Prepare yourselves for a sad surprise(?).
Enjoy this fascinating vivarium update featuring this vivariums wildlife including snails, slugs, ants, spiders, termites and much much more! Focusing on the silver weaver ant and argentine ant colony residing within, also taking a dip into the pool as promised ;D.
Thank you for watching and have a fANTastic day!
Nordic ants
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Honestly there is nothing quite like your channel. Your vivarium is filled with all kinds of creatures and it seems like it is booming with activity all the time. I love the diversity within this system and especially enjoy the time lapse videos where you show all the scavenging organisms eating some food you left for them. Sure, there are channels which focus on ants out there, but you focus on the whole system and I love that. Keep up the good work dude!
Thank you so much for this comment! Motivational :D
why don't you add multiple types of algae, competition should keep balance in the pool of the terrarium. p.s. can you just mix all the terrariums, you have, together
I'm glad this exists
@@nordicants6232 you should get winter ants they will stand a good chance against the argentines
Add some seed shrimps, triops, cyclops and dapnia eggs to your pond that should help with the algae once they hatch. You could also add some caradina shrimps as well, or amano shrimps. But you'd have to make sure the pond is always full of water. Possibly add a water circulation pump with filter.
Awesome! Will take some notes :D
Research them too, as well as their care. Lots of YTers with videos on them.
I wish I had a vivarium like that
Build one!
i wish i could or rather i might someday but am a bit busy right now!
Wish we could get weekly uploads!
I wished that too :-(
YES FINALLY
Snails in time lapse are looking so cool!
Another awesome video
Colonies having nuptial flights are the most interesting things about ant keeping. Sad to see the Weaver Ant colony go :( But I hope the other colonies won’t have the same demise. Hope to see the next update soon!
Thank you so much! And yeah
You are like antscanada but 10 times better because 1. No clickbait bs 2. No overdramatic bs 3. You have a very cool vivarium :D
Thanks! :D
I hope for a video on all the species besides the ants living in the vivarium. I wanna see what they're up to too!
Sure! Time to time in all videos :D
Vivarium=Super ultra mega lit
This is my favorite nature channel
A very interesting and unique setup you have going on. Keep them coming
I am so glad you posted another viv update! Many thanks!
Also, can you share the dimensions of your tank?
2 meters and 70 cm :D
Thanks! By the way, your content is great! I watched your ‘title sequence’ montage in this video about 10 times just because it is so epic!
Awesome! You should timelapse them eating a dead fish for the next video
Brilliant video again man, hopefully not as long for the next update!!! 🇬🇧
Thank you!
Dude, this channel has turned into my favorite thing to watch on KZhead!!!
I love how you have an all in one much more like a real life nature set up Nordic Ants forever #
Can you make an update on your termite colonies PLS!
Not much! They just eat everything :D will later though, have some plans
Aww man really... the silver ones were my favorite....
I knowww! :-( but dont worry! The dino ants are up to interesting stuff lately!
So don’t lose hope
wow! so many organisms in this vivarium amazing :)
Yay I wait LONG TIM for this
For the algae I would recommend Amano shrimp and ramshorn snails
Cool! Noted :D
You should also add assassin snails to keep the population in check
Wooow It's like antcanada
Finally your back
This vivarium is huge and alsomeeeee
Ayyyy another vid. Awesome work fam. I always love the shots you can get of the Vivarium which make it look so natural.
Imperial Ants thank you so much! :D
Nordic Ants btw if the weaver ants are still alive you probably won’t be seeing them for a few months as they only nest arborealy when they get to about 60+ workers (in my experience anyway).
Another great video today. Thanks for the update! There is a big chance that your Polyrhachis is still alive, I have a P. dives and they have multiple nest 5 in total and 1 under the ground!
You serious?! Omg hows the one underground
Great to see this update, I have been missing you. Sad to see the Silver Weavers go, they were beautiful and will be missed. I agree with Reptiles Rock on the nerite snails for the algae. Excellent video as always. 🖤🇨🇦
Thank you so much again! :D
You should add more water life
Please try to make a weekly update on the vivarium
Tooo time consuming :(
love your vids! keep doing it :)
Yahoo new video! it's fantastic in the lake you can add shrimp cyclops Daphnia and freshwater mussels and then everything will be clean :) and Argentine ants should be removed
Will take notes :D
;)
If the snails aren't enough then you may want to consider very small shrimps. Many eat algae to my knowledge, though I don't know anything about freshwater shrimps in Thailand. But you have to be careful when handling aquatic animals in such an environment. The pond is pretty much a puddle. There isn't a lot of space which greatly limits what you can include and ammonia could easily build up and poison anything living there. Actually now that I think about it, tadpoles are another option. They're adapted to living in tiny pool of water, so they fit right in. And some species do eat algae. Though you do have to be careful on what species you pick up, other tadpoles are predatory.
Such a helpful comment! Thank you for your time :D
you can add crayfish/shrimps/crabs into the water
Thanks for a Awsome update and sorry for your loss. =/
Thank you for watching!
Amazing love the journeys of the vivarium
Thank you! :D
Wow 1200 th viewer plus nice video but I also think out names are very similar
Yes we have similar names xD
ITS so genially AND fabulous theme
Very great video as always!, keep up the good work mate! ;) I might recommend you some Animal to take care of the algae, I recommend you to get some Ramshorn Snail cause they eat algae usually. I am sorry to hear that the Silver Weaver Ant colony has Deceased. A very nice Vivarium btw it's looks like a huge ecosystem in a tank. ;)
Thank you so much! :D
Great video glad to see you back
the pink spring tails are usually referred as pink tropical spring tails maybe the purple mold is also tropical
You are one of my favorite channels you should post more
Great video! :-)
Incredible video! What did you do with the army ant queens you caught? Do you plan on introducing them im the vivarium? Keep the amazing job coming it was definitely Worth the wait
She is being raised atm :D yes maybe eventually as she has a small legion!
Nordic Ants Just a tip give them the option of a dirt nest as soon as they have workers.
Funny and educational ! What could go wrong !
MESSOR Keeper Absolutely nothing
World of Ants I could think of some things that could happen
Well not really in the sense of nature it’s just natural selection weed out the weakAnd replace it with the strong that’s how nature is and that’s how we came to dominance nothing happens on accident in nature
World of Ants what if mikey boustos got drunk in his ant room and fell into the fire nation
Hahahahaha Well that didn’t happen in nature that happened because that Fucking giant fell on some tiny ants
Very cool
So big terrarium wtf :D nice video
Got to keep it interesting
Great video:)
I'm watching it now dude -_- I didn't get the notification! Nice job 😊
Thank you man! Youre great
Nordic Ants 😅 you're great and you're doing a great job, keep it up 😊!
You're back ! I love you're vivaruim btw when I get enough money ill try to make one like that
Thats super!
great vid . cheers
YEAH AN UPDAAAAAAATE!!!!!!!!!
Since your last video I have made a vivarium using yours for inspiration. It turned out quite different because I wanted deeper water so I went for about 8" deep water by placing large rocks all over the bottom to about 10" depth except for a small open space for the pool. Over the rocks I placed felt and then piled the dirt on top of that so it wouldn't just fall into the rocks and water. The footprint of my tank is the same as yours I think, 6'x2', but I think yours is taller than mine because by the time I had the false bottom and then some dirt in there the 'ground level' is about halfway up the tank, there is about a foot of space between the soil and the lights, but it still looks good...just not how I planned it. (my tank is 24" tall, I'm guessing yours is at least 30") I added a colony of carpenter ants from another small 30 gallon vivarium I had and immediately after I put the log they were living in inside the new vivarium they moved to a bigger log, but I haven't seen them since. It has been about a month since I last saw even a forager. Some people have suggested they might not like the humidity in the vivarium and so are not coming out, if they haven't already found some way to escape. Other people have suggested that I maybe overfed them and they just don't need any foraging right now. I noticed you have some bug corpses in your water area, if you can get water striders/water skippers then they will eat those bugs for you.
Oh by the way, I wanted the water deeper so I could add fish. I have a blue ram cichlid and some neon tetras, plus a red claw crab and some ghost shrimp.
Saphire Throated Carpenter Ant cool! Do you min telling me what species? And where you live? Nevertheless i m always patient when ants disappear because they always pop up later :D maybe you ants are nocturnal? Have subterranean aphid farm? They hibernate(your vivarium is a bit too cold)?
Sorry, I didn't see your reply for some reason. I think the Carpenter ant species is Camponotus Pennsylvanicus. I just made a recording today, but it is very bad quality. Still, it is good enough to get an idea of the setup. kzhead.info/sun/atl_fbl9f2qJl3k/bejne.html
Great video! Hope you make a new video soon! :)
Will try :D
Nice Video hop next time is soon
I love this channel
Ayee another banger from the homie 🔥🔥🔥
Trying introduce a giraff soon man. Soon
Yess bro 😂😂😂❤
How many terrariums do you have? I love your channel! Hope to see new terrarium builds! :D
I will replicate a temperated one, it will be as big :D this is my only current one
Takk for svar! Ser virkelig frem til alle dine videoer videre! :D
DUDE I LOVEEE LOVE LOVE IT KEEP IT UP PLEASE MOAR
sooo satisfying!
Yeah hey dude Took you so long to get here I was the first guy here
All hail pink springtails Jesus
Jahahahahah thats funny xD
Guess I'm a bit late to the video, but will we see a vid about your (what look to be maybe) Coptotermes colonies, the ones in the test tubes? I've recently gotten into keeping termites, and I'm curious to see what your setup looks like. Thanks, and great video as always.
I am quite certain that the pinkish worms are red velvet worms.They are pretty rare in the wild.
😍 wow
I think you should get rid of the argentine ants
I triiiied :((
He doesn’t know where the nest is though
Amazing terrarium, i like it !
Thank you! Love your messors :D
R.I.P Silver ant colony.
Rip natural selection taking place
Do you plan adding a bigger animal? For example if your snails breed too much, you could add a mouse that eats them
Interesting! Maybe not in the tropical one... but i have plans for a same sized temperated one! A mouse would work wonders
RIP :(
Yeah i know :,( so sad
Hope they don't kill any more of the ants and definitly not the termites
Both you and i know they dont stand a chance vs the termites ;-)
Maybe it’s just natural selection
That's true
can you tell me how to raise termites??
Please show us all your colonies :) *especially* the founding colonies. Thanks :)
Those red springtails are so cool. I wish I could get them in the UK! To kill the string algae you could add some nerite snails or amano shrimps? They eat algae very well and will not overpopulate in freshwater as they can only breed in brackish water.
Cool! Noted :D
Finally!!! Yay!!
Kt Balcom I know right
Great vid :)
I think it's good to show the vivarium from afar so we can see where the colony of ants
One question how did you made that termite nest of the termite nest?
Which one? Test tube or vivarium
Both please..hehe
What?
If your going to keep Argentine ants if your adding colony's make sure their population is high or the will be preyed on be the Argentine ants like your weaver ants
True! Thanks for that thought :D
Where do you get your springtails from?
The dirtxD hehe
If you add more snails to the pond add Assassin snails to keep their populations in check
try visiting some local creeks and swamps and observe what algae controlling organisms live there! I'm sure you can incorporate some local shrimp, daphnia, and skud species that'll aid in the control of algae. more aquatic plants could help by blocking out more light and absorbing more waste thus out competing the algae. all if wich im sure can easily be sourced from local bodies of water.
Awesome comment! Thank you :D
Hi nordic!
Hi man!
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Nordic Ants I think it would be awesome if you put lots of different food types in one small space and watched all of the different creatures that emerged!
I watched your first video in the instagram and found a video about the triops Did you let them out into the lake? and there are still? you can let them now-excellent cleaners
What size tank do you use?
You should use shrimp for the pond so the algae doesn’t take over
I’m waiting for the next video
YES FINALY btw i hope it i an amzing vid as alwaysssss
Thank you! Hope i didnt disappoint ;D
you didnt
greek mapping Did you expect anything less
How long does it take for nymphs to appear in a termite colony??
did you have a water resevoir??
New update 😫! Soon
Hey, i have a contained colony i can't identify just growing, they don't seem to be taking any food for the last 2 months, is it okay? Anything i put there just... stays there.
Well as long as they look healthy yes :D what do they look like and where are you from?
Argentine ants decimated my native colonies on my property. Even the tiny acorn ants that used to nest in pinecones that were bored out by the weevils. I would pick up fallen pinecones that had holes in them to throw out to help stop the spread of the weevils, until I started finding some occupied by the absolute most tiniest ants I have ever found. They were so small I thought they were red mites at very first glance. Till they started frantically moving out eggs and brood then I looked closer.lol no exaggeration, they were the size of 2 period Mark's. [ .. ] exactly. The best identification I found for them on google is the name acorn ants. But here on KZhead, any videos of acorn ants show ants twice the size. Anyway. Going way off topic. But now that Argentine ants moved in, and were spotted raiding the pine trees in my front yard, I haven't seen a single one of the teeny tiny ants. I was hoping to catch a queen this year too. Ugh.
i recently caught 2 queen ants im not the best at identifying species i caught either a big headed ant (Pheidole) or fire ant queen(Solenopsis) and a pavement ant (Tetramorium) or little black ants (monomorium minimum). the fire ant or big headed ant seems too large to be a fire ant queen and im not sure about the pavement ant or little black ants.
JoeSSImperial want to learn more about ants check out this discord server discord.gg/SxGT8ww
ok i will check out that discord server soon probs tommorow
Ok thx
by that I mean (polyrhachis Weaver ant)
👍👍👍
testtube steup help for termites please
id love to know what animals are in here so I could recreate it myself.
Impossible for me to know! :D
Sees an Ants Canada video. Sees Nordic Ants video. HMMMMMMMM. Nah, forget Ants Canada. Nordic Ants is like 10 to the 45th power better. Keep it up!
Wow thank you!
I see no reason to take sides. I'm just happy there is so much info about ants popping up. I grew up watching almost nothing other then nature documentaries. Ants never got near the time I felt they deserved. (I grew up in the early 80's)
Erlyk Dalkien true!
Yea, I could have been a bit harsh to Ants Canada, but here's the thing. In the last 2 years, he has made his videos super dramatic. I just feel as if his channel has lost it's magic it used to have. I understand there has to be some excitement in an ant video, but he has gone completely overboard in my opinion. Really, small ant youtubers will almost always be better than larger ones. If anyone has a counterclaim, I will accept your opinion no problem. Bye for now.
I think You should increase the population of flatworms there are a shit ton of snails And slugs
Yeah! The hammerhead just reproduced ;-)
Great vid, i wrote a massive amazing comment but youtube didnt post it and deleted it instead and im lazy so keep doin good job and argentine ants = bad. XD Lol have a great day!
Thank you!
How big is the whole vivarium?
2 meters and 70 cm :D
How big is the glass tank
2 meters and 70 cm :D