TOP 5 Mistakes in Ant Keeping | How to Raise an Ant Colony

Learn How to Raise an Ant Colony and improve your Experience by avoiding these Top 5 Mistakes Ant Keeping Beginners make when they start the hobby. You love Ants as Pets, but face Problems with your Ant Farm or Formicarium? A Guide made to help you overcome difficulties when growing Pet Ant Colonies in Captivity.

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02:00 - Mistake #5
03:23 - Mistake #4
06:37 - Mistake #3
08:59 - Mistake #2
10:32 - Mistake #1

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[AntsVienna]

Hope this Tutorial helps you guys out! Let me know by commenting💬

[nathant]

I'm an ant newbie but I wanna add:
1. Don't ever use bugs out in your garden to feed your ants due to pesticides and parasites.
2. For certain ants like Carpenter Ants, quite a few people notice growth issues when they're about 2-4 years because the ants also need a supply of URIC Acid, you can find it powder form but it is naturally from bird poop or roaches, especially if the roaches are fed on a high protein diet and then later, fed to your ants.
3. There's a slightly different temperature gradient for Outworld and inside the Nest. Like carpenters, inside their nest they like it 68-77 for non desert, the outworld they can handle 82F or maybe more. Some ant species become permanently infertile if the temperature is too hot inside the nest, some as low as 86.

[kenjiro]

Native species are my go too, or ones I can find locally, are probably the best species for me. I plan on looking for acorns, and looking for temnothorax acorn ants. These species stay very small and their colonies are also small, so perfect for someone that wants a small formicarium..

[Natural_Power]

Another part to add to tip 1 (the last one)
Find the ants you want to keep in the wild, it'll help you design an outworld, for example you'll find Crematogaster scuttelaris can travel very far so you know not to make a small outworld but to ass some walking space/tubes

[gohanis]

I am so happy to find your channel, I have no idea why it's never come up. I started watching antscanada a couple years ago and every Saturday is my favorite day. Can't tell you how happy I am to find you and your backlog of videos and tutorials, I love the way you speak, you give important details without overloading me, which I really like cuz I'm an amateur. Thank you!

[intriguingants]

This helped me alot I'm just waiting for Europe nuptial flight 👍✅

[MinigunL]

Cool video! Just know that some genera of ants can actually skip hibernation, even if they're from temperate regions where it gets cold. For example, Tetramorium, Solenopsis, and even Myrmica. Now for some others like Formica and Camponotus you probably should hibernate them but just keep in mind that it depends on the genus.

[richarddaviddy]

Love this video ! I just finished making my Grout Formicarium.

[AntWarriors]

Amazing video man, that's a lot of good information you gave there. Great job man👏👏👍👍

[weasel]

Great video! I keep a Messor barbarus but I didn't hibernate them this winter because I couldn't find a place that had the right temperature :(

[blithefulbee]

When I first started, a year ago, I made lots of mistakes and it resulted in the death of many of my first colonies/queens.. my biggest mistake was being impatient. This hobby definitely requires LOTS of patients.

[MrOcelotMan]

what if you live in somewhere like Ireland where it only snows maybe 2-3 times every winter? should we let them hibernate or is it ok to not have them hibernate

[antsandpets]

great video your I bet your tips will really help some new ant keepers :)

[Ninuturu]

amazing footage in the introduction ^^
Very informative video

[blithefulbee]

I started antkeeping when I was 10-11 yeah I made all of the common mistakes.. even learned how cruel nature is (I have to dissect my crickets before feeding them to my ants, and most crickets have parasites, maggots.. god forbid that horse worm or whatever hellspawn they call it, and some other weird parasite I observe takes over it’s host and eats it’s organs alive..) but that’s made me become a better ant keeper, and now beekeeper, 3-4 years later ^^

[VarmintLP]

9:15 Hibernation is important. But sadly you cannot always hibernate them. Especially if you have a big setup that you cannot move. :/

[alexandernh]

Hmmm 🤔
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Mistake number 4 sounds a bit familiar 🤔🤔
- ant Holleufer 😂

Els a great video 😄🙌🏻

[gaborbarany-helmik]

I pudded my Camponotus vagus colonie into a formikarium when they had 5 workers and they are doing very good so far they are eating and drinking and growing, and thanks for the help cause i didn't know when do i need to move my lasius emarginatus colony into a formikarium .🐜🐜

[CasualGaming]

I want that at 4:32 That looks really cool, the ants cant escape because of the water, so they're is no need for a lid.

[MorphAgeAI]

Thank you for sharing these tips my friend