The Advanced Guide To Ant Keeping

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[antsofsydney]

A few extra tips:
- Brood boosting sometimes works with different species from the same genus. Try to aim for same species group though.
- You can sometimes brood boost with workers if you can find callows.
- Ant colonies hate blacklights, so you can use them to get them to move.
- Pisces feeders are usually overpriced at most pet stores, so buying them in bulk online is much cheaper, especially if you want to breed crickets. (good luck with that though) Crazy Kritters has the cheapest crickets in Australia.
- If you need to provide workers for parasitic queens, make sure to use callows only. Don't make the same mistake as I did with my Papyrius... (。_ 。)
- If you can afford a 3d printer and have a lot of colonies, it's so worth it. I bought an Ender 3 recently and it's been so helpful for antkeeping.

That Papyrius queen was tough though... she even survived a few hours in my dad's pocket!

[FizzleFX]

14:54 the shoelace was to build a lasso. The leaf to carry it and the bottlecap to save all the sweat of riling in that wild beast so he makes it back.

Mc Guyver be so proud

[FizzleFX]

Bonus tip: Use tinfol to bake them to a crisp (same principle as baked botatoes)

[crematogaster]

Experimenting with diet may be beneficial and interesting, as ants will be able to obtain different nutrients. There is a drawback though, some vegetables and fruits may be sprayed with pesticides, so make sure you washed and removed skin from what ever you decide to feed to your ants. This may be especially good practice, if you have your own garden. P.S. I knew an ant keeper that fed his colony with cucumbers, because ants preferred it to other offering. Although, I think a pear or orange would do better in most cases. ( Experimenting may be safer, from giving smaller quantity to large colony)

[anantguy]

Always use macro lenses and look thoroughly for any mites on polygamous queen ants before putting them together, trust me, it helps a ton

[damienbailey]

Been trying to get into this hobby so much. Love watching these videos so much !!

[paysonspurgeon]

I love how no one is talking about how he put his dog in his freezer

[LENA-plpu]

I have brood boosted with my formica neogagates. it worked out great. got 20 new cocoons that have just hatched

[Xkamas]

Hello i watched this video its old but so good! I wanted to try this hobby so much i watched it all day! Now i bought the best formicarium+outworld a messor queen and some equipments it was pricy😅 but i bought them and they are coming! Im a kid thats just 13 years old but i love trying hobbys and ants!

[anthonyfilshie]

The part about the capture had me cracking up. The oddest one I’ve done was having my saliva on my finger and holding down an crude tipi around the carpenter ant. I had a mile walk back to my carefully holding this delicate little structure around a number of people. When I got in for a better look… literally a super major. That day spent like an hour on recognizable differences but I think that “mistake” made me more into the idea lol

[RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR]

Few tips on feeding

I suggest feeding them rice as it is soft and easy to eat and never hesitate on what your giving them ants can eat anything choc, mold you name it but i suggest you feed them rice, oil bread, fresh dead insects this is because ants sometimes do not bother such as Rhytidoponera metallica so this is depending on how deadly the species are i also recommending watering the soil 2 times a day. because they can drink the water through the soil and it keeps their home healthy if you need more just tell me i've studied ants 7 years so i probably know

[robknott]

Great channel live my ants glad you hit you're Goal and hope you keep growing!

[mantisaddict]

Really nice video as always 👍, I love watching your vids :)

[phoenixfeather]

im not a really new ant keeper. i learned all the winter about ants and i watch ant guides for something that i missed i just catched this spring 2 Formica Rufibarbis queens

very good video ^^ i reccomend watching!

[aussieantadventures]

I brood boosted 2 Campontus Consibrinus colonies successfully.
I brood boosted an alate from one of the colonies and she denied the brood.
What I found: Colonies will more likely accept brood because the workers believe the brood is outside and will bring it inside.

As queens know what brood they have they will not accept.
2 reasons for this:
1: they might be scared and not know what they are faced with.
2: Since the queens are in a claustral chamber, in the wild brood wouldn't suddenly appear

[bernadethcelso]

Im frome philipines and iwant your videos

[michaelcronk]

How do you manage all these colonies I can't even get one going and I've been trying for years I have the worst luck with everything anyway good video

[FizzleFX]

12:50 LMAO you compare VERY different sizes and types of ants. There are some that can climb anything and those that can't! or not well!

Messor Barbarus have no issue climbing that tub and will wear down that powder in a few weeks.

[HappilyEverAnter]

How big do you think my colony needs to be to feed a small dog to? Haha, great video.

[Jeremyveale]

Early! haven't watched it yet but im sure ill love it