"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"
100% with you. Who needs to watch a fantasy (and often poorly written or directed) version of natural selection play out when we can watch the real thing up close and personal?
Name one show on discovery that's better than this! The story, production quality and narration is better here than everything on discovery. Id honestly be surprised if this series doesn't get offers from a network.
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!
you have any ideas about fish that would eat guppies but NOT shrimp? I was thinking some cool looking tetras would be great, but in my experience at least, tetras tend to snap up any shrimp and crustaceans around before feeding on smaller fish. mine even ate my snails, but I'm not sure if they were preying on them or just scavenging them
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!
@@dukeofthedance8062 the Bosch one he has isn’t a bad one but it’s very out dated the Vevor one I have displays images in 1080p high resolution and for the 68-78 price range is amazing since I build a lot of motors it’s useful, they have the same camera with a rotating head that allows it to bend backward for like 115$ also amazing price for the quality of the product!
@@dukeofthedance8062he gets new subscribers, those much younger than y’all, I’m only 17 and thr over exaggerating is a bit out of place but it’s for the short attention spans many have and I don’t really mind it, it also brings in some people to grow the channel
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.
I know this comment is probably a joke but it still really irritated me. Don't generalise an entire medium like that. You people are why I got an extension to turn off comments, y'all toxic as hell.
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
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.
Agreed with commentors Sundews & Venus Fly Traps would have a field day in this vivarium! More spiders, salamanders & other crabs would all be welcome additions 😚!
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!
@@lupuandrei1646 The only orchid that is strongly suspected to be carnivorous is Aracamunia liesneri which is fairly difficult to acquire but itd be pretty to include in
Keep in mind that the bladder traps are quite small and might not be big enough, and also consider that only a few aquatics are ideal for smaller bodies of water. Edit: Too much minerals in the water could also be a problem.
I think a group of 6-8 African Dwarf Frogs would be perfect! They are super cute, and decent hunters without over-eating. I keep them in a 20 gal. with endlers and a Paradise Gourami, and lots of plants and rocks to hide in
Another cool tidbit: Pitcher plants do not get the water within them from the rain, it actually is produced by the plant and within the pitcher before the lid ever opens. The plant itself produces a perfect concentration of digestive enzymes. The hood blocks OUT the rain from diluting this mixture.
Depends on the species, while this is completely true for many species, some species can dry out and rely on rain to help them fill up again where they then add their digestive enzymes into the collected rainwater
And he’s also the guy who is squeamish about earthworms. That fact surprised me more than anything else about his work with ants. But then again, everyone has things they don’t like. And for the man of AntsCanada: that thing is worms.
To be fair: both black and red crazy ants are completely harmless to humans. They don't bite, and the formic acid that they spray at other ants don't penetrate human skin. The worst thing they can do is crawl all over you and tickle you with their feet.
To be fair: black and red crazy ants are completely harmless to humans. They don't bite, and the formic acid spray that they use does not penetrate human skin.
i kept some in the UK before, put them outside during summertime. They filled up and literally overflowed with hoverflies. Eventually they each produced a really big flower and died.
@@AntsCanadahow do you notice everything that goes on in your Vivarium/enclosures with such little tiny creatures. Do you just have a magnifying glass and look around? Or do you have an eagle eye?
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.
As a very young boy 2-3 years old, it was the little jumping spiders that kept invading our Fl. Home that taught me to be unafraid of spiders Especially after I realized they were looking at me..
Remember to keep your pitcher plants extremely visible to the naked eye if you add more, it might not look like it to you and me but the pigmentation of pitcher plants are generally incredibly ultravoilet and pop out like beacons to any insect. Also I'd love to see you add those dart frogs! Just dont try to replicate their environment too much lol, dartfrogs get their toxiticy from ants and arthropods that get their toxicity from plants. Think of them as a poisonous capacitor. To my knowledge no one has been able to recreate their ability to refine and produce batrachotoxin in captivity but if your still nervous know that not all dart frogs produce deathtouch. If youre reaaallly nervous stay away from golden dart frogs and lean towards something like lovely dart frogs, which are black bodied with a cool yellow racing stripe and leopard printing - really cool frogs.
There is a species of frog that lives inside the pitcher plant and cleans up the bodies left inside the plants bowl. They are native to Asia and have a mutualistic relationship as the plant provides a shelter for the frog while the frog cleans up the pitcher!
About the pitcher plants, most nepenthes are tropical. You didn't particularly say where or how you got them, but if the pitchers were emptied in transport, you generally want to fill them up again with some rainwater 1/3 of the way. It might explain why the plants weren't as "slippery" as hoped, if they were emptied somewhat and need to input the water again. Pitchers will enjoy the humidity for sure since they do not want to be dried out, they are very popular tropical terrarium plants in plant terrariums. They are fast growers to my personal experience as well, and since they have a lot of prey in your vivarium I'd expect them to thrive and make a lot more pitchers! One thing with pitchers though, it's important to get them from safe sources because it's becoming a problem for the plants in nature that they are more and more commonly poached... but I'm sure that's something many would already know here because of the caring nature towards nature the community has! If I'm repeating a lot of things others have already said, I apologize! I would love to see a red bloody mary pitcher, it'd be so bright and almost menacing in the vivarium!~ Also I love the jumping spider I'm so invested although it's not seen so often.
For getting into those tight spaces with a high quality camera, like the pitchers, you should really consider an earwax removal tool like the bebird r1. Great tiny camera that you can remove the tool head from so you get a clear shot.
then there will be like 8 ant colonies in there. Man has way too many! I was chillin after he added the carnivorous plants but then he said he gonna add even more ants
Hey, big fan of the channel here. A good solution to the guppy problem would be to add crayfish, they’ll eat just about anything and are (in my opinion) fascinating to watch.
People really don't understand how hard it really is to keep fish, and the fact you have babies this soon out is an actual telling sign of how balanced and happy those waters really are
A better indicator would be the nerite snails and the shrimp. They are very sensitive to water conditions. If the water was bad, the nerites would be crawling away from it (they're semi-amphibious), and the shrimp would be molting like crazy.
I used to only watch Ants Canada every now and then, but when Pandora was introduced I can't stop watching and can't wait for the next upload. I even subscribed a month ago after seeing videos for the past couple yrs and finally joined/subscribed when Pandora came to being. Love the Knowledge your teaching and also learning yourself. Keep up the great work.
you should check your facts, the vivarium is named PANTDORA, there is a T in the word, i thought he said pandora as well then noticed how it was spelled and realized
I have said it before and I will say it once more. This is hands down the best channel on YT by far, and it is better than ANYTHING that Hollywood puts out. This is the only channel on YT that I turn notifications on for and the only channel that I actually rewatch videos on. You could make a fortune teaching master classes in YT video production.
My suggestion to control the guppy population would be a Sparkling Gourami. They're a nano fish and I keep them in the same perimeters as guppies without issue. They'll pick off the smaller fry but won't be big enough to eat the adults. The also do well in groups, even clicking at each other!
@@kingofxenos1974 Yeah, but AC ain't got lions. Not saying this isn't the best, but there's SO much more incredible stuff out there. Gotta keep an eye on all sources.
Dude maybe you could do a second video series Pandora chill or something like that. By just taking long shots of the creatures with less voiceover and a relaxed melody in the background. Just looking at the creatures and their behavior is really relaxing. I fell in love with Pandora
Pitchers are the best, because the ants don't see them as a threat, but as a treat. So they signal for more ants to come and follow the pheromone trail to feed, which means most of those ants that follow end up having a similar fate.
Wait until he pulls an adult anteater out of the jungle with his bare hands, then introduces it to the Vivarium. Those crazy ants will regret their decisions.
Hi there AntsCanda I have been following your channel for quite a while and I was so excited when I saw you had added carnivorous plants to Pandora I am a expert on these plants and I just wanted to let you know for the picture plants might stop producing pictures because when I saw how much the pictures had eaten, I knew they would go into a hibernated stage. These plants only actually eat once a month, and if they overfeed, they could die I recommend another carnivorous plant called a Drosera Capensis also known as a sundew these plants actually meant to catch ants and I’ve had had one for quite a while in my small humidified tank, and it has done great and it has even started to spread. I really think you should use this plant just in case case the pictures don’t work out and also the sundew make these beautiful gorgeous purple flowers every month or so. Hope this information will help you.Ant love forever.❤❤❤
@@AntsCanada I was editing photos when this video randomly popped up in my feed. I've since watched 4 in succession and have zero regrets. Keep getting after it, bro.
This is the best RU-vid series I’ve ever watched. I have zero knowledge on all this stuff but it’s giving me a whole new appreciation for nature. I’m going to build one of these one day!
Man, i love your channel. National Geographic needs to give you a legit series. Your voice is easy listening. You're very informative in an easy-to-follow way. Your camera shots are fantastic! Especially the night shots. I would love to see what you would do with a 10-20k gallon tank and a solid budget. Keep up the great work.
These pitcherplants will thrive anywhere in your vivarium as long as the rh stays above 65% most of the time. The only possible problem could be cultivar selection. The highland varieties prefer overall cooler temperatures, especially nights that are significantly colder than the day. In my experience coarse sphagnum peatmoss with Perlites or anything airy worked good. You can also use long fiber sphagnum moss with pinebark or perlite. Lately even clay pebbles from bonsai cupture have worked great especially for certain rock dwelling varieties. Research ist the most important thing. Keep doing what you are doing!
Those are going to be some happy pitcher plants. They'll probably start growing like crazy with all the food. You might want to take a net and bucket to a local pond or river and catch more insect larvae and aquatic predators. They should help the ecosystem and be interesting to film. This series is awesome.
We definitely need a Soundtrack for this series! The songs you use are so dramatic and fit the feeling of Pandora! Well done AC! This feels like a real dramatic documentary.
This is the first thought all the gen-x's likely had. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Pb8C7dxTGRM.html Oh look... They're really mad now. 😂
Mannn this was an amazing episode. The tension was real. The removal of the dark horde and watching them get eaten by the pitcher plants felt like a season 1 finale where the main ANTagonists were finally defeated.
When I was at a local nursery looking for a small indoor plant to fill a pot I had, I picked up one plant only to have finally seen my first Jumping Spider out on a leaf looking around, probably wondering what was going on. And? Everyone I've heard talk about them are right, for a Spider, it was the cutest thing I'd seen. They look so inquisitive, turning around looking every which way. I put the plant back down to leave it be.
You are a genius on how you have evolved your channel into a type of tv series, I have been watching since the the early days and it’s been a pleasure to see the channel grow into what it is now. I love it and have learned so much, I always look forward to the next episode.
I love this channel because there's no intrusive sponsorships from shady sponsors. Just a guy who thoroughly enjoys what he does and wants to share it with the world. When I'm having a bad day, I watch your videos and it fills me with positivity.
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Fun facts about nephenthes species: nephenthes biacalaria (fanged pitcher plant) has tendrils that are thick enough to home ants. This is beneficial for both ants and plant since the plant gives Nectar and bugs and the ants give carbon dioxide. Nephenthes ampullaria is known to make carpet pitchers that are wide open and would accept anything that falls into it such as fur, shell, poop, and dried leaves. Nephenthes rafflesiana makes wonderful upper pitchers that wrap around objects for holding its vine in place. Nephenthes hamata is a well known nephenthes that has black, spaced out, hooked "teeth". It also has lots of hair in its lid making it look ferocious. Nephenthes vechii grows fat robust pitchers that have wide Peristomes and a cool thing about it is that the tendrils literally crawl on the moss/ground Thats all the facts of the nephenthes I know 😅
1 I;ve raised Mollies & Guppies and both the Adults & larger Fry will eat smaller fry so wait a while to see if you really need to add predators 2 its interesting to see the black crazy ants acting odd after eating sap, i noticed a similar behavior after they ate Hoya nectar
The stipulation is that leaving invasives unchecked will ruin an enclosed ecosystem without fail. It's equivalent to not putting out a fire because the fire is technically an alternate factor. Hard to justify letting a vivarium predictably crumble.
and then he adds more ants 🤦♂like he finally finds a way to barely balance out the ants then adds like a 7th ant colony.....when he originally also said he wasn't going to add too many to it
Homie is going to make a 40min video on how he sneezed in there & it sets off a reaction of creating some super ants. And we are all going to be fully attached to it. Kidding of course, but I'm impressed how this channel has grown!
Man, I’m gonna watch this entire series full video for how ever long it goes.. this is pure entertainment and it’s about the way of life which is so unique
My four year old and I found this channel a few weeks ago, And I’m so glad we did! We watch it all the time now. She wakes up asking to watch the fire ants, her favorite so far was the fire ants vs. chicken head episode. I’m loving watching pandora though. It’s so interesting and you do such a wonderful job explaining things and making it so engaging. Thank you from both of us!
Great video as always! If you're concerned with things flying or crawling out, I would recommend a small air curtain that is automated every time you open Gia.
I’ve looked like every hour wondering what time zone a “Saturday video release” gets dropped on RU-vid, glad I was awake when it dropped. It’s my favourite so far. Craig Montréal Quebec 🇨🇦
@@AntsCanadaLike I said, this is my favourite of your series. But I do have a question… how long do you expect to have this series or “Tank”? [Edit: vivarium series] I hope it’s an ongoing series. Even if you need more time to drop the next video, don’t stress it… I’m just glad I didn’t miss something or miss an announcement you went on a trip/vacation. You ever coming to Montreal for a meet & greet? Ant ❤ forever!!!
I think that Congo tetras would be a cool addition as a predator to deal with overpopulation of the guppies. I think you’d have to be careful not to add something like a cichlid which would destroy the whole population.
For the water predator, you could add a blue whale. They have very small throats despite the fact that their mouths are really big, so they only eat smaller organisms. I think it would be perfect for your vivarium :)
The wonders of nature are sometimes so small, and that's why this channel is so great. I see the way the ants get intoxicated/slip into the carnivorous plants and I immediately think. "These kinds of natural happenings can be adapted into my fantasy universe, imagine plants drawing in adventurers the same way... or a very quick spider doing what the jumping spider does to hunt the black crazy ants. It's all very inspiring and awesome to learn from.
Carpenter Ants I believe are one of a handful of ant species that can enter a pitcher plant and drink its nectar without being digested. In fact, carpenter ants and pitcher plants in the wild have a symbiotic relationship, so if your black crazy ants are still around they’ll have to contend with carpenter ants living near the pitcher plants.
Yup you're right! I just learned this the other day! Camponotus schmitzi, the diving ant, is a type of carpenter ant that sets up its nest inside the pitcher plants. When it's time to eat they quickly run down the inner wall of the pitcher plant and dive into the nectar to eat the anthropods that have fallen to the bottom. It's pretty neat! 🐜
HE EVEN DOES THE AFTER CREDIT SCENES like this is just a tv show at this point between the voice over the weekly episodes and the cliffhangers AND I LOVE IT
I own a few carnivorous plants. My second carnivorous plant was a Sarracenia (North American Pitcher Plant; one is seen at 2:26. Despite the physical similarities, they are completely unrelated to the tropical pitcher plants that were planted here). Because it’s an outdoor plant, I set it outside on my porch. Within a short amount of time, it had a trail of ants leading right up to that kept going for a while. One fun thing is that not every ant falls in, and it’s theorized that the plant grew in a way that some ants will survive-because if they all fell in, ants would eventually wise up and stop coming. I’ve seen a picture of a Sarracenia trap leaf cut open to reveal a horror show: it was filled with dead insects. And then there was my first plant-a cape sundew. One winter, I went to water it, only to find that the water tray was filled with ants trying to get to it. These plants don’t need very many insects to survive and this one was getting a little too much stuck in its trap leaves.
Pitcher plants have microscopic hairlike structures on the interior surface of the pitchers. These structures are incredibly slick and all point inward, making any insect that can fit into the mouth slip and fall in. Some of the "intoxication" you're seeing is inebriation from the nectar, but some is simply like watching a human walk on ice. The only insect I know of that can successfully grab onto these hairlike structures is the mosquito, which can actually lay its eggs within the pitcher of some species.
Some species of carpenter ants and tiny species of frogs also can develop relationships with pitcher plants and successfully dwell inside of them, with the carpenter ants being able to swim through the digestive juices.
This series is a masterpiece. I’m italian, i don’t even like insects, but i’m watching the whole series fascinated by all this. The project is fantastic by itself, but had the great ability to show it in the most exiting way. Tanks Ps. Your voice is very clear and understandable even if english is not my first language, i’m glad for it
Carnivorous plants are so cool, I would love to see more of them! Maybe you could add some of different types like sundews? I think you should add more Tillandsias as "traps" near the pitcher plants for the Dark Horde to nest in also, it seems like that's a really effective way to remove large amounts of their colony.
And then keep removing the Tillandsias? "Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing." My concern is aren't these different tactics an attempt to control something that shouldn't be controlled? Are we just adding to this mix our desire to control and change things the way we want them to be?
i love how entertaining youve made this series. I feel like I'm watching a drama with so many different storylines and I'm excited to see when lady deathstrike gets added to the terrarium.
That cricket looked huge! That’s so weird to me how well your camera shows the ants! I thought for a second that the ants were the size of an adult cricket until the mother cricket showed up!
I love how you just play it by ear each week, and you throw out all of your hypotheses, like about the ants falling into the pitcher plant. It's cool how we get to see your mind work in real time
This is exactly what has to be done in real world application of environmental restoration projects. They have to be fluid and constantly changing to try to proactively adapt to the changing environment.
Loving this series!!! Has to be the best project in your channel's history! I can't get enough of this vivarium. Lately I have watched every video twice before the week is over. Keep these coming! Can't wait to see how the Carpenter ants acclimate and impact everything.
This channel has led to so much inspiration! I even decided to start studying the ants in my yard, and tracked how their kingdoms were growing! Soon, I watched them invade other ants kingdoms, even searching through the ant piles to find the queen ig. Eventually they became the dominant ant colony, and we saw them all over the place every day!
A colony of carpenter ants moved into the stump in my yard last spring. Idk what my neighbors thought about me staring intently at a stump hours a day 😅
I'm really glad that the pitcher plants helped you deal with a large portion of the Dark Horde. I suspect you didn't get all of them, but hopefully your plan to add a colony of carpenters will help deal with the next batch. (crossing fingers and toes.)
10:00 It's also possible that they won't try to rescue an individual ant for its own sake. In the case of the jumping spider, the victim's pheromones may not have meant, "Save me!" but instead, "Predator! Get rid of it!"
Being a gamer, an avid anime watcher etc, I don't really do much in nature, but somehow this series is so good, its the thing I look forward to the most every week. Thank you so much for all the effort you put in
@@i-am-frenchie2480 Not that I know about this person's situation, but as someone with similar tastes, that's rather difficult to do when you're surrounded by concrete and asphalt, instead of nature
