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What made me want to keep ants is that youtube recommended me a video of ant keeping a few months ago and ever since i keep remembering it and trying to figure out how to get a colony started. Right now Nuptial Flights of the species i want to keep are happening, but i do not have access to any stores/ materials to make a outworld and nest, and i am quickly running out of time.
I have started my fist colony of Anoplolepis gracilipes it have only one worker, what made me want to keep ants is that I always had been interested on ants, how they live, how they behave and how they eat their preys, finally like a month ago I catched a queen and it started laying eggs, other times I tried to rise a colony of trap-jaws but feral ants kill them, so I was very happy when the queen survived.(sorry for the english, my mother lenguage is spanish).
Joemari Tancuevas Yeah and you can tell canada is in it for the money in his store 160 bucks for one outworld that isnt very big while in aus its 50 with tubing
When I found a queen ant on a school field trip, I was amused. I said to my friend “oh look a queen ant” replied “I know someone who keeps ants. Let me get them.” The other kid began to get extremely excited and captured it to keep. I wanted to experience that excitement, so I got into antkeeping. Added to that, we became very good friends thanks to the hobby.
It began for me in my garden where a colony of ants started to move in under an old wall, instead of removing it I decided to let them be and observe their behavior. I was fascinated by their sheer power and determination and decided to learn more about them. I found channels like you that showed that you can keep ants and learn about their world. I've had several colony's over the years I kept ants but none that special as the ant colony in my backyard
Wow, these naturalistic formicariums are beautifully made! The video is so well organized too, which is what I love about your channel. Looking forward to more :D
As a biology grad student, I have always loved nature and I think ants are one of the most interesting animals. Their solical interactions as well as their capability to create complex nests and tunnels are unique and amazing to witness. I started keeping my own ants around 8 months ago. Right now I have 3 small ant colonies which passed their founding stage and they are growing fast!
I began keeping ants from one day stumbling upon AntsCanada's RUclips channel. From there I found your channel, and many many others! From there on I was absolutely hooked up collecting, & keeping ants. Cut to a year later, I now have over close to 30 different species. So, thank you, for helping me gain such an appreciation for these little critters!
Ever since I was a kid I have always been fascinated with Ants. About how colonies thousands strong can live as one organism each ant is a small cog in a huge machine. I love most of all how orgonised they are from digging out their colonies to taking down pray and finding food. I dont yet have my own farm as i have never had suitable living conditions, now I do i have been looking in to starting my own. :D
AntsCanada is the first channel i discovered about Ant Keeping. Which in turn led me to find this channel. Watching how amazing it can be to keep ants has really opened my eyes to the lives of insects and their world. I am currently not keeping ants because i haven't been able to find a queen. Currently looking for Camponotus or Carpenter ants before their nuptial flights come to an end.
What made me want to keep ants is the beautiful process of raising them, the exciting moment when you find your first queen is a feeling unlike any other its an amazing experience and makes you realize the little things are way bigger then they seem and how amazing nature really is also your videos made me want to keep them you showing how cool and delicate they are really made my mind think deeper and i was so fascinated in way i never thought i could be thanks.
venlo zuid NONONO- They’ll climb over and fall out of the cage, then being unable to get back in- Put it right under the rim on the inside, liquid baby powder works, it dries and the ants fall harmlessly, it’s easy to apply too. Needs constant watch at times, and often needs to be reapplied.
I watched this just to make the massive fish tank enclosure with no Ants, they’ve always seemed so complicated to keep and I just wanted a nice little ecosystem with plants and good soil to make for my springtails, isopods, millipedes, etc. Thanks for the tutorial!
My 5yo ASD son today became very interested in ANTS after being bitten by a young "Jumping Jack" ant during his playtime at our local park. On his return home he excitedly started talking about ants to his father that my darling hubby begged me to try and change ours sons obsession. I instead embraced my lil mans obsession because I wanted him to have the same love for animals, insects and reptiles that my father gave me. So after our quick google search we happened upon your RUclips channel and within hours watched several of your videos my son piped up and asked if we can make our own ant colony. So tomorrow we will be starting our new science project for his Homeschooling class!!
I love keeping ants because when I was little my big brother inspired me to explore our world. Both of learned to love nature and ants threw your ant youtube channel and now I keep ants. Thanks For The Inspiration Ants Australia
my interest in ants all started when I was browsing youtube and came across its Canada and started watching his channel ant eventually came across yours and since then I have been a regular watcher of your videos and just this past week I decided to keep my first queen ant a black crazy ant she currently has no workers and is in a small test tube set up but she has plenty of brood. So thank you for sparking my interest in these wonderful creatures! :)
This year, I've begun researching nuptial flight schedules because I'm planning to start keeping ants. For most of my life, I've been in therapy for an anxiety disorder and a variety of crippling phobias including insectophobia and trypophobia, both of which made ants terrifying. Years ago, just talking about larval species of insect would make me panic and scratch my skin bloody. Watching RUclips videos by AntsCanada and this channel in addition to therapy have helped me warm up to ants and some other insect species slowly. There are still many insects that I am afraid of or uncomfortable with, but I have learned to appreciate the beauty of ants and I want to celebrate this major step in overcoming my phobias by raising and keeping a colony of my own in a naturalistic terrarium set up, because like you said for some people watching the ants come up to forage and occasionally seeing just glimpses of their nesting activity below can be more than enough.
Why I wanted to keep ants? I honestly hated ants and had a phobia towards ants. But slowly watching your videos it made me curious to see how ant keeping would be. I slowly gained confidence and started to keep ants. Now I have over 8 colony's! Thanks Jordan!
When I was a lot younger (5-10) I used to watched documentaries on the natural world for fun, as I was drawn to the natural beauty, and thus started keeping some exotic pets and animals. Keeping ants has been a great experience and given me a good upfront and personal look into the natural world. Also love the vids, keep up the good work👍
I wanted to keep ants because of your videos! I started only recently but my first colony is expanding slowly. I wanted to watch my colony form from one queen and I wasn’t let down. I was amazed and can’t imagine me not keeping ants so I’ll keep going. Thanks for introducing me to this great hobby!
I started keeping ants because I have always had a love for insects and animals. It is so amazing being able to look after your own little ant city and see what kind of interesting things they do. Keep up the great vids.
Ever since I was a kid I was fascinated by ants. The way the work together, their life cycle... Everything. I was unable to keep them as a kid due to my perents, but as an adult I couldn't wait to capture my first queen during nuptial flights and start a colony. There is something magical about seeing directly into the ants founding chambers and witnessing the beginning of a colony.. It's like nature is sharing a secret with you. That's why I wanted to keep ants.
I started keeping ants one year ago because I came across youtube videos of ant keeper sharing their experiences (like you) and it all reminded me my love for ants when i was a kid :)
I had once kept ants as a hobby. I religiously scanned Facebook groups for information aswell as care tips and help. However, due to the unpopularity of ants near and around me. Both my parents have made clear to not want any living in their house. However, this brings me to the reason I have not rejoined the hobby as of yet. I have chosen a new hobby that endulges the true beauty of nature. That is fish keeping. My once deep love of ants had transgressed into an appreciation for fish. Thanks Dean, you initial content on this channel is what inspired me to keep ants in the first place.
The first I heard about ant keeping was from RUclips. I realised their beauty and enjoyed watching them on RUclips. After learning how easy it is to keep them, I realised it fitted my requirements: low maintenance, fish tank sized and one which will not poop all over the house.so I Wan to keep ants .
Creepy Cookie personally I feel like aa is better. Here we get true facts and tips about ants. But ac just entertain and clickbaits, he also recommends digging which I am strongly against. Aa digs only to stop invasions.
My ants have walled themselves in a test tube! I placed the tube in a small formicarium with some sand and few rocks and sneaky bastards have used the sand to build a 5mm wall in the tube. What's that all about?
As a little kid I have always tried to keep ants. But I never had the knowledge to do so properly and they always ended up poorly. 20 years later with the help of great ant loving RUclipsrs sharing ant knowledge, has given me the ability to care for ants properly. Caught a queen this summer and am so excited to care for them and watch them grow. The unity of ants is astounding and mesmerizing.
Ants really changed my life , I used to mess about in life and school , but when I first caught my first Camponotus? Queen I was so fascinated by everything she did , from laying eggs to drinking honey. Now I focus a lot better at school and our new biology topic is social insects! I’ve watched you since your updates on the big headed ants and I want to say thanks for all the great tips on raising queens and colony’s , your video helped me raise a carpenter ant colony 100s of ants strong , Keep up the fantastic work!
After seeing one of your video's quite a while ago, I started keeping these little creatures. They now live in a self-made ytong nest wich I made after your tuturial: how to make an aac nest. And I got another small colony living in a single test tube at the moment😀😀
I have been working as an early educator at a preschool in Southern Vermont for the past three years. Having much appreciation and love for science and nature I strive to bring elements of the outdoors into the classroom. Having a natural ant farm would serve as an ongoing incredibly rich educational experience for the children. It would not only teach them how to love the earth, but also develop empathy and curiosity from a scientific approach!
What made me want to keep ants is your and every ant you tubers videos. Ants were so interesting and I’ve always had a connection with nature. Also, I’ve now got a Formica queen ready so that I can start Ants America. I know, it’s very original.
My 4 year old son was stung by an ant about 6 months ago, and was really upset. To try to explain to him (and my 5 year old daughter) that to an ant he was a very scary giant, and he got stung because the ant was afraid, I turned to RUclips. Since then, both the kids and I have been raptured watching and learning about ants and how they are kept as pets. I have since caught both kids following wild ants around the garden, and found myself watching ant videos long into the night. Mum is certainly not convinced about ant keeping however... Yet
From a young age I was always fascinated with the small world of insects and other critters. I would spend hours watching documentaries on nature and I would find myself glued to the screen whenever ants were showcased, their cooperation, and persistence in any obstacle thrown at them made them stand out to me. Then one day I was walking my dog and saw a particularly large ant, I went home looked into it and found out it was a queen ant and my passion was ignited again for ants, after that I spent hours upon hours reading up on ants and watching various videos on youtube. This summer I caught my first Camponotus queen and can't wait to see it expand and grow into a massive ant empire!
I started ant keeping just now. I have 7 queens with 0 workor, I found them about a week ago and I really love watching them laying eggs. I watched a lot videos about ant keeping and now I have my own queens it's amazing for me. I watched a lot of your videos and I learned a lot from them about ant keeping. Thank you very much.
I never knew much about ants but after watching this channel I became fascinated with ants and other insects alike. This drove my now growing obsession with ants and other insects . I know properly understand and appreciate these wonderful little creatures. All this finally lead me to keep my own colonies of ants such as mymicra rubra, which is the one I have now.
what made me want to keep ants: one day last autumn, I was walking through a nice forested path near my neighborhood, and I saw an absolutely gorgeous ant. The worker was a beautiful dark reddish-brown with a bright, amber colored gaster. I snapped a few pics, and set out to find out what species she was. I later found out that the species was Aphaenogaster Tennesseensis, which is one of the rarest kept captive species of ants due to the fact that the queens are social parasites, and raising them in captivity almost never works. I eventually wanted to learn everything I could about ants, watch every ant video on the internet, especially the ones from this channel, and I wanted to find out all of the species native to my area. That day in the forest, or rather, that one single worker alone sparked my interest in ants, and is now the reason that I have 3 colonies, one of which is a colony Aphaenogaster Tennesseensis that has begun producing alates, and 2 more founding queens. I don't think I can ever forget that one lonely worker and all she has done for me.
I have been interested in ants since I found the AntsCanada channel and the AntsAustralia channel about a year ago and I've been debated for the longest time if I wanted to catch a queen and raise a colony and that dilemma has been going on for weeks now. In the end the debating was all for not because.......... I woke up for work yesterday at 5am and went to use the washroom like a champ. So I'm sitting there casually taking a dump minding my own business and at some point during the previous night a Tetramorium caespitum dewinged alate wandered in through the balcony asking for my help to start her colony like it was my destiny.
I started keeping ants because of your videos in youtube. I was amazed of how organised and brilliant they are as a colony. Your 3 part ants raising tutorial got me to smoothly start my very first colony. Thank you so much for your vids. God bless your channel!!
I have always had a fascination of insects, so I wasn't surprised when a ant video popped up in my RUclips recommended bar (it was one of your older videos) and ever scince I have been learning off you tube and have been growing my own colonies I know have a golden tail camponotus colony 43 workers strong. And that's how I got into ant keeping. Thanks
I started keeping ants for two reasons. Firstly, because the practice of observing and caring for ants is meditative and calming. Secondly, because watching the colonies slowly grow and persist in problem-solving inspires me to be patient and persistent myself in daily life.
What made me want to keep ants was my love for overseeing them and helping take care of them. Ant-keeping in a way makes me feel like a God or a protector. These ants think as one, as a colony. They're not selfish, and are smarter and more unique than one might think. So, taking good care of these ants makes me feel like I, myself, am a part of the colony too. I also love spotting differences within different species of ants. Each specie is special in their own little way.
Ants australia and ants canada are what made me want to keep ants, I absolutely love the feeling of providing the recources to a social organism to grow into a massive army. I have to thank ants Australia because his videos really helped me during my first year of ant collecting, now i have a 150+ colony of camponotus noveboracensis, and i absolutely love to feed them and watch them.
I have looked at many documentaries and I always found the parts about ants the most interesting. How they comunicate, search food, work together, overcome obstacles and the huge amount of diversity. I went on a research about ants and found out about the ant keeping hobby. It wasn't long after that, that I catched my firts ant queen.
Wow. Came back to look at your channel and this was 2 years ago. I remember that I was at the airport waiting for a flight when I say your new video pop up and I watched it. It was only 2 years ago but it somehow feels nostalgic. Thanks for the memories :D
Na ants canada is more about the views which is good for us but not as good for the ants that huge vivarium is super cool though i love it@skunksquad75688
I've always loved ants because of their power tot work together without speaking to each other. Then i found your channel and began waiting for the nuptial flights!
What made me keep ants was watching AntsCanada’s videos with my friend after he introduced the channel to me. After a couple of months I found your channel and watched the video how to catch a queen ant and decided to look for my own. I loved seeing the colonies move as a whole to accomplish a single goal. It truly made me see ants in a new way.
I discovered a video about ant keeping and it really leave me in an awe. As i dig deeper about ants it gives me a feeling of excitement, curiosity and knowledge. After that day i decided not just to be an ant keeper but also a biologist.
I have always had an interest in ants right from a young age. I experimented with trying to keep ants and also build formicariums, but didn’t have much success. Then one day I did a search and found your website. It looked so easy and finally I could keep ants and study them. After watching a few of your intro videos I went straight out looking for queens. Within a couple of weeks I had two queens, they are still going after nearly a year, housed in your acrylic nests. They are awesome to watch, I’m now looking for a bull ant queen. Thanks so much for your videos and website. Keep up the awesome work.
I have been interested in keeping ants since I was around 9 years old. What hooked me to these insects is how intelligent and well coordinated they can be and watching them grow from the very start is so satisfying.
I have always loved small critters as a child but I say a video about ants a few years back and realized how amazing they are, I tried to make a ant nest by putting ants in a tub of dirt but of course that did not go well and I gave up soon after, but about a year ago I watched all of your how to raise an ant nest series and figured out what I did wrong and now all thanks to you I have a susscessful ant colony of Formica fuscas. I started raising ants because of there shear beauty and because of you to!
I always used to keep ants when I was younger, but I only collected workers because i didn’t know how to catch a queen. A few months back, I was bored on RUclips and searched up scorpion feeding videos. It was here that I came across a channel called ‘The Dark Den’. After watching this channel for a couple of hours, I came across a video about an ant colony of his. While watching it, I relived memories of ant keeping as a child, and started to keep ants.
what made me want to keep ants: RUclips. i saw people like you caring for and showing off these beautiful creatures and i wanted to do the same. you are one of the people who inspired me most to keep ants because all of your videos are showing off the joy people can get from ant keeping. now i keep ants myself and its just as great as you make it seem!
Stumbled upon one of AntsCanada's videos and soon found myself on this channel. I've always been interested in entomology, and this seemed a perfect (and low-effort) opportunity to keep some close at hand. I've now got four young colonies on my desk with me as I work every day!
I first saw this channel and have been binge watching every single video! You have a great way of talking and the tone of your voice seems like you're really excited to share the world of ants! Someday I hope I can be an antkeeper like you!
I always wanted to keep ants since i was a kid but i only started when i found youtube channels like yours with really helpful guides and everything. I watched tons of videos for a year or so and learned so much, so thanks for that. Last year i started antkeeping and now i have a camponotus colony which i raised from a single queen and 2 lasius flavus colonies.
What made me keep ants? Well you and other youtubers like you did! I always wanted a insect pet but I could never choose one... then I found your channel and after that I started learning about ants and now I am keep queen ants in a test tube set up and I’m really excited because she laid 7 eggs. Ants have inspired me to appreciate nature more and what role ants play in it. I thank you and other RUclipsrs for an experience like this.
I got to antkeeping just by simply watching ants, i watched what are they doing and it was quite interesting so i searched on youtube things like how to catch a queen and other videos related to ants. They are very hardworking creatures. And one day i found a Campanotus queen. And till now i have like 10 queens with 5-10 workers per tube. And i still got my first Campo queen. I have them 4 months but i started learning about ants past year🙂Thanks you Ant Australia for helping me with my antkeeping hobby, you have awesome channel
I'm glad that all the ant channels have started using more natural nests. I started to keep mine in big dirt setups a couple of years ago as I wanted to see how different species nested in soil. It also allowed me to give the ants more room as in have two species of ponerine ants which hunt their food individually. I even keep a termite colony in a dirt setup.
What made me want to start keeping ants, was the way the ants seemingly work perfectly together. The teamwork, and time spent invested in anything they see fit doing until its accomplished. They work harmoniously together, and tiny organisms, when banded together can accomplish great feats.
well first of all you did you inspired me to keep them. i have been a fan of your channel. when was 8 years old i had this passion of keeping them. thank you
Ive got a friend at school keeping ants and he is very joyful about it so i started to look after them when he was on holiday ( with permission obviously) and i love the way the scurry around. I havent started ant keeping yet as i dont have the money to do so, but i will start this month when my friend swaps nests for his nigers and ill buy his old nest off of him.
What made me want to keep ants was the ability to watch a whole empire grow that you take care of and make sure stay healthy and there is soooo much to learn about all sorts of different species I see almost no reason not to keep them and has been one of the most entertaining this I have done ever.
This video is sooooooo cool!!!! We found it when we were researching homage ant habitats and this is so inspirational!!! We are already making notes for our habitat!
A small ant species invaded my Florida, USA home. Needless to say they could not stay, but one colony moved into my stovetop grill. It is a large stovetop with a built in grill and I rarely use it, so I to decided observe this particular colony. To keep them somewhat contained, I put food and a water soaked paper towel out for them. I am intrigued with how well they work together! It has been a few months now and it is time they moved out. I have discovered that I may be able to get them to move into a formicarium, if I do it right. What a new and interesting hobby to learn about at age 71!
Hi ! I have started keeping ants since the last 10 days and I have been reading about them for two monthes now ! I think I have discovered this beauty of life by looking at animals during my exam week. I'm studying physics and cellular biology because I want to do Medical Imaging. However, with my studies I never had the time to look at nature. And now this has changed thanks to three RUclips channels (including yours and I thank you for that). To sum up, keeping ants is for me a way to remember how beautiful wild life is, even when I can't go outside looking at nature. Thanks a lot.
What got me into keeping ants is videos of them living in natural setups, I found it very cool that you can make your own mini world for something living and breathing that will enjoy a non-artificial place to live. This also got me into reptile keeping.
I've always wanted an ant farm but never really knew how to start one. When I stumbled across tutorial videos on how to catch a queen and start your own farm is when I finally started my own farm.
I'm keeping my Ants because.. Since I saw Antscanada, you and Ant vision I been trying to grow my own colony with two queens and seven eggs. These canponotes spp. species has giving me a lot of interest of all Insekts and animals. And I've been watching Ant RUclipsrs for years. 🐜🐜❤️ **Ant Love Forever**
The thing that made me want to keep ants was videos on RUclips like yours, also, I have been interested in insects from a young age, as I wondered how they interacted with each other. I know have two queens that I have in a test tube set-up. They are my first, I hope that they do well!
What made me want to keep ants was just the beauty of them and just the simple things they do, by me watching them do these things it just makes me feel closer to them. Now at school my friends call me ant boy because of how much I know, but ever since I was a kid I would watch these creatures in my backyard for ages.
I just find it so interesting watching a colony growing up. It's like a human community, like they think about every step. They have a place where they put their garbage, a place where the queen breeds, a place where they put their eggs and so on. They always have a plan. That's what made me keeping ants. Watching them gives me a feeling of order in this messy world.
I’m so excited about starting my own bull ant colony. Thank you for all the teaching and love. I’m at the Gold Coast and have an abundance of ants around. I used to get laughed at for saving ants from the pool, now I have realised the amazing fun they can be for someone who works a lot and needs a fun low maintenance pet. In saying that I have 2 dogs a cat and a snake. 😁
I am not currently keeping many ants as I have not been able to find many queens, but I'd love to be able to keep more when I have more access to time. Like you, I have had a massive interest in the natural world since I was young, but as I got older my love for nature, sadly, began to diminish. A couple of years ago I was just browsing youtube and I saw one of Mikey Bustos' videos with an extremely clickbait title in my suggested videos (Something like "MY FIRE ANTS ESCAPED EVERYWHERE"). I decided to click on it thinking it was childish of me but after I watched the video I was hooked. I then went and binge-watched all of his videos, and found my way to your channel (I love Mikey, but I personally prefer your content, maybe because you are closer to home, in Australia, and your titles are less clickbait-y). Your videos renewed my love of the natural world and truly showed me how beautiful ants (and other bugs) can be. Your videos started what would eventually snowball into inspiring me to begin studying biology at college.
I've always liked keeping animals. When i was little i tried to keep bees...but that didn't work out tho, so i tried keeping ants in a ''tic tac'' container and i rly enjoyed watching them dig tunnels. Later on i discovered a few ant chanels like this one and that just pushed me to start ant keeping for real.
I got into ant keeping is when I woke up and I saw a you alate on my desk, I was going to throw it out of the window but then I wanted to explore and keep here! So I went on RUclips and found your amazing channel which now the queen is thriving in my setup a Pheidole colony to be specific! Amazing vid loved the info!
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Hi guys. Hope you found this video of help! Just wanted to let you all know I've just launched a Patreon page! www.patreon.com/antsaustralia
I’ve always been reluctant to make demands upon you guys. Very rarely do ask anyone to like or share my content. Which begs the question, “why start a Patreon page?” Well, what changed my mind was the realisation that, without the support of donations, pursuing my dream of producing Ants Australia videos full-time, simply can’t be done. Any contribution vastly exceeds individual ad revenue here on RUclips. So if you enjoy my content, and want to see more, please consider chipping in. I’d like to thank you all for your overwhelming support throughout the years. Whether that be through your donations, inspiring words, or just your silent attention :)
What made me want to keep ants is that youtube recommended me a video of ant keeping a few months ago and ever since i keep remembering it and trying to figure out how to get a colony started. Right now Nuptial Flights of the species i want to keep are happening, but i do not have access to any stores/ materials to make a outworld and nest, and i am quickly running out of time.
Also i find you to be alot better than ants canada becuase he uses clickbait, and builds up fake drama while you just get to the point and are honest.
I have started my fist colony of Anoplolepis gracilipes it have only one worker, what made me want to keep ants is that I always had been interested on ants, how they live, how they behave and how they eat their preys, finally like a month ago I catched a queen and it started laying eggs, other times I tried to rise a colony of trap-jaws but feral ants kill them, so I was very happy when the queen survived.(sorry for the english, my mother lenguage is spanish).
Joemari Tancuevas Yeah and you can tell canada is in it for the money in his store 160 bucks for one outworld that isnt very big while in aus its 50 with tubing
Ants Australia how do you get y tong
When I found a queen ant on a school field trip, I was amused. I said to my friend “oh look a queen ant” replied “I know someone who keeps ants. Let me get them.” The other kid began to get extremely excited and captured it to keep. I wanted to experience that excitement, so I got into antkeeping. Added to that, we became very good friends thanks to the hobby.
The last time I said “oh look at ant queen” around my friends they all stepped on it 😭
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@@emboidcommittee7981 aw poor queen
@@emboidcommittee7981 with all due respect, your friends are autistic
@@emboidcommittee7981 same😭
His voice is so calming
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It’s not his voice
Yaboi Snowy what? He says in the beginning my name is Jordan Dean
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Ants Canada
It began for me in my garden where a colony of ants started to move in under an old wall, instead of removing it I decided to let them be and observe their behavior.
I was fascinated by their sheer power and determination and decided to learn more about them.
I found channels like you that showed that you can keep ants and learn about their world.
I've had several colony's over the years I kept ants but none that special as the ant colony in my backyard
That big tank is a pretty realistic scaling job. Love it.
Wow, these naturalistic formicariums are beautifully made! The video is so well organized too, which is what I love about your channel. Looking forward to more :D
Dude im subscribed to you and then i see you here
Just came from your video! Planing to get an ant farm!
I have been waiting for this video for almost a year now! It's finally here ;D
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As a biology grad student, I have always loved nature and I think ants are one of the most interesting animals. Their solical interactions as well as their capability to create complex nests and tunnels are unique and amazing to witness. I started keeping my own ants around 8 months ago. Right now I have 3 small ant colonies which passed their founding stage and they are growing fast!
because the more the "queen" ant ages, the more she lays eggs
How’s that biology grad degree going? Got a good job?
@@LMBOatUwonder if he did
Wicked video :D glad to see that those strobe ants are surviving the winter!
Ant Invasion your awesome and same with ants australia
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I began keeping ants from one day stumbling upon AntsCanada's RUclips channel. From there I found your channel, and many many others! From there on I was absolutely hooked up collecting, & keeping ants. Cut to a year later, I now have over close to 30 different species. So, thank you, for helping me gain such an appreciation for these little critters!
Ever since I was a kid I have always been fascinated with Ants. About how colonies thousands strong can live as one organism each ant is a small cog in a huge machine. I love most of all how orgonised they are from digging out their colonies to taking down pray and finding food. I dont yet have my own farm as i have never had suitable living conditions, now I do i have been looking in to starting my own. :D
AntsCanada is the first channel i discovered about Ant Keeping. Which in turn led me to find this channel. Watching how amazing it can be to keep ants has really opened my eyes to the lives of insects and their world. I am currently not keeping ants because i haven't been able to find a queen. Currently looking for Camponotus or Carpenter ants before their nuptial flights come to an end.
What made me want to keep ants is the beautiful process of raising them, the exciting moment when you find your first queen is a feeling unlike any other its an amazing experience and makes you realize the little things are way bigger then they seem and how amazing nature really is also your videos made me want to keep them you showing how cool and delicate they are really made my mind think deeper and i was so fascinated in way i never thought i could be thanks.
Btw you should put a barrier no matter what to prevent raids
Chane Teo better to put on the outside then
venlo zuid NONONO- They’ll climb over and fall out of the cage, then being unable to get back in- Put it right under the rim on the inside, liquid baby powder works, it dries and the ants fall harmlessly, it’s easy to apply too. Needs constant watch at times, and often needs to be reapplied.
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Good Puss 3000. I really hate you why would you link that??
Yes because yes
I watched this just to make the massive fish tank enclosure with no Ants, they’ve always seemed so complicated to keep and I just wanted a nice little ecosystem with plants and good soil to make for my springtails, isopods, millipedes, etc. Thanks for the tutorial!
My 5yo ASD son today became very interested in ANTS after being bitten by a young "Jumping Jack" ant during his playtime at our local park.
On his return home he excitedly started talking about ants to his father that my darling hubby begged me to try and change ours sons obsession.
I instead embraced my lil mans obsession because I wanted him to have the same love for animals, insects and reptiles that my father gave me.
So after our quick google search we happened upon your RUclips channel and within hours watched several of your videos my son piped up and asked if we can make our own ant colony.
So tomorrow we will be starting our new science project for his Homeschooling class!!
Thats awesome!
I love keeping ants because when I was little my big brother inspired me to explore our world. Both of learned to love nature and ants threw your ant youtube channel and now I keep ants. Thanks For The Inspiration Ants Australia
my interest in ants all started when I was browsing youtube and came across its Canada and started watching his channel ant eventually came across yours and since then I have been a regular watcher of your videos and just this past week I decided to keep my first queen ant a black crazy ant she currently has no workers and is in a small test tube set up but she has plenty of brood. So thank you for sparking my interest in these wonderful creatures! :)
This year, I've begun researching nuptial flight schedules because I'm planning to start keeping ants. For most of my life, I've been in therapy for an anxiety disorder and a variety of crippling phobias including insectophobia and trypophobia, both of which made ants terrifying. Years ago, just talking about larval species of insect would make me panic and scratch my skin bloody. Watching RUclips videos by AntsCanada and this channel in addition to therapy have helped me warm up to ants and some other insect species slowly. There are still many insects that I am afraid of or uncomfortable with, but I have learned to appreciate the beauty of ants and I want to celebrate this major step in overcoming my phobias by raising and keeping a colony of my own in a naturalistic terrarium set up, because like you said for some people watching the ants come up to forage and occasionally seeing just glimpses of their nesting activity below can be more than enough.
Why I wanted to keep ants?
I honestly hated ants and had a phobia towards ants. But slowly watching your videos it made me curious to see how ant keeping would be. I slowly gained confidence and started to keep ants. Now I have over 8 colony's!
Thanks Jordan!
+Eren Yaeger
No, he is not. Clickbaits, and 5 minutes of content during a 20 minutes video...
@Eren Yaeger ants Canada isnt calming, hes way to dramatic. Plus he clickbait and had cliffhangers.
How does he click bait
Wow it’s not that often I watch a 30 min RUclips video all the way through. This is so good. Your channel is fantastic
When I was a lot younger (5-10) I used to watched documentaries on the natural world for fun, as I was drawn to the natural beauty, and thus started keeping some exotic pets and animals. Keeping ants has been a great experience and given me a good upfront and personal look into the natural world. Also love the vids, keep up the good work👍
I've watched this video over ten times its just so relaxing watching ants do there thing.
This channel is criminally underrated
I wanted to keep ants because of your videos! I started only recently but my first colony is expanding slowly. I wanted to watch my colony form from one queen and I wasn’t let down. I was amazed and can’t imagine me not keeping ants so I’ll keep going. Thanks for introducing me to this great hobby!
I started keeping ants because I have always had a love for insects and animals. It is so amazing being able to look after your own little ant city and see what kind of interesting things they do.
Keep up the great vids.
Ever since I was a kid I was fascinated by ants. The way the work together, their life cycle... Everything. I was unable to keep them as a kid due to my perents, but as an adult I couldn't wait to capture my first queen during nuptial flights and start a colony. There is something magical about seeing directly into the ants founding chambers and witnessing the beginning of a colony.. It's like nature is sharing a secret with you. That's why I wanted to keep ants.
I started keeping ants one year ago because I came across youtube videos of ant keeper sharing their experiences (like you) and it all reminded me my love for ants when i was a kid :)
I love the fish tank setup!
2019 anyone?
all those 2019 attention comments jesus smh
2020
I had once kept ants as a hobby. I religiously scanned Facebook groups for information aswell as care tips and help. However, due to the unpopularity of ants near and around me. Both my parents have made clear to not want any living in their house. However, this brings me to the reason I have not rejoined the hobby as of yet. I have chosen a new hobby that endulges the true beauty of nature. That is fish keeping. My once deep love of ants had transgressed into an appreciation for fish. Thanks Dean, you initial content on this channel is what inspired me to keep ants in the first place.
Bring on the wahlstad tanks huh
The first I heard about ant keeping was from RUclips. I realised their beauty and enjoyed watching them on RUclips. After learning how easy it is to keep them, I realised it fitted my requirements: low maintenance, fish tank sized and one which will not poop all over the house.so I Wan to keep ants .
me too.even my parents learn my ant.a lot of people mocking because I keeping ant in my house,a lot dont know are awsome those ant are.
Chane Teo If you like ant keeping I recomend ants Canada ^^ it's another amazing ant channel
Creepy Cookie personally I feel like aa is better. Here we get true facts and tips about ants. But ac just entertain and clickbaits, he also recommends digging which I am strongly against. Aa digs only to stop invasions.
Um what do you mean by digging?
Wait, he didnt say, that ac is better, he just said it is also good!
I always wanted to keep ants because they are so creative, smart and hard working. Most of all they are so fun to watch.
My ants have walled themselves in a test tube! I placed the tube in a small formicarium with some sand and few rocks and sneaky bastards have used the sand to build a 5mm wall in the tube. What's that all about?
goatman86 they feel to exposed with a large opening so they closed off some of the tube
They are protesting your new ant farm 😂
All jokes aside I have no idea but that's hilarious
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I am not sure, but I think they feel exposed, and thus, vulnerable to predators.
They probably feel exposed, or want to retain more humidity, they probably aren’t ready to move out yet :)
As a little kid I have always tried to keep ants. But I never had the knowledge to do so properly and they always ended up poorly. 20 years later with the help of great ant loving RUclipsrs sharing ant knowledge, has given me the ability to care for ants properly. Caught a queen this summer and am so excited to care for them and watch them grow. The unity of ants is astounding and mesmerizing.
Mean while in other universe
ant: we have humans, how to build a human farm!
Yes where is he
Lol
You just made my day
LOL 😂 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In 3rd universe:
Ants:ok we got cobras. Now how to make a cobra farm
Ants really changed my life , I used to mess about in life and school , but when I first caught my first Camponotus? Queen I was so fascinated by everything she did , from laying eggs to drinking honey. Now I focus a lot better at school and our new biology topic is social insects! I’ve watched you since your updates on the big headed ants and I want to say thanks for all the great tips on raising queens and colony’s , your video helped me raise a carpenter ant colony 100s of ants strong , Keep up the fantastic work!
After seeing one of your video's quite a while ago, I started keeping these little creatures. They now live in a self-made ytong nest wich I made after your tuturial: how to make an aac nest. And I got another small colony living in a single test tube at the moment😀😀
I have been working as an early educator at a preschool in Southern Vermont for the past three years. Having much appreciation and love for science and nature I strive to bring elements of the outdoors into the classroom. Having a natural ant farm would serve as an ongoing incredibly rich educational experience for the children. It would not only teach them how to love the earth, but also develop empathy and curiosity from a scientific approach!
Love this video! Very educational and relaxing voice! Excellent job. thnk you :D
What made me want to keep ants is your and every ant you tubers videos. Ants were so interesting and I’ve always had a connection with nature. Also, I’ve now got a Formica queen ready so that I can start Ants America. I know, it’s very original.
My 4 year old son was stung by an ant about 6 months ago, and was really upset. To try to explain to him (and my 5 year old daughter) that to an ant he was a very scary giant, and he got stung because the ant was afraid, I turned to RUclips. Since then, both the kids and I have been raptured watching and learning about ants and how they are kept as pets. I have since caught both kids following wild ants around the garden, and found myself watching ant videos long into the night. Mum is certainly not convinced about ant keeping however... Yet
From a young age I was always fascinated with the small world of insects and other critters. I would spend hours watching documentaries on nature and I would find myself glued to the screen whenever ants were showcased, their cooperation, and persistence in any obstacle thrown at them made them stand out to me. Then one day I was walking my dog and saw a particularly large ant, I went home looked into it and found out it was a queen ant and my passion was ignited again for ants, after that I spent hours upon hours reading up on ants and watching various videos on youtube. This summer I caught my first Camponotus queen and can't wait to see it expand and grow into a massive ant empire!
This so cool, I am making this, no doubt!
I wanted to keep ants because of a variety of antyoutubers. The antyoutubecommunity is very helpfull at guiding me through the antkeeping experience!
Yes thanks this will be so helpful when my colony grows! THANK YOU!
Ναι βρήκα τον 4ο Έλληνα που ξέρω ότι κράτα μυρμήγκια ως κατοικίδιο. Ξέρεις πως μπορώ να βρω springtails;
@@CT-jy7rh it’s probably too late to reply but look under rotting wood and in soil, you should find them in damp places like that
I started ant keeping just now. I have 7 queens with 0 workor, I found them about a week ago and I really love watching them laying eggs. I watched a lot videos about ant keeping and now I have my own queens it's amazing for me. I watched a lot of your videos and I learned a lot from them about ant keeping. Thank you very much.
We have been waiting for this for months
I never knew much about ants but after watching this channel I became fascinated with ants and other insects alike. This drove my now growing obsession with ants and other insects . I know properly understand and appreciate these wonderful little creatures. All this finally lead me to keep my own colonies of ants such as mymicra rubra, which is the one I have now.
what made me want to keep ants:
one day last autumn, I was walking through a nice forested path near my neighborhood, and I saw an absolutely gorgeous ant. The worker was a beautiful dark reddish-brown with a bright, amber colored gaster. I snapped a few pics, and set out to find out what species she was. I later found out that the species was Aphaenogaster Tennesseensis, which is one of the rarest kept captive species of ants due to the fact that the queens are social parasites, and raising them in captivity almost never works. I eventually wanted to learn everything I could about ants, watch every ant video on the internet, especially the ones from this channel, and I wanted to find out all of the species native to my area. That day in the forest, or rather, that one single worker alone sparked my interest in ants, and is now the reason that I have 3 colonies, one of which is a colony Aphaenogaster Tennesseensis that has begun producing alates, and 2 more founding queens. I don't think I can ever forget that one lonely worker and all she has done for me.
CheetoLord02 is it bad the she lives for like 3 months
I have been interested in ants since I found the AntsCanada channel and the AntsAustralia channel about a year ago and I've been debated for the longest time if I wanted to catch a queen and raise a colony and that dilemma has been going on for weeks now.
In the end the debating was all for not because.......... I woke up for work yesterday at 5am and went to use the washroom like a champ.
So I'm sitting there casually taking a dump minding my own business and at some point during the previous night a Tetramorium caespitum dewinged alate wandered in through the balcony asking for my help to start her colony like it was my destiny.
@@jacquesschrap8932 when i entered my bathroom after a vacation, and there was so many alites in it and flying around
I started keeping ants because of your videos in youtube. I was amazed of how organised and brilliant they are as a colony. Your 3 part ants raising tutorial got me to smoothly start my very first colony. Thank you so much for your vids. God bless your channel!!
*MAKE MORE VIDEOS ABOUT ANT SPECIES*
Coregame3 stfu
Beginner Fish n’plants :D
Beginner Fish n’plants :D
Beginner Fish n’plants :D
Beginner Fish n’plants :D
I have always had a fascination of insects, so I wasn't surprised when a ant video popped up in my RUclips recommended bar (it was one of your older videos) and ever scince I have been learning off you tube and have been growing my own colonies I know have a golden tail camponotus colony 43 workers strong. And that's how I got into ant keeping.
Thanks
Great video! :-)
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Yes
There is like a community of ant keeping youtubers that watch each others videos I love it and your guys' channels
I started keeping ants for two reasons. Firstly, because the practice of observing and caring for ants is meditative and calming. Secondly, because watching the colonies slowly grow and persist in problem-solving inspires me to be patient and persistent myself in daily life.
What made me want to keep ants was my love for overseeing them and helping take care of them. Ant-keeping in a way makes me feel like a God or a protector. These ants think as one, as a colony. They're not selfish, and are smarter and more unique than one might think. So, taking good care of these ants makes me feel like I, myself, am a part of the colony too. I also love spotting differences within different species of ants. Each specie is special in their own little way.
Ants australia and ants canada are what made me want to keep ants, I absolutely love the feeling of providing the recources to a social organism to grow into a massive army. I have to thank ants Australia because his videos really helped me during my first year of ant collecting, now i have a 150+ colony of camponotus noveboracensis, and i absolutely love to feed them and watch them.
update of sugar ants pls :)
I really like the large Bull ant set up, looks amazing and seems that it would provide many years of colonization and entertainment for the owner.
My plants dried out in the first 20 mins
mine just lasted 2 days before dying because of fungi and bacteria
I have looked at many documentaries and I always found the parts about ants the most interesting. How they comunicate, search food, work together, overcome obstacles and the huge amount of diversity. I went on a research about ants and found out about the ant keeping hobby. It wasn't long after that, that I catched my firts ant queen.
Be careful about adding that peppermint. According to many sources, its oil can repel ants and flies.
Wow. Came back to look at your channel and this was 2 years ago. I remember that I was at the airport waiting for a flight when I say your new video pop up and I watched it. It was only 2 years ago but it somehow feels nostalgic. Thanks for the memories :D
AC family like here
AC Family
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Ants australia better 🤷♂️
@@Swartgaming stop lying Ants Canada is Better
@@Swartgaming Not even close
Na ants canada is more about the views which is good for us but not as good for the ants that huge vivarium is super cool though i love it@skunksquad75688
I've always loved ants because of their power tot work together without speaking to each other. Then i found your channel and began waiting for the nuptial flights!
What if I made a channel called ants Arizona and my intro was "HEY What's up double A's?!"
Do it, there are some great ants in AZ
i started kepieng ants because i saw your videos and antscanda and now it has become a part of my life
Am I first?...I think lol
Matck Radio yep
I’m 15th
i,m the last XD
i have just recently got an ant colony because i was inspired by you its the best thing ive ever done in my life
What made me keep ants was watching AntsCanada’s videos with my friend after he introduced the channel to me. After a couple of months I found your channel and watched the video how to catch a queen ant and decided to look for my own. I loved seeing the colonies move as a whole to accomplish a single goal. It truly made me see ants in a new way.
I discovered a video about ant keeping and it really leave me in an awe. As i dig deeper about ants it gives me a feeling of excitement, curiosity and knowledge. After that day i decided not just to be an ant keeper but also a biologist.
I have always had an interest in ants right from a young age. I experimented with trying to keep ants and also build formicariums, but didn’t have much success. Then one day I did a search and found your website. It looked so easy and finally I could keep ants and study them. After watching a few of your intro videos I went straight out looking for queens. Within a couple of weeks I had two queens, they are still going after nearly a year, housed in your acrylic nests. They are awesome to watch, I’m now looking for a bull ant queen. Thanks so much for your videos and website. Keep up the awesome work.
I have been interested in keeping ants since I was around 9 years old. What hooked me to these insects is how intelligent and well coordinated they can be and watching them grow from the very start is so satisfying.
I have always loved small critters as a child but I say a video about ants a few years back and realized how amazing they are, I tried to make a ant nest by putting ants in a tub of dirt but of course that did not go well and I gave up soon after, but about a year ago I watched all of your how to raise an ant nest series and figured out what I did wrong and now all thanks to you I have a susscessful ant colony of Formica fuscas. I started raising ants because of there shear beauty and because of you to!
I always used to keep ants when I was younger, but I only collected workers because i didn’t know how to catch a queen. A few months back, I was bored on RUclips and searched up scorpion feeding videos. It was here that I came across a channel called ‘The Dark Den’. After watching this channel for a couple of hours, I came across a video about an ant colony of his. While watching it, I relived memories of ant keeping as a child, and started to keep ants.
what made me want to keep ants: RUclips. i saw people like you caring for and showing off these beautiful creatures and i wanted to do the same. you are one of the people who inspired me most to keep ants because all of your videos are showing off the joy people can get from ant keeping. now i keep ants myself and its just as great as you make it seem!
Stumbled upon one of AntsCanada's videos and soon found myself on this channel. I've always been interested in entomology, and this seemed a perfect (and low-effort) opportunity to keep some close at hand. I've now got four young colonies on my desk with me as I work every day!
I first saw this channel and have been binge watching every single video! You have a great way of talking and the tone of your voice seems like you're really excited to share the world of ants! Someday I hope I can be an antkeeper like you!
The ability to watch a mini environment grow and adapt to its surroundings and the symbiotic relationships between the creatures.
I always wanted to keep ants since i was a kid but i only started when i found youtube channels like yours with really helpful guides and everything. I watched tons of videos for a year or so and learned so much, so thanks for that. Last year i started antkeeping and now i have a camponotus colony which i raised from a single queen and 2 lasius flavus colonies.
What made me keep ants? Well you and other youtubers like you did! I always wanted a insect pet but I could never choose one... then I found your channel and after that I started learning about ants and now I am keep queen ants in a test tube set up and I’m really excited because she laid 7 eggs. Ants have inspired me to appreciate nature more and what role ants play in it. I thank you and other RUclipsrs for an experience like this.
I got to antkeeping just by simply watching ants, i watched what are they doing and it was quite interesting so i searched on youtube things like how to catch a queen and other videos related to ants. They are very hardworking creatures. And one day i found a Campanotus queen. And till now i have like 10 queens with 5-10 workers per tube. And i still got my first Campo queen. I have them 4 months but i started learning about ants past year🙂Thanks you Ant Australia for helping me with my antkeeping hobby, you have awesome channel
I'm glad that all the ant channels have started using more natural nests. I started to keep mine in big dirt setups a couple of years ago as I wanted to see how different species nested in soil. It also allowed me to give the ants more room as in have two species of ponerine ants which hunt their food individually. I even keep a termite colony in a dirt setup.
Ant youtubers like you, antscanada and ant invasion you really seem to have so much passion for such specific things that Isn’t seen at by many
What made me want to start keeping ants, was the way the ants seemingly work perfectly together. The teamwork, and time spent invested in anything they see fit doing until its accomplished. They work harmoniously together, and tiny organisms, when banded together can accomplish great feats.
well first of all you did you inspired me to keep them. i have been a fan of your channel. when was 8 years old i had this passion of keeping them.
thank you
Ive got a friend at school keeping ants and he is very joyful about it so i started to look after them when he was on holiday ( with permission obviously) and i love the way the scurry around. I havent started ant keeping yet as i dont have the money to do so, but i will start this month when my friend swaps nests for his nigers and ill buy his old nest off of him.
What made me want to keep ants was the ability to watch a whole empire grow that you take care of and make sure stay healthy and there is soooo much to learn about all sorts of different species I see almost no reason not to keep them and has been one of the most entertaining this I have done ever.
This video is sooooooo cool!!!! We found it when we were researching homage ant habitats and this is so inspirational!!! We are already making notes for our habitat!
A small ant species invaded my Florida, USA home. Needless to say they could not stay, but one colony moved into my stovetop grill. It is a large stovetop with a built in grill and I rarely use it, so I to decided observe this particular colony. To keep them somewhat contained, I put food and a water soaked paper towel out for them. I am intrigued with how well they work together! It has been a few months now and it is time they moved out. I have discovered that I may be able to get them to move into a formicarium, if I do it right. What a new and interesting hobby to learn about at age 71!
Hi !
I have started keeping ants since the last 10 days and I have been reading about them for two monthes now !
I think I have discovered this beauty of life by looking at animals during my exam week. I'm studying physics and cellular biology because I want to do Medical Imaging. However, with my studies I never had the time to look at nature. And now this has changed thanks to three RUclips channels (including yours and I thank you for that). To sum up, keeping ants is for me a way to remember how beautiful wild life is, even when I can't go outside looking at nature.
Thanks a lot.
What got me into keeping ants is videos of them living in natural setups, I found it very cool that you can make your own mini world for something living and breathing that will enjoy a non-artificial place to live. This also got me into reptile keeping.
I've always wanted an ant farm but never really knew how to start one. When I stumbled across tutorial videos on how to catch a queen and start your own farm is when I finally started my own farm.
I'm keeping my Ants because..
Since I saw Antscanada, you and Ant vision I been trying to grow my own colony with two queens and seven eggs.
These canponotes spp. species has giving me a lot of interest of all Insekts and animals.
And I've been watching Ant RUclipsrs for years.
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**Ant Love Forever**
The thing that made me want to keep ants was videos on RUclips like yours, also, I have been interested in insects from a young age, as I wondered how they interacted with each other. I know have two queens that I have in a test tube set-up. They are my first, I hope that they do well!
What made me want to keep ants was just the beauty of them and just the simple things they do, by me watching them do these things it just makes me feel closer to them. Now at school my friends call me ant boy because of how much I know, but ever since I was a kid I would watch these creatures in my backyard for ages.
I just find it so interesting watching a colony growing up. It's like a human community, like they think about every step. They have a place where they put their garbage, a place where the queen breeds, a place where they put their eggs and so on. They always have a plan. That's what made me keeping ants. Watching them gives me a feeling of order in this messy world.
I’m so excited about starting my own bull ant colony. Thank you for all the teaching and love. I’m at the Gold Coast and have an abundance of ants around. I used to get laughed at for saving ants from the pool, now I have realised the amazing fun they can be for someone who works a lot and needs a fun low maintenance pet. In saying that I have 2 dogs a cat and a snake. 😁
I am not currently keeping many ants as I have not been able to find many queens, but I'd love to be able to keep more when I have more access to time. Like you, I have had a massive interest in the natural world since I was young, but as I got older my love for nature, sadly, began to diminish. A couple of years ago I was just browsing youtube and I saw one of Mikey Bustos' videos with an extremely clickbait title in my suggested videos (Something like "MY FIRE ANTS ESCAPED EVERYWHERE"). I decided to click on it thinking it was childish of me but after I watched the video I was hooked. I then went and binge-watched all of his videos, and found my way to your channel (I love Mikey, but I personally prefer your content, maybe because you are closer to home, in Australia, and your titles are less clickbait-y). Your videos renewed my love of the natural world and truly showed me how beautiful ants (and other bugs) can be. Your videos started what would eventually snowball into inspiring me to begin studying biology at college.
I've always liked keeping animals. When i was little i tried to keep bees...but that didn't work out tho, so i tried keeping ants in a ''tic tac'' container and i rly enjoyed watching them dig tunnels. Later on i discovered a few ant chanels like this one and that just pushed me to start ant keeping for real.
I got into ant keeping is when I woke up and I saw a you alate on my desk, I was going to throw it out of the window but then I wanted to explore and keep here! So I went on RUclips and found your amazing channel which now the queen is thriving in my setup a Pheidole colony to be specific! Amazing vid loved the info!