Ant Farm Flip Or Flop are filled with a space-age gel. This type of ant habitat is the product of a NASA experiment to see if ants could survive in zero gravity. The gel is designed to provide all the water and nutrients required to sustain the ants for their normal lifespan.
As the gel material is foreign to ants, it may take them a few days to realize that they can eat the gel and to start tunneling. Ant Farm Flip Or Flop ant farms come with a tool for starting tunnels, and the ants may build on this tunnel or they may just follow your example and create their own tunnels.
HGTV's New Ant Farm Flip Or Flop Show Crew
By watching Ant Farm Flip Or Flop you'll not only get to experience the emotional rollercoaster that goes into ant farm flipping but you'll also get to live out your dream of flipping ant farms without spending a dime.
When asked if Tarek and Christina are both happy now, they both emphatically say, "that they both feel like a million bucks and that they love the ideal of flipping ant farms and that they couldn't imagine doing anything else. And that they've dedicated their lives to this new business. And besides business is booming!"
Standard Ant Farm
Ant farm After Renovation With Neon Lights
Ant Farm After Renovation With Neon Lights
Another Standard Ant Farm
Renovated Ant Farm
Christina And Tarek stand by their ant farms and would like you to know these facts about their very special ant farms.
4 TIMES LARGER than other Gel Farms!
Plus LIGHTS UP.
This amazing gel eco-terrarium reproduces life in a terrarium.
Watch ants dig tunnels and the plants develop their roots before your eyes.
This unique gel is perfect for the ants to dig their tunnels and provides all their food and water.
The gel also allows you to grow seeds (provided) and watch the ants working their way around the roots in a perfectly balanced ecosystem the same way they do underground in nature.
Includes clear nutrient gel you mix yourself, a curved ant farm, seeds, magnifying glass, ant catching/tunnel starter tool, LED base and easy instruction sheet.
LIVE arrival guaranteed.
Ages 4 and up with adult supervision!
This item has the extra step of mixing the special gel and adding it to the habitat.
BATTERIES REQUIRED. It takes three 1.5V AG13 button batteries, not included.
We Deliver Worldwide!
Orders Go Out The Day We Get Them!
Christina says each ant farm will arrive with a very special gift from her and Tarek!
Recent Builds With Newly Populated Ant Colonies
Favorite Build To Date! Recommended Age 4-13
Looks Like The Ants Are Tunneling Through Ice
New Modular Designs
Christina, Tarek And Friends Celebrate
Their New Ant Farm Flip Or Flop Show
Tarek Celebrates His Awesome
New Ant Farm Flip Or Flop Show
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