How to Keep an Ant Colony

THE BASICS OF ANT KEEPING//KEEPING A COLONY

Following on from the previous episode of "The Basics of Ant Keeping", I will be showing you guys what to do when your ant colony outgrows their test tube set up (founding chamber).

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00:00 Introduction
00:40 Single Organism
01:43 Moving out of The Test Tube
02:03 A New Set Up
02:34 Natural Nests
02:48 YTONG & Acrylic Nests
03:07 The Size of the New Nest
03:31 Making your Own Nest
03:45 The Foraging Area
04:19 The Tubing
04:31 A New Home
04:42 Moving your Ants in
05:31 Hydrating the Nest
05:58 Time to Wait
06:36 The Final Steps
07:25 Signing Off
07:36 Outro

[AntsBritania]

This is officially NOT the final episode of “The Basics of Ant Keeping”. I will be releasing a variety of more episodes that will cover feeding, cleaning, hibernating etc. If you guys are enjoying this series, be sure to stay tuned! - Cameron/Ants Britania

[AntWarriors]

Thank you for answering my last question.

[TheDragonBloom]

Loving the tutorials! I'm from Texas and just getting into ant keeping and find these videos super helpful! Thank you so much!

[thedutchant]

I really like this video. Because it helped me a lot!

[NovoAnts]

Excellent, great series. Very professional

[hugofolpp]

“We are back, with the third, ant final episode..”

[kaptinkrybaby]

hey i do have questions. 1 Can some ants chew their way through the AAC like pavment ants or carpenter ants?, 2 where are you watering your ants in this setup? 3and what if that ants escape? currently i have a queen with 3 ants.

[robertallan]

Fantastic videos. At what point in the three videos does the ants have their first overwinter hibernation?

[AntWarriors]

Where do you buy ytong itself to make your own ytong nest?

[adamfawwaz]

Does bull ants only live in Australia?

[FizzleFX]

I can't recommend a digging nest for starters.
You can't observe them and cleaning is hard.
Some top down nests do have barriers to expand the colonies size over time

[antcity]

Thanks for the info! do you need to have them in a test tube? i want mine to roam free

[antsuk]

Hi ants britannia can you tell me how to care on messor bouvieri because my queen has three workers no brood I check her once a week so can I have some tips plz

[EllieW]

Hey, where can I get queen ants from?

[FizzleFX]

5:20 WOH DONT DROP THEM! I heard that can have bad effects
Just place it and they leave!

[splishiplays]

For whoever that will but an ant farm DO NOT buy a gel farm.

[mindplayerz]

i just made a fossil ant farm with REAL fossils