I Added Carnivorous Pitcher Plants into My Giant Rainforest Vivarium

In my giant cloud rainforest vivarium of various animals and plants, an unintentionally introduced colony of invasive black crazy ants has completely taken over the tank, so my ecological solution was to add carnivorous pitcher plants (Nepenthes sp.) to the rainforest in hopes to curb the population growth of the black crazy ants. What ended up happening to the black crazy ants, after uncovering the feeding secrets of the pitcher plants, was nothing short of an adventure! Hope you enjoy this week's botanical episode, Part 11 of my Ecosystem Vivarium Series. Ant love forever! This video was shot in 4K Ultra HD resolution.

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[AntsCanada]

Guys/AC Family, you all helped me do this! Thank you! 😭🙏🐜❤️🌿 Things are about to get even more epic next week! Ant love forever!

[sethstinson]

I didn't realize how small the pitcher plant was until the full sized cricket came up and looked like a giant.

[markc]

"Dude, next season of House of Dragon is starting up..."..."That's okay, I'm good... I'm hooked on Antscanada GRV...Those Black crazy Ants have gotta be dealt with... gonna be epic"

[AutismArchon]

Please never stop this series. It’s better than 90% of things on discover channel these days.

[kiyoraka]

Rocksteady and his cricket friend is the best thing I've seen in a while...

[redhairshanks]

That full-grown cricket appearing at the pitcher plant really felt like a giant monster appearing in a movie, the scale of these insects is crazy

[gno]

Shoutout to the brave jumping spider to challenge the dark horde! Main character move right there.

[knightofastora]

This man really yoinked an entire ant colony with his bare hands

[Dkzdream]

Just an FYI as a mechanic there’s a company called vevor selling endoscopic cameras like the Bosch one you’re using for 68-78 usd with a smaller camera and higher quality footage imaging incase you’re looking for a better solution!

[YelloLibra]

Fun fact. The pitcher can detect and make the lid as slippery as it wants. If the prey isn’t big enough for a substantial meal…it will wait until something bigger comes along. This keeps it alive without burning through unnecessary energy. Add other carnivorous plants…sundews and vfts if you want a even more efficient way of trapping.

[chance]

Better plot and story than literally everything on TV or Netflix.
Reality is stranger than fiction.
Keep documenting, keep narrating, and keep doing.
Good work my dude.

[Tankus]

The Jumping Spider: "Oh would you look at that, Dinner and a show"

[neongamer]

My sister is a fish biologist type and she suggests looking into getting a sculpin to keep the guppie population down. They’ll eat anything they can fit into their mouth and guppies can get out of control without a predator. She says you’d probably only need one.

Loving the content, it’s clear how passionate you are. Keep up the great work!

[bmccahon]

Running on the carnivorous plant theme, you could use an aquatic species of Utricularia (Bladderwort) to manage overpopulation of the guppies. They produce beautiful flowers and would only be able to target smaller baby fish, meaning the ones that survive the earliest stages would be able to continue living safely within the pond!

[themeoftheweek]

“Look at these cute little baby fishies !!”
“Now choose what you would like to watch eat them”

[bskec]

Ant alarm pheromones usually don't get released when the ant falls in water - it would draw more ants to the hazard. This would also explain why alarm pheromones aren't released when they fall into a pitcher plant.

[rutbuck]

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[danielfernandez]

This is probably the best animal/wild life content channel on youtube, the way the videos are filmed and the order of the story telling, the things happening in pandora, its all 10/10

[jwlms]

Jumping spiders are seriously the coolest spiders imo. Extremely fascinating to watch.

[SHMOUSEY]

God I love pitcher plants. We used to use them for carpenter ants.

Not as cool as a Venus fly catcher, but way more effective of a killer!