Ant Farm: How to Do A Test Tube Setup for New Queen Ants | AntsCanada Tutorial #35

To have a great ant farm, your queen ant must succeed during her founding stage. This video tutorial covers how to create a test tube setup for your newly caught queen ant providing her a claustral chamber for her to start laying eggs. This video applies to fully claustral ant species.

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[RHACOREBERS]

I just caught my first queen! I found her drowning in my rabbits water bowl, so I fished her out. She just laid her first clutch of eggs!!! I'm soooo excited!

[wilhelmthomsen]

I tried to catch queen ants in my garden. Used 5 hours and didn't find any. Walked out on the road and found one in under one minute.

[FloridaAnting]

Thank you!!! This is helping so many new antkeepers start the hobby

[forthejaffas]

Aww man...i remember when you first realesed the first test tube setup a couple of years ago ;-; memories!!!!

[cjimmortalify]

I recently decided to give a colony a try and searched for queens on the walkway to my home in the country. I found 7 Carpenter ant queens! That wasn't even all of them! I just moved them from my improvised set up to test tubes. Now I get to wait!

[schlachtfilms]

8:08 i heard that ice cream music thing and i remember when i was a bit younger as a kid since i was in philippines too i heard that sound all the time so much nostalgia haha

[Greg]

thanks so much for making these videos. Thanks to you I now appreciate ants a lot more and just recently cuaght two weeks after a rainfall!

[whitney]

Thanks for making all of your videos! I've always wanted to raise an ant colony ever since I was a little girl. Watching these videos with my two boys has inspired me to give it a real go! It's been great bonding with my kids just going out hunting for queens lol. So far we have 2 successful camponatus queens. The one laid her first batch of eggs only hours after we caught her! Going to be a great long term addition to our family of ant nerds!

[silver]

Yo.. This is so interesting! Subscribed!

[xjHUN]

i know it's overkill but maybe i'll build a dark "room" (a big box or something). And use an infracamera to watch it/them everytime i want. :D

[buffster]

First ants caught today, in Derby, England 🐜😄 I’m super excited to set the test tubes up and get started!

[xavierthespiderhunter]

Thx got the videos I recently caught a queen. Used your test tube setup and she laid eggs in 2 days. Thx for helping a 14 year old out

[Frglich]

Hey Sir, i saw your vids yesterday. Today i started searching and i found one. THX :)

[thefightingfedora]

Just caught a carpenter queen. Here goes nothing.

[ashleypodhrasky]

I can just keep the ants in my room, it's hot, it's humid, it's on top of the garage, it's where the sun rises every morning.... woo hot room

[Andy-kqwq]

Thank you man I was looking for everywhere and then when you said that word I looked it up and I found one in my area so thank you ever give him a round of applause he's the best ant keeper ever

[joperhop]

Bookmarked, thank you, im getting my first Queen next week hopefully. (Messor barbarus), and my son is interested so was thinking of trying this out as we are coming close to flying ant time and been looking for a few days for something to help me understand. Thanks for all the videos, hooked on watching them and (hopefully) im starting to understand ant farming a bit more :)

[crowbarjnes]

thank you so much for this video, for all of your videos. looking forward to raising my own colony .

[TweetyTwT]

This is so helpful. I caught my first queen yesterday plus 9 other queens, they were nuptial flying, there was so many atalets around! :D Bought 15 test tubes today in a hobby store but your idea with a water pick from a flora store is a good idea!

[Dontdoxme]

I suggest documenting your queens. Keep a catch date, monitor when they lay eggs, take notes.