The Ultimate Guide to Raising an Ant Queen & Founding Colony
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- The Ultimate Guide to Raising an Ant Queen & Founding Colony
Time Stamps -
01:24 Checking Schedule
03:34 Disclaimer
03:58 Diet
08:15 Summary
Research Gate Paper -
Paper One - The role of protein & Carbohydrate ratio's
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Paper Two - Ant workers die young and colonies collapse when fed a high-protein diet
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I'm just getting into it and this video helped massively, keep up the good work
Thanks bud I'm glad your enjoying the content welcome to the hobby!
Nice tip about the protien mate, I had no idea 👍👍
Im certainly on a campaign to raise awareness with the protein now, i had no idea it could have such a lethal impact, i knew it was unhealthy for a colony to have too much protein but i never realised its impact could cause a complete colony wipe out.
Absolutely Brilliant! :D
Awesome information. Keep up the great work.
Thanks bud 😁
Great video and really good information 👍🏻😃🐜🇬🇧
glad you like the info bud, i think the advice regarding the protein is very uncommon knowledge, yet it has been highly researched within the scientific community, hopefully this video raises awareness
@@AntsTheColonialist yeah I don’t think I’ve heard anyone else cover the information about protein so this is super useful especially to newer keepers searching all the information they can. 👍🏻😃🐜🇬🇧
Awesome video, only just found out about your channel and I'm not disappointed
Thanks! I'm glad your enjoying the content 😁
Great vid!
Great knowledge in this video brother. Especially for someone like me who’s currently having to learn as much as possible! 😃🐜
Im glad its useful info bud you should certainly check out the research gate papers in the description very good reads!
@@AntsTheColonialist I will do man! Thanks for the information bud 😃
Nice video, very helpful
Thank you, glad you have found it helpful 😊
Nice video please make more tutorials videos
Thanks bud, i will continue to make tutorials 👍🏻
I also did not know about too much proteine being bad for founding colonies, so this might be considered a secret! I have seen many, many videos :) I am still not sure what the correct amount would be but I guess doing less than you are comfortable with makes sense as long as water and sugars are provided all the tine. I did have weird die-offs so that might be related to this. I will read those papers, thanks!
Another great video, a very informative tutorial and some really nice footage, keep em up!!!
Thanks bud, sadly most of the footage i have is old re-used footage 🙈,
I wanted to film footage specifically for the episode but i can't film until next week monday when I'm back home, and i didn't want to wait that long, so difficult to schedule everything in chaos lol
@@AntsTheColonialist that's alright it was still a really good vid 😉
@@MyLivingWorldsAnts thanks bud much appreciate im just watching your hibernation vid now that ive finished editing and locked down at work i can chill for a bit 😆
never heard of protein poison before, haven't had it happen here either, so I guess thats good
Great video buddy and like you i never thought too much protein would be an issue!
I was just about to comment on your video, exactly that as a possibility with your colony, how much larvae do they have? Is the brood in egg stage? They could be crashing because they have too much protein at the moment, those workers dieing possibly protein toxicity?
Love the video, great advice. Especially from an experienced ant keeper like yourself!
Thanks bud, i will keep learning and sharing what i discover hopefully it just helps people enjoy the hobby better 😁
Awesome 👍
Another great video. Amazing research into the effects of protein. Now you say it it makes complete sense. I always try to give a nice balance, I always knew it was possible to poison workers if they don't use the protein but I never considered it may wipe out a Colony
Thanks bud, Same i didn't actually realise a high protein diet could be fatal to the entire colony, which is more prevalent in founding colonies, i suppose larger colonies are able to spread out the consumption due to the amount of workers, making it less of a likely outcome for the workers to die from protein toxicity, coupled with often having a large amount of larvae to feed, they can offload that protein faster.
@@AntsTheColonialist yea it makes complete sense really. Founding stage is a fragile time for every Colony. These hints are so helpful and worth knowing you may of just saved millions of potential ant life's
Very good info and great filming. What type of camera and lens are you using
Ah yes notifications one again :D
I'm trying to make up for the 1 month gap 😆
Great video with a lot of information , I think I made the protein mistake . I alwas feed them a lot of fruit flys or 1 cricket and sugar and come back every 4 days to re feed them thinking there hungry , going to start fresh today and feed them then wait 14 days and my trap jaw i feed her every 7 days , I been giving her protein every 4 days and she grown in numbers but this is a great video , learn from this , probably why I lost my aphaenogaster colony
Hey bud sorry for some reason youtube hides some comments from me! Glad you enjoyed the content bud, the 14 days is for a founding queen prior to first nanitics, then once she has workers, then you can hook up an outworld and feed as normal just size up the protein to larval amount, sadly i know i lost a couple of colonies to over feeding protein over the founding stage, its easy to do.
@@AntsTheColonialist yeah 2 month ago I wrote this but in away it good so I can tell you I been doing this and all my colony are founding stage so once a week to 14 days works great for me I even got my invicta fire ants on a diet once a week I give them protein since there growing in number even with the diet , I make a video of them soon and I lost that queen we talk about RHYTIDOPONERA aspera I’m so disappointed because she was expensive 😂 and she look so cool , but I hope to try again if I can get another queen maybe one with some workers or larvae atless and try the set up we talk about
I was just flicking back through and saw the comment, I've noticed on my other videos, comments that did not show up before, i just spoke to another content creator he said it does it for him as well, I'm glad the rotations are working, they give me the best results as well,
@@AntsTheColonialist yeah work very well . Question RHYTIDOPONERA aspera queen when do they fly in Australia ? I’m looking to getting another one
@@JQEm1 i believe they are the same as Metallica, they have sporadic nuptials and send males off to new nests as they have Queens & Gamergates, this happens randomly throughout the year, my Metallica are currently having a nuptial
Hi ,would you recomend not giving them access to sugar water 24/7?
Ants actually need to fast for a couple of days after feeding, their stomach design means they process foods over 4 days then need 2-3 days fasting, you will notice if you have sugar available all the time the colony slows down, you don't get a great feeding response, workers stop their foraging activities, i feed mine weekly and leave the sugar solution in for a 24/48 hours, in this time the colony will always consume enough to feed the colony. Only fresh water should be provided 24/7
@@AntsTheColonialist Thanks I will start doing this.
i just revived my carpenter ant queen like the thumbnail sayd and she isnt moving pls help
🤔 I don't know if this is humour or you genuinely just gave CPR to an Ant Queen 😳
@@AntsTheColonialist sarcasm lmao also why do you have that revive thingy in ur thumbnails?
@@wasd6090 haha all good 😂😂 for that exact reason, people wonder why its there 😂😂😂😂👌🏻 it makes them look 🤷🏻♂️