Greetings AC Family & fellow ant lovers everywhere! This is hands down one of my favourite episodes this year, and I was completely mind blown at so many points creating this video. Hope you like it and learned as much as I did, and if you did hope you could remember to hit LIKE, leave me a COMMENT, SHARE the video, and SUBSCRIBE (hit the BELL & Select ALL for Notifications Squad) to the channel to join our ever-growing AC Family! Love you, guys! 🙏🌿🐜 Ant love forever! So question: What are your thoughts on what I asked at the end? Any ideas? Let me know! It's brainstorming time!
For marauder ants, a hybrid nest setup would be more suitable than an ant tower. A hybrid nest provides a combination of a nest and an outworld, which can be beneficial for marauder ants as they are a highly active and aggressive species. The outworld component of the hybrid nest allows for a larger foraging area for the ants to explore, while the nest component provides a secure area for the ants to retreat to and care for their brood. Additionally, marauder ants are a larger species, so they would benefit from a larger space to move around in, which a hybrid nest can provide. It is important to ensure that the hybrid nest setup has enough space for the ants to move around comfortably and that it is appropriately ventilated to prevent any issues with humidity. Overall, a hybrid nest setup would be the better choice for your marauder ants.
You should try giving one of your ant colonies a piece of chicken breast or chicken thigh meat. I’m sure they’ll love it, and you won’t need to clean up any bones!
ikr once in my house mice broke in and we caught their whole family in mouse traps, i remember seeing the mice in the traps with their eyes wide open, and i saw them scuffle around in the woods occasionally
You are a silly little child that thinks nature is a Disney movie. Why do you begrudge the animals they're right to eat just like any other animal has a right to eat?
@@RJH-vp1kkwhy? That’s what they’re made for. There’s millions of mice born every year. What’s 1 mice dead going to do? Actually it helps for mice to die for the whole world. They have a massive overpopulation problem.
@@RJH-vp1kkso what? It's just a mouse. Even insects need to be fed if their pets. The world isn't going to suffer because a baby mouse got fed to a bunch of ants
@@fireboltthunder2360in nature there's no morality but when it's some random dudes pet ant colony in his bedroom, doing this stuff is weird and almost depraved
I used to have a sort of phobia towards ants, but I’ve been watching you for years now. These days I feel it’s let me feel more comfortable about ants and even look forward for your next video to drop. I’ve learnt so much about the ant world and can’t wait to learn more!
Well, Leviathans are typically associated with the sea. I think it would be cool to do a sea cave style terarium. Like, full on coral reef without the water kind of deal. Fake rocks could house the digging medium against the back wall of a taller glass terarium, so they can build up against it and a sheet of black paper or a removable cover of some kind so you can peek into the nest chambers. Make the facade a full panel so it will stay put instead of individually securing a cave network.
When i was a kid, i had a couple of maple trees in my backyard. There was a band patch at the base of one of the trees where I noticed a steady stream of ants coming and going. I put a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie and the middle of the clearing and watched over the first of several hours as they dismantled and carried it away ! Since then, I've been fascinated !
Or perhaps put in a bigger tower, with many "floors" for them to move into? The Queen and brood could remain in the deepest, most secure chambers of the test tube, but the bulk of the colony could be housed above in the castle~
@AntsCanada if it makes you feel even happier, I also am a Canadian and live about 30 minutes from the places you used to collect queens during their neptual flights 😅
They were so determined to lift the entire mouse, maybe one day in the future when there are more of them they will be able to succeed in lifting larger objects to take home.
I really like that current set up with the test tube attached to the tank. You could go further with this idea and instead of a test tube have a bigger nesting container. Almost like an aquarium refugium but with ants. I also like the castle entrance idea. Its really cool seeing them go in and out of their fortress like that.
I do really respect him caring for ants even if he moved out from his apartment, it makes me wanting to keep ants again. My starting fire ant colony came to an end when a pharaoh ant army stormed my fire ant queen's nest..
I have 3 ant discoveries in my school 1.that black crazy ants and fire ants lived in the garden 2. That the fire ants eat the dead snail that has 20+ eggs in front of the garden. I was disgusted 3. That trap jaw anay lived in the garden too, i was amazed i seen 5 workers Because of you I loved ants
I used to hate ants and think their stupid but after watching his videos (ANTSCANADA!!!) I also loved ants i find them amazing but im an introvert i might explore more to see some ants doing amazing stuff!
ngl, I think this was really cool. Absolutely intriguing, and I could hear the passion in your voice doing this video and you sound so happy. Great content, man.
I just started watching your videos a week ago with my partner and both you and your ant family have quickly become our favourite thing to watch! You have taken over our lives in the best way, we're currently sat in the garden feeding our wild ants honey and watching their gastors expand and do trophylaxis with each other (both ant terms we learned from your show!) We love antopia and the mini forest, mourned the fire nation, you've encouraged us to look deeper into the natural world as a way to heal and I can't thank you enough. ❤
I love the test tube hanging off the bottom! Keep the underhang idea, as it's amazing, and awesome to be able to see inside. Would it be possible to connect the tower setup of the vampire ants, the red wrapped tower, onto the bottom and use one of those? Maybe a newer version that's twice the size in height! That way we can see the inside from outside the wrap, and the inside where it's hollow, allowing for more introspection on the ants operation of life.
Maybe the next setup should be very similar. It would be a long tank, but to encourage the trails you have been wanting even more, there shoud be long branches that would be conveinent for travel across the tank.
The colony is looking beautiful. Regarding the new setup, may i suggest something that would allow some parts to be dynamic. I dont really know how that would look like, but maybe?
Its interesting to see that the workers bow to the queen. Many species of ants are actually reversed in importance. Queens are essentially held captive by the colony, meant for one job only. Little things like this, is why i love this channel
Got to say, the amount of times antscanada has said "that opened my eyes" when talking about new things on the channel I'm surprised he still has enough eye left to open
I stumbled onto this channel by accident when looking at vivarium inspiration for my giant african land snails but omg have I ben binging it! Your tanks are all so fantastic and your animals are so happy and well looked after. The quality of the footage is impeccable and your narration really adds a whole lot, really amazing stuff I can't wait to see more!
@get.sassyxd I'm guessing you live in the US? I live in the UK so they're legal to keep here (but it is illegal to release them or the eggs into the wild). Such a shame you can't have them as they're absolutely treasures! Had mine about 5 months now and they're growing big fast
@iluvKH4eva yes, I'm in the US. Unfortunately, others have ruined the whole "only keep them as pets and don't let them loose" thing here. especially in Florida, too many people let their snakes and other reptiles go into the wild, so now they are overpopulated with a bunch of invasive reptiles. I'm sure I could find someone illegally selling them, but my kids would tell everyone I had it 🤣 we actually had a pair of African Land snails get out (I think that was also I'm Florida, I don't live there) and they literally shut the whole city down and sprayed a pesticide of some sort to kill them. The news articles about it were hilarious but off the charts. They made it sound like aliens taking over. I can't imagine spraying a pesticide like that was good for the ecosystem. Enjoy your babies!
Cause some peoples mindset is more sensitive causing them to feel emotions towards something when there life hasn’t even begun.. tbh they have every right to feel bad for the baby mouse like some people said the mouse had a entire life ahead of him eating cheese but got sacrificed for ants 🐜…
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 that’s not the fact if it’s dead or not or what it’s been thru 😭that’s not the point it’s the emotions some one has build up towards something that never even started to begin with
For a long time I've been afraid of all insects (even butterflies) until I found your channel. Something about these tiny yet mighty girlies is so charming, especially when they look at the camera and tilt their antennae like a confused puppy. To this day, ants (and fleas) are the only insects I'm not afraid of. Their strategic *ant*ics are just so adorable and entertaining to watch!
Right. I mean it's not like he went out and killed it himself. It's sad but inevitable. Clearly they missed The Lion King's preaching of Circle of Life. For all we know, that mouse could have simply been the runt and just failed to thrive. My first dog was the runt and wasn't expected to live beyond a week or so (He did survive for 13 years).
If we’re excusing this artificial set up designed to get money through ads on RUclips on the basis of it being a “natural process”, he should also be releasing animals that predate ants into his setups, so they can destroy the colony, as happens in nature.
@@ujlt7198 it's better than feeding live rodents to reptiles which risks both being injured and suffering. Rodents are also needed for injured birds of prey being nursed back to health. Humane culling is as kind as we can be to provide a food source to another species.
@A Suicune On The OBX It's pretty poor practice that they'd do they did that with the rabbits and it sounds like it was for entertainment value more than anything. Pythons and boas typically don't snap necks - they constrict by smothering their prey. Every time the prey item exhales the python constricts its coils and the prey is unable to inhale. Much kinder to feed something pre-thawed. Stunned is a last alternative in my opinion, rodents can come around and they are smart. They can inflict a lot of damage on a reptile. It's been mentioned on this channel before that no matter how hard we try we'll never fully replicate the conditions of nature. In nature a prey animal that isn't immediately caught and consumed will escape or fight for survival. In an enclosure they cannot escape and will often fight. I hate when people try to defend live feeding as natural because it absolutely isn't. A captive snake isn't going to feed just because you want it to. I gagged watching this video because I'm very familiar with the smell of uneaten rodent 🤢 it's a particular stink. Worse is a regurgitated rodent.
I know this is about the Marauders and feeding them...but I must say like every other video, I would love to find and start a colony of those amazing blue ants you found...
I think Majors are so import so much so that they have 3 roles of their colony 😮 -Being a crawling tank of the colony -Being the specialized food/Enemy grinder/chopper of the colony -Being sometimes a living storage That's incredible dude!
They are very bad at fight because of being slow in movements. Fast ants like black crazy, yellow crazy, white footed, etc can easily defeat one. Their main work is to cut through tough food.
For anyone who thinks this is either "cruel" or "animal abuse" The rat was already dead. And he wasn't even the one that killed it. It's also natrual for ants to eat dead things. Y'all need to chill out.
@@PinkLightingBoltsDrama stfu "fucked up" it is DEAD, what part of that don't you understand?? You eat dead meat too from animals so why are you complaining
I remember this one episode i saw in your channel where theres a multiple passage and one of them is full of cockroaches... How about doing the same thing with this colony that way we can also see how they hunt and i think its awesome to watch them finding and hunting food
Ahhh a self-feeding system! I will see what I can come up with. Seeing how much this colony eats at this size makes me scared for when they're a massive colony. I will need to think of feeding meats, I think!
This was fascinating, and really informative regarding the jobs of various ants in the colony. I hope whatever new home you design for them will still maintain a trail to the food source, as watching them is very interesting. Maybe a two level setup that keeps the alley while expanding their lower level to give them room. Would love an update on the termites.🖤🇨🇦
How’s it going Mikey? Great video!! I always look forward to Saturday for the new video. As usual you never disappoint! Years ago I had an Argentinian horned frog, a.k.a. Pac-Man frog. It doesn’t take long for them to grow, starting off with crickets and then pinkies and eventually full grown mice. I’m sure you know I’m the wild Tory will often eat small rodents, pretty much anything they can fit in their mouths. I had to move and had to get rid of him, when I did he was easily the size of a dinner plate, probably 8-10 inches in diameter. They aren’t aggressive at all, just smart ambush predators, using their natures camouflage to burrow down in moss with just their eyes showing. They sit extremely still until their prey walks right in front of them, then they lunge forward gulping their prey whole. Maybe sometime you could do a video on feeding your frog. I always found them to be really beautiful frogs. When I was younger I had many different aquariums and pets, this was years before RUclips and social media. I started have an aquarium, but like you I’ve recently gotten property and am working on rebuilding. So I’ve had to downsize. Once my new house is finished I’ll most likely get started again. Your channel is always a joy to watch and an inspiration!! I can’t wait to start an ant colony! It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time now! I live in upstate NY so I’ll have to find a good colony that’s native to my area. Thanks again for the great video. Take care Mikey!
Well, we need a kingdom befitting the name. Some kind of underwater land fusion would be rad, like the lost city of Atlantis. Pillars, caves, mist, fog, and the opportunity to introduce a sea serpent perhaps?
hi antscanada! i love your videos. you sound like an excited pokemon professor and the enthusiasm is honestly catching. it genuinely warms my heart lol. i am curious to see what other ways they could be learned about in ways like this; noninvasive and nonharmful of course. they're an incredible species.
Greetings AC Family & fellow ant lovers everywhere! This is hands down one of my favourite episodes this year, and I was completely mind blown at so many points creating this video.
Hope you like it and learned as much as I did, and if you did hope you could remember to hit LIKE, leave me a COMMENT, SHARE the video, and SUBSCRIBE (hit the BELL & Select ALL for Notifications Squad) to the channel to join our ever-growing AC Family! Love you, guys! 🙏🌿🐜 Ant love forever!
So question: What are your thoughts on what I asked at the end? Any ideas? Let me know! It's brainstorming time!
Ant love forever
#Antloveforever
For marauder ants, a hybrid nest setup would be more suitable than an ant tower.
A hybrid nest provides a combination of a nest and an outworld, which can be beneficial for marauder ants as they are a highly active and aggressive species. The outworld component of the hybrid nest allows for a larger foraging area for the ants to explore, while the nest component provides a secure area for the ants to retreat to and care for their brood.
Additionally, marauder ants are a larger species, so they would benefit from a larger space to move around in, which a hybrid nest can provide. It is important to ensure that the hybrid nest setup has enough space for the ants to move around comfortably and that it is appropriately ventilated to prevent any issues with humidity.
Overall, a hybrid nest setup would be the better choice for your marauder ants.
You should try giving one of your ant colonies a piece of chicken breast or chicken thigh meat. I’m sure they’ll love it, and you won’t need to clean up any bones!
Love these ants video
You should do a video on the history of ever single ant colony you've owned and say what happened to them and if you still own them
Oooh like an ant timeline!!!
That should be for an anniversary special!
pleeeeeaaaasssseeee yes
There actually is an AC Family member who did a complete AC Lore video up until 2020. It was insane! So many storylines and ant colonies!
yes
the way mice grow from this to the complete mouse apocalypse in the uk is honestly terrifying
You have not seen rats in Nigeria
ikr once in my house mice broke in and we caught their whole family in mouse traps, i remember seeing the mice in the traps with their eyes wide open, and i saw them scuffle around in the woods occasionally
@@stanlee9249
Meanwhile Nigerians: mmmm that mouse was delicious.
Yep
Its not the mice's fault they were well adapted to the environment we created for ourselves
I love how every video is just “look at how awesome and cool these lil critters are” and I am in love with it
😊
Suwiddfyikik😲😲😲😲😜😊😊
Bro, ants have better Teamwork than we people.
Fr lol
You saying we people make me feel like your a alien or something 😂
Real facts
The Axis in WW1, WW2 is an example
Obviously, they are one of the most organized animal in the world, if not, the most organized animal on world
POV: you know damn well this will gross you out but your intrigued so you watch it anyway💀
Thanks for watching
You are a silly little child that thinks nature is a Disney movie. Why do you begrudge the animals they're right to eat just like any other animal has a right to eat?
@@aquariandawn4750I think you’re commenting on the wrong comment because all they said is that it might gross people out but it’s interesting
I’m a snake owner I’ve seen it all 💀
@Cannibleteacher, the ants are cute. u should buy some carpenter ants (I'm not an antkeeper, but I recommend buying some to see what they will do)
I think it’s hilarious seeing ants think that they’re helping carry the food back when they’re actually being carried with the food lol
i like to think they're getting yelled at the whole way for making it heavier 💀
The baby mouse was really cute. Looked like it was sleeping peacefully. I hope it didn't suffer when it died.
@@RJH-vp1kkwhy? That’s what they’re made for. There’s millions of mice born every year. What’s 1 mice dead going to do? Actually it helps for mice to die for the whole world. They have a massive overpopulation problem.
@@RJH-vp1kkso what? It's just a mouse. Even insects need to be fed if their pets. The world isn't going to suffer because a baby mouse got fed to a bunch of ants
@@fireboltthunder2360in nature there's no morality but when it's some random dudes pet ant colony in his bedroom, doing this stuff is weird and almost depraved
In the description they said it was already dead before he put in in the tank so don't worry.
Okay?? Those are anta!! Get a life!!! A mouse actually are cute and do stuff too make people laugh and stuff!
I used to have a sort of phobia towards ants, but I’ve been watching you for years now. These days I feel it’s let me feel more comfortable about ants and even look forward for your next video to drop. I’ve learnt so much about the ant world and can’t wait to learn more!
And now i have a baby mice phobia.
@@InbproductionsYT_1947 mine too
Same! Ants was the animal that I scared the most. But I love them now!
Awesome! Thank you for giving ants a chance. Ant love forever!
@@AntsCanada did you forget i said i dont like baby mice?
Well, Leviathans are typically associated with the sea. I think it would be cool to do a sea cave style terarium. Like, full on coral reef without the water kind of deal. Fake rocks could house the digging medium against the back wall of a taller glass terarium, so they can build up against it and a sheet of black paper or a removable cover of some kind so you can peek into the nest chambers. Make the facade a full panel so it will stay put instead of individually securing a cave network.
Love this idea! I'll see what I can come up with! Thank you! Ant love forever!
Tf I don't live in seaaaaaaa!
@@AntsCanada 🐜❤♾ Ant Love Forever!
Agree
That sounds great !! But I think adding some type of water system in there would look awesome !! Doesn't have to be big but some water at least . 😊
8:20 they were like "GUYS THE ANT LORD HAS BROUGHT US FOOD ONCE AGAIN"
When i was a kid, i had a couple of maple trees in my backyard. There was a band patch at the base of one of the trees where I noticed a steady stream of ants coming and going. I put a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie and the middle of the clearing and watched over the first of several hours as they dismantled and carried it away ! Since then, I've been fascinated !
An entire peanut butter chocolate chip cookie 😂😂😂😂😂
@@SophieDeane-b3c lol, true story !! It was awesome !
@@SophieDeane-b3ca cookie is nothing, South American fire ants take out entire pigs.
Their current setup with the tower is too awesome to change! You should keep it as it is but replace the test tube with a tunnel to a bigger home.
I like this idea, and the new home could be modular as well to easily add new sections as the colony grows ever bigger!
like a bigger tower💯💯
𝔸𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕕
Or perhaps put in a bigger tower, with many "floors" for them to move into? The Queen and brood could remain in the deepest, most secure chambers of the test tube, but the bulk of the colony could be housed above in the castle~
"I feed my ants a baby mouse"
Flashback to the last time an ant colony of his had a mouse to eat...the fur was EVERYWHERE
You're definitely OG AC Family! Yes, reminded me of that, too. Ant love forever!
@AntsCanada if it makes you feel even happier, I also am a Canadian and live about 30 minutes from the places you used to collect queens during their neptual flights 😅
Can I pay respect for the baby mouse
Omg. I remember this 🤣 crazy video!
Guys before you get mad or sad, the mouse was already dead.
Yo
@@inspiringclips5425 ????
How tho
Sometimes mice dont live when theyre born, just like humans@TheWildlifeChannelz
Why did you give him? He was so cute.😮😢😢😢😭😭
Majors are always bigger, but these ones are insane. They’re like 3000% larger.
They were so determined to lift the entire mouse, maybe one day in the future when there are more of them they will be able to succeed in lifting larger objects to take home.
😐uh...
In 2031:MY CAR
@@ralphgaming3445 😭😭🙏
rest in peace the baby mouse. its story hadn't even started😟😟😟
Not quite, it's a big part of the ants story now. But I get what you mean.
ya so sad😢
Skill issue
Skill issue 🔥
I mean, I think it already died somehow
8:20 help I don’t like ants but the fact they are running so cutely! and the music makes it even better💀💀😭
I really like that current set up with the test tube attached to the tank. You could go further with this idea and instead of a test tube have a bigger nesting container. Almost like an aquarium refugium but with ants. I also like the castle entrance idea. Its really cool seeing them go in and out of their fortress like that.
100% agree! I love the current setup, just needs a bigger below ground area. All I know is whatever he ends up doing I'll enjoy watching.
I will be here every possible Saturday (and watch later if I must). I have been following this channel since 2017.
Noted! Thank you for watching and for the feedback. Ant love forever!
@@AntsCanada i rly like this one
yess that's what i was thinking
I do really respect him caring for ants even if he moved out from his apartment, it makes me wanting to keep ants again. My starting fire ant colony came to an end when a pharaoh ant army stormed my fire ant queen's nest..
Not those assholes again
oof
Oof indeed
Bro you don't care about the baby mouse
@@srilisawatikiay181 it was dead already
I have 3 ant discoveries in my school
1.that black crazy ants and fire ants lived in the garden
2. That the fire ants eat the dead snail that has 20+ eggs in front of the garden. I was disgusted
3. That trap jaw anay lived in the garden too, i was amazed i seen 5 workers
Because of you I loved ants
Keep discovering. Keep exploring.
Don’t let anyone stop you.
🐜 ❤♾️
@@RealBelisariusCawl thanks
I used to hate ants and think their stupid but after watching his videos (ANTSCANADA!!!) I also loved ants i find them amazing but im an introvert i might explore more to see some ants doing amazing stuff!
@@FishyDagon ikr
Why were the black ones the crazy ones?
When I was -8 years old, I put an empty bag on an ant colony at the park! After 2 seconds they carried it away, after then I have been fascinated.
How are the termites doing
eating wood
@@DatAzureBoihahahahahahaha
@Chezcaik hahahahahahhaha
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🫸🫷
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🫸🫷
@CHIZCAIKA
*"Thank you mouse for your sacrifice."*
-🐜
💀💀
ngl, I think this was really cool. Absolutely intriguing, and I could hear the passion in your voice doing this video and you sound so happy. Great content, man.
Thanks for watching
Bro was spawn killed
BRO THIS IS UNDERRATED 💀💀
Crazy😂
hell naw💀💀💀😂
Fr
☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
That poor mouse. His life taken too short he only was alive for 2 seconds 😢
I really like the ones carrying food home......while standing on it
Other ants be like "wow, that's helpful "
They're protecting their prize on the way home! 🤣 Thanks for watching! Ant love forever! ❤️🐜
Ah yes. Nothing like buying a dead baby to feed to your pets.
Remy used to eat well. Now Remy is being eaten well.
Crazy bro
Imagine being drunk and passing out on an ants nest, waking up with no ears.😮 new fear unlocked.
I just started watching your videos a week ago with my partner and both you and your ant family have quickly become our favourite thing to watch! You have taken over our lives in the best way, we're currently sat in the garden feeding our wild ants honey and watching their gastors expand and do trophylaxis with each other (both ant terms we learned from your show!)
We love antopia and the mini forest, mourned the fire nation, you've encouraged us to look deeper into the natural world as a way to heal and I can't thank you enough. ❤
I love the test tube hanging off the bottom! Keep the underhang idea, as it's amazing, and awesome to be able to see inside. Would it be possible to connect the tower setup of the vampire ants, the red wrapped tower, onto the bottom and use one of those? Maybe a newer version that's twice the size in height! That way we can see the inside from outside the wrap, and the inside where it's hollow, allowing for more introspection on the ants operation of life.
Maybe the next setup should be very similar. It would be a long tank, but to encourage the trails you have been wanting even more, there shoud be long branches that would be conveinent for travel across the tank.
Mickey mouse watching this:💀💀💀💀
Chuck E. Cheese watching this too:😭😭😭🙏🏻💀
❤️🔥
Mickey Mouse be like oh wait no no that’s my own kind
Mickey mouse: noooooooo😭😭😭
Lol
The colony is looking beautiful. Regarding the new setup, may i suggest something that would allow some parts to be dynamic. I dont really know how that would look like, but maybe?
The ants carring food home looks likewhen a 5 year old finds a quarter and tells their mom
This guy is such a good Narrator and RUclipsr, he should have a Documentary Channel, nice vid Antscanada!
How can i start doing this for myself? ive always wanted to own an ant colony watching they're every move
I can imagine one of the ants yelling out "PIVOT"
Its interesting to see that the workers bow to the queen.
Many species of ants are actually reversed in importance. Queens are essentially held captive by the colony, meant for one job only.
Little things like this, is why i love this channel
I agree, ants carrying food home is very relaxing and does help pass time. Great Video!
me:is that baby mouse dead?
Antscanada: ........
me:is it dead!?
Antscanada:yes it's dead
me: oh I thought it was alive
I love being able to see in the nest. Hope you can figure out how to make a similar set up but larger in the future
Got to say, the amount of times antscanada has said "that opened my eyes" when talking about new things on the channel I'm surprised he still has enough eye left to open
I stumbled onto this channel by accident when looking at vivarium inspiration for my giant african land snails but omg have I ben binging it! Your tanks are all so fantastic and your animals are so happy and well looked after. The quality of the footage is impeccable and your narration really adds a whole lot, really amazing stuff I can't wait to see more!
I want an African Land Snail so badly! They are beautiful 😍 I'm sad they are illegal, where I live. Give yours love for me, please!
@get.sassyxd I'm guessing you live in the US? I live in the UK so they're legal to keep here (but it is illegal to release them or the eggs into the wild). Such a shame you can't have them as they're absolutely treasures! Had mine about 5 months now and they're growing big fast
@iluvKH4eva yes, I'm in the US. Unfortunately, others have ruined the whole "only keep them as pets and don't let them loose" thing here. especially in Florida, too many people let their snakes and other reptiles go into the wild, so now they are overpopulated with a bunch of invasive reptiles. I'm sure I could find someone illegally selling them, but my kids would tell everyone I had it 🤣 we actually had a pair of African Land snails get out (I think that was also I'm Florida, I don't live there) and they literally shut the whole city down and sprayed a pesticide of some sort to kill them. The news articles about it were hilarious but off the charts. They made it sound like aliens taking over. I can't imagine spraying a pesticide like that was good for the ecosystem. Enjoy your babies!
Oh, i get why there arent any dots inbetween the "R.I.P." because them ants litterally ripped that guy to shreds 😂
How are the termites doing? Can you please give a update on them?
' Which called mucle puller sup major ( pulls out frame of queen ) ' that is so funny when you show us the queen being mucle puller now 😂
He was just feeding his ants, and some people reacted as if he had committed genocide
Cause some peoples mindset is more sensitive causing them to feel emotions towards something when there life hasn’t even begun.. tbh they have every right to feel bad for the baby mouse like some people said the mouse had a entire life ahead of him eating cheese but got sacrificed for ants 🐜…
@@unknownastroid_2240 The mouse was dead anyway, it was not going to frolic eating cheese. Also they dont eat cheese fyi
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 that’s not the fact if it’s dead or not or what it’s been thru 😭that’s not the point it’s the emotions some one has build up towards something that never even started to begin with
@@unknownastroid_2240part of life so hopefully they find acceptance
@@unknownastroid_2240they actually like peanut butter more than cheese
you should make the ant colony go to war with a fire ant colony
Ooo
Its soo cool to see the submajors helping the worker ants😀
For a long time I've been afraid of all insects (even butterflies) until I found your channel. Something about these tiny yet mighty girlies is so charming, especially when they look at the camera and tilt their antennae like a confused puppy. To this day, ants (and fleas) are the only insects I'm not afraid of. Their strategic *ant*ics are just so adorable and entertaining to watch!
Some people are gonna be mad at him for this, but it’s part of natural processes. Things die, things get eaten, things eat the ants, and so on.
Right. I mean it's not like he went out and killed it himself. It's sad but inevitable. Clearly they missed The Lion King's preaching of Circle of Life. For all we know, that mouse could have simply been the runt and just failed to thrive. My first dog was the runt and wasn't expected to live beyond a week or so (He did survive for 13 years).
If we’re excusing this artificial set up designed to get money through ads on RUclips on the basis of it being a “natural process”, he should also be releasing animals that predate ants into his setups, so they can destroy the colony, as happens in nature.
is it natural to farm and freeze baby mice?
@@ujlt7198 it's better than feeding live rodents to reptiles which risks both being injured and suffering. Rodents are also needed for injured birds of prey being nursed back to health.
Humane culling is as kind as we can be to provide a food source to another species.
@A Suicune On The OBX It's pretty poor practice that they'd do they did that with the rabbits and it sounds like it was for entertainment value more than anything. Pythons and boas typically don't snap necks - they constrict by smothering their prey. Every time the prey item exhales the python constricts its coils and the prey is unable to inhale.
Much kinder to feed something pre-thawed. Stunned is a last alternative in my opinion, rodents can come around and they are smart. They can inflict a lot of damage on a reptile.
It's been mentioned on this channel before that no matter how hard we try we'll never fully replicate the conditions of nature. In nature a prey animal that isn't immediately caught and consumed will escape or fight for survival. In an enclosure they cannot escape and will often fight. I hate when people try to defend live feeding as natural because it absolutely isn't. A captive snake isn't going to feed just because you want it to.
I gagged watching this video because I'm very familiar with the smell of uneaten rodent 🤢 it's a particular stink.
Worse is a regurgitated rodent.
Very interesting video. This is the first video i have seen of yours. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, will do!
Guys 6:42 its alright the mouse was already dead
Fr bro why are People orerreacting
the way he narrates this to us make us beleiv that this is a real kingdom thanku ant canada
Imagine being one of the majors born at the bottom of the tube. The adventure to get out would take like half of its life span😂
The mouse didn’t had a long life but give your ants like a different food like a coworker
So? It wouldnt have a long life anyways
These ants are smart. And it was very cool to see ants being excited to carry the entire thing.
Had you seen my pet baby mouse wait its that my mouse
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Ngl i feel bad for the mouse but its life 😔
I know this is about the Marauders and feeding them...but I must say like every other video, I would love to find and start a colony of those amazing blue ants you found...
I'm dying to find a colony of them, too! Or at least find a queen! I'm on it!
@AntsCanada we love you Mikey!!! Allowing and making our dreams come true thru your passion and dedication!!!
Don't get on that, honeypot ants are one of the coolest species ever you should get a colony of them.
@LegoWorf yes, honeypot ants are cool...but those blue velvet like ants were so pretty and majestic...
didnt ants canada talk to the tree in that episode or something?
I love videos about ants eating stuff this was so awesome!
It's kind of cute seeing how excited the ants get after finding their huge new meal
Day 1 of me watching you: Eww so many ants!
Me now: IM IN LOVE WITH THEM
Edit: so proud of the ants! They have all grown up!! ❤❤
Imagine you’re born and your job is to be the refrigerator.
Not a bad gig, if you think about it. No need to work, just grt fed until you're huge and regurgitate as needed.
When I see videos like these I realize how extremely intelligent and fascinating ants can be
This is absolutly terrifying and sad but who said all animals are good but still my man(or she) was a baby yo
It's dead... 😅
I think Majors are so import so much so that they have 3 roles of their colony 😮
-Being a crawling tank of the colony
-Being the specialized food/Enemy grinder/chopper of the colony
-Being sometimes a living storage
That's incredible dude!
i'd say they help with organisation too considering how they lead the charge with that gravel and even moving ants sometimes.
@@poisen06 yeah, 😆 excavating some ants as well
They are very bad at fight because of being slow in movements. Fast ants like black crazy, yellow crazy, white footed, etc can easily defeat one. Their main work is to cut through tough food.
majors are like APCs
8:18 I can imagine the ants
Ant 1: “HELL YEAH WE EATING GOOD TONIGHT BOYS”
Ant 2: “LESSS GOOOO”
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The background music that was playing reminds me of a game I play on roblox called ant colony
Here’s a joke why do ants never get sick?
Because they have little antibodies
Jerry has been really quite since this dropped 🗣🗣🔥🔥
Tom was shocked since jerry dropped ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
21:22 how about a plastic box in which the ant colony will expand into? It’s big enough to make more space for your leviathan pet ant colony.
New home suggestion:
12" x 18" x 1.5" (L x H xW)
Material : transparent acrylic sheet/ glass
FINALLY A FEEDING VIDEO! Don’t get me wrong your other counted is great but Feeding videos seem to make me feel better.
WHY IT'S TOO CUTE😭😭
6:40
It’s absolutely mind blowing how intelligent they are.
I never thought, watching this would be this interesting. The way you narrated in the entire video makes it more beautiful. You gained a subscriber 🙌.
8:22 What the teacher's expect us to do, during a fire drill
For anyone who thinks this is either "cruel" or "animal abuse"
The rat was already dead. And he wasn't even the one that killed it. It's also natrual for ants to eat dead things. Y'all need to chill out.
Ik but it’s fucked up
@@PinkLightingBoltsDrama stfu "fucked up" it is DEAD, what part of that don't you understand?? You eat dead meat too from animals so why are you complaining
@@PinkLightingBoltsDrama okay dont see it then this is what happens in the forest too and worst
Amazing video I’m glad that ants Canada is still going good and well
The baby mouse was so cute….“What do you wanna name your new pets lil jimmy”
You should record the queen ant laying eggs
Bro that is disgusting
It's a process of life @@kainoa1244
Guy didnt even get a chance to live
I hate mouses
6:14 he didn’t kill it tho
Poor mouse 😭🐭.
agree
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eep eep🐁
3:35 “and saying hello to our camera” NAH BRO
I remember this one episode i saw in your channel where theres a multiple passage and one of them is full of cockroaches... How about doing the same thing with this colony that way we can also see how they hunt and i think its awesome to watch them finding and hunting food
Ahhh a self-feeding system! I will see what I can come up with. Seeing how much this colony eats at this size makes me scared for when they're a massive colony. I will need to think of feeding meats, I think!
@@AntsCanadaAntsCanada, could you help me? I have a small weaver ant colony, what sized terarrium do I need for them?
This was fascinating, and really informative regarding the jobs of various ants in the colony. I hope whatever new home you design for them will still maintain a trail to the food source, as watching them is very interesting. Maybe a two level setup that keeps the alley while expanding their lower level to give them room.
Would love an update on the termites.🖤🇨🇦
Guys i found a mouse help me L I F T to take it to the Q U E E N
ohhh yeah that facebook group
LOL
According to all known laws of aviation there is no way a bee should be able to fly
Got dat ass
5:33 nest Lay-out before
16:10 and after day 1
19:46 after the ants finished
How’s it going Mikey? Great video!! I always look forward to Saturday for the new video. As usual you never disappoint! Years ago I had an Argentinian horned frog, a.k.a. Pac-Man frog. It doesn’t take long for them to grow, starting off with crickets and then pinkies and eventually full grown mice. I’m sure you know I’m the wild Tory will often eat small rodents, pretty much anything they can fit in their mouths. I had to move and had to get rid of him, when I did he was easily the size of a dinner plate, probably 8-10 inches in diameter. They aren’t aggressive at all, just smart ambush predators, using their natures camouflage to burrow down in moss with just their eyes showing. They sit extremely still until their prey walks right in front of them, then they lunge forward gulping their prey whole. Maybe sometime you could do a video on feeding your frog. I always found them to be really beautiful frogs. When I was younger I had many different aquariums and pets, this was years before RUclips and social media. I started have an aquarium, but like you I’ve recently gotten property and am working on rebuilding. So I’ve had to downsize. Once my new house is finished I’ll most likely get started again. Your channel is always a joy to watch and an inspiration!! I can’t wait to start an ant colony! It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time now! I live in upstate NY so I’ll have to find a good colony that’s native to my area. Thanks again for the great video. Take care Mikey!
Well, we need a kingdom befitting the name. Some kind of underwater land fusion would be rad, like the lost city of Atlantis. Pillars, caves, mist, fog, and the opportunity to introduce a sea serpent perhaps?
Awesome idea! 🙌 Bow.
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i thought it was a baby dog for a sec but when i red the title i became chill again
Its great how the marauder ants are, I'm glad they are doing well.Also I think an abandoned city would be something great for the marauder ants.
I feel bad for the mouse bruh, he’s so cute and tiny and chubby
but you don’t care about the ants ?
hi antscanada! i love your videos. you sound like an excited pokemon professor and the enthusiasm is honestly catching. it genuinely warms my heart lol.
i am curious to see what other ways they could be learned about in ways like this; noninvasive and nonharmful of course. they're an incredible species.
This video feels like a documentary about ants.