AQUATIC MADNESS! Crab, Ants, Flat Bugs and much more in this vivarium update!
A brand new vivarium update including a fresh water-crab, flat beetles, crickets and much more! Hope you enjoy this episode.
This vivarium update will also feature this vivariums other wildlife including snails, slugs, ants, spiders, termites and much much more! Focusing on the vivariums more basic animals this time and their role in this vivarium! ;D.
Thank you for watching and have a fANTastic day!
Nordic ants
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Those tiny creatures at 3:35 are detritus worms and ostracod seed shrimps. Both are pretty beneficial in moderate numbers as they help consume decaying matter and leftover food etc in an aquarium. But in huge numbers, seed shrimps can attack live water plants. But in a natural setup like this, both are harmless and pretty interesting!
Awesome! Thank you so much :D and yes I am looking forward to observe them :D
This concept of a massive vivarium that is like a ecosystem is fantastic. I know some other people have also done it in the past, but this is honestly the best and most fun/entertaining one to watch. And your documentation is great!
Thank you sm for the kind words!! :D
This is probably the coolest Vivarium ever.
I always look forward to updates on the vivarium. It's always amazing to see how the ecosystem develops and how the organisms thrive in it
Thank you so much!! :D
5:40 that a fearsome mudcrab
!!! Awesome isnt he?
Yeah it is very awesome:)
This vivarium is looking better than ever! Everyone seems to have settled in, and found their own piece of real estate. Love the crab, he is just too cute, and has clearly been busy. Did the water come from a natural pond somewhere? Those flat bugs are rather strange, it will be interesting to see how they fare, and I think the little tarantula is a cutie, I’m glad she found a suitable niche. I’m always delighted to see an update from you, and really enjoy the ever evolving life in there. Stay happy, and thanks for sharing.🖤🇨🇦
Thank you again!!! Yeah the crab has really settled in :D have a fANTastic day!
FINALLY YOU POSTED!!! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOOOOO LONG!!!
Im so sorry!!!! Happy you are excited :D
@@nordicants6232 i think there is competition between the snails, roaches, crickets and flat bugs, and i think the snails are losing because there are less than before p.s. next episode can you explain how the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems interact and what roll do the ants play in the (hypothesised) 4 way competition
Interesting idea! I will look into it for a future update
You don’t have to be sorry Nordic ants just keep making amazing content
Part of the reason why I like this channel: people can roast ants canada without being roasted back
Beautiful shots! Its interesting to see that controlled enviroment with the experimental ideas, and narration you have.
This is one of the best updates in the vivarium! Incredible! Well, I do not know anything about the water inhabitants: (in my opinion, the crab makes the lake terrible). flat bugs will very well affect the vivarium, will serve as food and will be cleaners. cockroaches same. I HAVE INTERESTING IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS: add isopods for cleaning, praying mantis, centipedes, water scorpions, water striders. It will also be very interesting to add chelifer cancroides. and again I ask: give each inhabitant a breeding partner. You can also plant plants like strawberries to give vivarium sugar etc. add very moisture-loving plants to strengthen the soil near the lake (will not fall into the lake).
Денис Сытник awweeeessoooome comment my friend! I Remember you from ig :D will consider all your suggestions and some of them are already inside! But way too illusive :( and you dont like mer crabbie? :D because of the mud mounds maybe
@@nordicants6232 i write same comments in all your vid. about mr crab - yea because of the mud.
The crab is my favorite organism in the tank
I like him too!!
You have insects in your vivarium I never even heard of!!! Keep up the good work!!
Great to hear! Thanks :D
respect
You should add cherry shrimp from a pet store they are freshwater plants herbivores and about an inch long, also of you want to feed them anything feed them boiled vegetable leaves like spinach and kollard grains, or just fish food, they will also eat algae
Interesting idea! Will look em up :D
Those snails and worms often comes to my aquarium. I know that the snails eat scraps and algea, but the worms im yet to know. My theory is that they are eating some bacteria or they are a parasit.
Interesting! Thank you for sharing
Nordic Ants and also i beliveve that if u put a stickleback fish there it will controll the population. U can actualy find them all over the eu even in both norway and sweden, but if im correct u live now in sa-Asia. So i think u could buy one of those then u will have a water beast. It will almost be like a crocodille for the insects. Maybe u can try that.
I like the closed ecosystem idea. I will try it for sure!!
I like this new update. I really like crickets too. They're underrated.
AGREED! ;)
so glad you have the roaches in there! i love them and i LOVE this vivarium ^^ i recently got three juvenile hissing cockroaches!!theyre so cute and im SOOOO happy to see them added here!
This comment makes my heart swell with joy
This is amazing keep going and yes all the cratures are amazing and beautiful
Thanks man!
Finally, I've been craving a new vid! Also nice intro. Keep up the good work
Thank you so much! Sorry for the wait :(
@@nordicants6232 it's fine, as long as it's good content (which it definitely is)
I think that the small creatures in the water are nematodes (kind of worms) and ostracods (I hope I spell it right) that basically are very small crustaceans that eat algae and often come in aquariums with plants or soils
Thank you sm for the comment! Love my audience and all your active participation
Definitely some kind of ostracod, I believe they also are called daphnia or seed shrimp for short
@@FieryCoal maybe related to daphnia, ive seen them before on my live plants for my aquarium and they are a lot smaller and dont have dark shells
Lagarda Lagarda oh, ok
I'm glad I stay subscribed to this channel, the vivarium updates are always so amazing
Thank you so much!!!!
A nordic guy that has ants? Cool!
those tiny things with the little shells are a species of seed shrimps (Ostrocods)
I just found this channel. Love it. I have aquariums, tarantulas, vampire crabs, cockroaches and I live in Norway.
Awesome! Thanks for watching :D
Not only do you shows tons of species, but you also do it in a very professional way including latin names Ostracoda in the water ?
Wow yeah!
The small things moving about in the water might be one of several types of arthropods. Copopods, Daphnia, Seedshrimps, or any of other kinds, and they generally all eat floating algae in the water column, though hey can be fed on small amounts of yeast.
Thats great! Taking care of the algae ;)
Quite sure they are seed shrimps, possibly the species Cypridopsis vidua ;)
@@nordicants6232 They eat some but not all algae types.
oh yeah yeah
Оу я думал я один....
Lmao we made it to a Nordic ant video
WE SHALL TAKE OVER
сука блять what you favourite animal inside? ;D
Love your crab
Same!!!
Simply amazing! I can’t wait for the other new videos :)
I was rewatching a bunch of your old videos recently, so I'm so happy you uploaded!
Thank you so much! Hope it was up to expectation :D
@@nordicants6232 loved it
Amazing! I love the variety of beautiful animals. It really is like a mini ecosystem!
Great video as always! Never get bored watching all the organisms in your vivarium! I have to say you are the one that inspired me to try adding multiple ant species in a vivarium! Still thinking about my options!:)
Awesome and thank you for the nice comment :D
enternal night oh my!!! Be careful, some species might not be able to coexist :D depending on the size/habitat of the vivarium
@@nordicants6232 yeah actually most of this ceature not i put in there.they are escape from their homeworld(but diacama i bought accidently from my village)consider it is in outdoor.actually they almost can coexist,the only problem is the overpopulate fire ant colony,lucky i have a black ant.and the climate change,actually this place already hot but now it is to hot for some creature for life.for the place it is not a "to big problem" I put all the vase in a 5×2,5meter place and the plant vase has 20×20×20cm big.and some has a big plant like a plant looks like a palm tree,and someflower.and the place still has an empty room filled with cemen but there is some soil still and under the cemen there is some tunnel that i dont know who is create it(mostly looks like create by termites and )so the only problem is just the overpopulating fire ant and the hot climate
You could use triops to make short work of those little critters in there
Great video, keep up the good work. look forward to the next one!
MYRMECODIA is a air root plant that Grows on Trees and its second name is AntHomePlant in hopes for an Ant collonie to move in and defend it in return for giving them a Home ! Awsome Plant!^^
You really had fun on the editing 😉
xD
Amazing work, thank you for all your videos !
Thank you!
Nice vid as always
Yea
I love this vivarium my friend
@@nordicants6232 my closed ecosphere is 9 months old now
You allways amaze me
"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?"
this is the coolest vivarium on youtube!
Thanks man! :D
Also the dubias would be prey to ants, the gecko, the tarantula (when it grows a little), and the centipede
Even the gecko? They are almost the same size xD!! That would require some jackie chan skills
@@nordicants6232 yeah, you'd be surprised. My friend had a gecko that ate a large burrowing roach nearly whole
@@observingeye9579 I believe it was introduced in an earlier episode
PrimalOpossum132 the grown gecko ”bernie” will be present in the next next video, and ”bernie” ;) has been featured in previous updates :D
Great video buddy! I would love to have such a diverse vivarium :-)
Ants Britania thanks man! Great to get feedback from you! :D
Hi Nordic Ants! I’ve been binging all of your videos and just wanted to answer your question about the odd cricket tunnels! They make the tunnels that way to serve as an amplifier for their “chirps”. It basically helps them communicate with each better
Oh damn had no idea! Thank you for watching them all :D makes me really happy
Thanks😀
AMAZING VIVARIUM!!!! I think those little water bugs are daphnia, seed shrimp, and aquatic worms, all of them only eat algae and rotting plant/animal matter.
This is for chilli 😂
This is a really cool video! I enjoyed how laid-back the presentation style was and saying the various inverts. This is a perfect diverse invert system. I think it's really cool but I also have some suggestions about amphibians people keep asking about. I don't know everything but I just want to bring up some things of concern. I would say that this might not be a good idea to have frogs and salamanders inside because there are a lot of predators that would eat young frogs and etc. But larger frogs could clean out the tank if there are enough of them. Frogs also could get sick from the fungus and such. The crab and spiders could catch the frogs which would be sad. But if you are just going with having species of all kinds (which is okay) then it's not a problem. I just wanted to mention some possible problems to be helpful not negative. It's still very cool and I enjoyed watching! I have crickets in my setup and enjoy watching them breed and evade the frogs in my setups. I love your snails and slugs! Why don't you get some large Millipedes? Also a Green Snake that eats insects would be interesting. You can introduce Black Soldier Flies offspring and ha e the flies transform in your setup. They will dig into the dirt and then just come up on their own! A hissing cockroach would also do good.
Aweeeeesome comment! Thanks for all the info and fyi there is already a frog inside ;) doing well i suppose for the time being and about the green snake! Wow id really love to have one :o
@@nordicants6232 what kind of frog is it? Whenever I'm able to upload about my animals more I think you would really enjoy seeing some of the videos. I have one enclosure with snails, large millipedes and a little tree frog and some lizards. In another setup I have large whites tree frogs living with a betta fish. For my largest enclosure I keep two native species of amphibian together which I have researched and studied. My channel is centered around the American Toad so that's one of the animals in the large enclosure however I'm not going to reveal the other just yet because I want to surprise the viewers on my channel. The only reason I bring up some of my setups is because they are ecosystems just like you have. I'm going to be releasing different insects after the builds get started. I have an update video coming out in the next couple of days I'll have to share it with you so you can see a little bit of what I'm talking about.
PA Woods Vivariums thats awesome! Be sure to dm(instagram) or comment a link when its published! Looking forward to it :D
Amazing cant wait for the next update
I love your videos, they inspire me do start an vivarium myself.
Awww that makes me glad! Thanks :D
Been awhile! The amazing vivarium master strikes again!!
Thanks man! Great to hear from you outside the chat ;)
Some ostracods have adapted to live among the forest floor in the water stored in damp leaf litter. Maybe they found there way into your vivarium that way and eventually made it to your water?
I'm quite sure that these water "beatles" are Ostracods. In German they are called "Muschelkrebs" (=mussel crab) because they have two shells on the sides of their bodies. Here is some nice info about them: www.biwahaku.jp/smith/facts.html They could be the species "Cypridopsis vidua" because of their coloration. Ostracods can lay eggs that can completely dry out so they maybe came into the vivarium via the substrate...
WOW
6:36 Those are mosquito larva "wigglers"
Great videos keep it up
Awesome
Izerman YK ikr!
Nice vid mate
dam, amazing vivarium
Nice video. Also I hope you have a king and a queen with the globitermes...
Me too! Their populations are stagnating... :(
Can be because they didn't get a queen and because they are higher termites they don't make secondaries. So if you didn't catch a queen and a king with them when you got them they'll mostl ikely die :(@@nordicants6232
Hope though that you manage to get them when you caught them@@nordicants6232
Its so cool. The pheidole will eat all! XD
Im so scared of their dominion tbh xD
Missed opportunity to crack a "korvfest" joke ;D
Awwww! Damn xD
very nice video i have waited so long for this cant wait the next update
Thank you!!
@@nordicants6232 thank you for replying i love your vids keep it up
Nice
I'm not exactly sure, but the animals in the pond might be daphnia and cyclops, and the worms might be detritus worms
Thanks will look it up :D
Ad mealworms and superworms! They turn into cool beetles
Ow! Great idea :D
Add some isopods
Love Me Please!!! Already in :D
@@nordicants6232 Yay! :3
Awesome video
Thanks man!
Those little worm like creatures are mosquitoe larva and the little Beatle things may be also mosquito larva pupae, I think
Hmmm, maybe! Thanks for watching :D
Jup for my eye thats what they are, if you dont want to have a ... Outbreak od the buzzing suckers, dry the pond or find some insect or animal to feed on them. Mosquitoe arent good at all,
Nice 👍 When I get a room update I might try and do this
Its awesome! :D
Nordic Ants looks awesome as well! Is it hard to care for?
Ps I love ur vivarium series
This video has much better audio then last video Edit:i know i am late sorry
Amazing
Amazing vivarium. I recently got a new halloween crab!! 🦀 🦀
I'm scared af by tarantula but I love the scorpion. Nice video bro!
Thank you!!
I like all of your video thier so cooooool
nice video
Great video like always my dude! What country are most of the animals in this vivarium from?
Nacho Friend all Thailand! Thank you SM :D
Wow so fantastic of a habitants of the ecosystem on the vivarium its a amazing variety of ants ando oters bugs and plants 😀😁😂👍👌✌👏🐸🌸🐌🦀🐛🐜🐝🐞🕷🌻🌱🍁🌿🕸
Thank you!!!
yes an update :)
You post the video yay
Great video! What spp. Of queen is that one at 0:24, bothroponera?
Spider ant queen! Pachycondyla sp :D
@@nordicants6232 oooh, looks like it can give you a bad day if you get stung. Looks almost the same as the bothroponera found in south Africa
So cool 😍
Maxi_Pop ikr!!!
Cool
Antcanada get in here and learn something from this men
Hahahhaa i want him to do this as well!! :D
Dude stop hating on people
@@thegreatjay1245 let people have their own opinions
Are you thinking of adding a mate for the crab, lizard, gecko, vinegaroon and tarantula? seeing them have families and reproduce would be amazing. I hope we can see the frog in the next update too. btw hope ur exams went well!
The issue is how to balance the biosphere with them
Nero Dino yeah that's true too... A bigger paludarium will be needed for that... if i will be rich enough and get all the ingredients in the future I'm planning to make a gigantic paludarium, as big as possible. Maybe when I achieve my totally impossible dream in the future i will dl it myself.
Oleg the frog will be in the next update for sure!! And yeah as Said the system balance may fail then... although an extra vinegaroon should be alright :D
Just use the infinity gaulent It is worked
I Like ur Videos :)
god i love this
I love you guys
Once that tarantula matures it could easily take down an adult roach.
So true!!
Paradise or hell, that's the question. Depends on which creature you are. Interesting in any case. Thanx! Keep it up. So, how do the fishes come into dried out desert lakes after a heavy rainfall? Life is everywhere. Wow.
I love your vivaruims so much keep up the good work Nordic (first to comment and like the video) Also like if the spider is cute
Thank you sm! Have a fANTastic day :-)
Pls add an iridomyrmex carins or colobopsis sp. in the vivarium, and the small worms in the pond are mosquito babies.
Will try! Colobsis is cool :D yeah i suspected that as well
The crickets will eat your tarantula when it molts. If you don't want it to die you should put it into a new enclosure, otherwise unless the crickets are all eaten, removed or otherwise killed they will kill and eat it. They could also potentially kill your crab and roaches as they molt, although if the crab stays below the water table it is probably safe
How do tarantulas survive in nature if simple crickets eat them when they molt¿ its far more dangerous there
@@nordicants6232 Haha I never thought about that! I guess the tarantula has more space to live in by itself in nature?
Add jumping spiders.
Already in!
The crab will eventually eat everything.
Oh no! I can assure you he is a nice crab
The worms are maybe Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri.
I believe that the new creatures are the early stages of mosquitoes, and the worm looking ones are just in an even earlier stage