"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.
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!
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.
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.
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 😚!
@@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?
@@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
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!
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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..
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 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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 :)
@@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.
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 best TH-cam 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!
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
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.
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.
Yo, if you're sick of sponsors there's a browser add on that skips them, it's called "SponserBlock" I have it on mine and it works, just wanted to inform you since you seem irritated by sponsors. Oh and if you're seeing ads, UBlock Origin is an adblock that works on youtube.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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! 🐜
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!
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
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.
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.
I’ve looked like every hour wondering what time zone a “Saturday video release” gets dropped on TH-cam, 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 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.
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.
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
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.)
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 😅
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!"
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 😅
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.
So cool how you can actually see the spider thinking things out, the narration helps. I love this series, particularly the last 4 episodes have been so good.
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?
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
"Should we add more pitchers?" Oh heck yes, I'd love to see more varieties of carnivorous plants along side the pitchers too, I absolutely ADORE carnivorous plants and content on them. I also really hope that the trap-jaw colony survived, I've been really worried about them since it became appar*ant* than the dark hoard was going to become a problem in the vivarium. Please keep up the good work AC, Ant love
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
The last monologue on the cycle of pandora is so important to the education on this topic, delivered with a genuine candor, seriously that last clip should be everywhere!
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.
14:15 for guppy control, use bettas, they love to eat baby guppies 😁 i have a betta sorority with my guppies, and before i added the bettas i had waaaay too many guppies on my hands, now they stay at a manageable number if you don’t want to use bettas, angel fish would also be an excellent choice
Catching up on this series after having been away for a few years I see lots of people commenting on how much the tanks have changed and meanwhile I'm just amazed at how buff he has gotten.
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Guys/AC Family, you all helped me do this! Thank you! 😭🙏🐜❤️🌿 Things are about to get even more epic next week! Ant love forever!
Forever buddy❤❤❤❤
We will forever support you Ant Love Forever ❤❤❤❤
Great video! lets hope that these plants and the ants can coexist peacefully, like our once glorious fire nation had.
Can't wait for the next episode, and don't worry take all the time you need on the episodes
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I didn't realize how small the pitcher plant was until the full sized cricket came up and looked like a giant.
Insane, i bet it will grow well.
From what i know albo will eat more crazy ants and bical could provide a home for the carpenter ants
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They get much bigger, those plants are practically babies. Some pitcher plants are large enough to even catch rodents!
@@erinurbanus1858new rat trap (100% natural)
"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"
Yezir exactly
100% agree! :D
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?
(The end of Game of Thrones sucked and House of Dragon is kinda boring) ANTSCANADA FOREVER!!!!!!!!
House of Dragon is boring. Trying too hard yet still failing to be on equal footing with its predecessor.
Please never stop this series. It’s better than 90% of things on discover channel these days.
I expect to check in on this series in a few years and discover the ants are developing nukes and drafting laws
for sure!!! 100%
It’s better then all them
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.
Its the best series
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!
It's probably not bad for a home aquarium, but now that he's established a use for it, it would be a business purchase at this point...
Get them really cheap....do something called a ferret that you plug straight into your phone....can poke around and see all sorts
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Vevor is Chinesium and serves a lot of industries but they make decent stuff... I think i got grow lights from them
That full-grown cricket appearing at the pitcher plant really felt like a giant monster appearing in a movie, the scale of these insects is crazy
IT REALLY DID!!!!
I know right! it scared me really I hope I dont get insect horror dreams tonight
i thought the same thing!
FR!!!
Yeah
Shoutout to the brave jumping spider to challenge the dark horde! Main character move right there.
oh absolutely! It felt like watching a spy/heist movie like mission impossible
I was so proud of the little guy. I love jumping spiders!
@@dm_katy2263really cool it’s the “spy” in spider
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 will. Thank you for being part of Pantdora's journey. Glad you enjoy it! Ant love forever! ❤️🐜🙏🌿
Try adding a betta fish to control the guppy population, they're known to attack them.
reality is not more strange than fiction you just watch too much fiction and too little about reality/our planet, bruh...
@@Matost1dumb people watch AntsCanada too!? Never knew
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.
Rocksteady and his cricket friend is the best thing I've seen in a while...
They be chill like that
I agree! Miss seeing the Pseudoglomeris Magnifica though if they're still around
Name the cricket Bebop
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!
I agree. Bladderworts would be perfect and look great as well.
or even butterwort which have beautiful flowers and eat small aphids or flies. They also don't need a lot of direct light
And a carnivorous orchid would be a great addition to blackwater bay
@@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.
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.
The sundew would be beautiful and amazing to see eat flying things your 100% right on this plant
I was hoping for Sundews!
I really want to see Venus fly traps in there just cuz why not. Those things are cool.
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 😚!
How the hell did they figure that out?
Absolutely INSANE how big the adult cricket is compared to the babies when you see them in contrast to the pitcher plants. Really cool shots!
I used to follow cricket farming channels, and am used to this. They call newly born cricket nymphs "pinheads" for a reason.
Yes, it's insane how big they grow, and these babies are actually twice the size of newborn crickets!
Terrified me seeing that huge cricket come up
@@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?
I'm 52 years old and every sunday i sit on my couch with a cup of coffee and geek out on AntsCanada's Channel! Love it!
@@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
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!
Yeah
AC should get some
Oh I didn’t know that, that would be cool to see, hopefully the next addition
Out of curiosity, does this extend the life of each pitcher since it doesn't fill up?
The frog is immune? I thought these things could eat small rodents and reptiles.
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
Keeping a sculpin in a freshwater tank :/
@@Thewildlifeenthusiast123 u do know there are freshwater sculpin species right?
@@angryboi801 no
@@Thewildlifeenthusiast123Oh, ya. We called them bullheads when I was a kid. Calapooya & other Willamette valley streams
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.
Truth
that makes total sense. Thanks foe the additional info❤
Sacrifice without sacrifice to the horde... that's smart. Dammit.
That indeed seems logical
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.
*the hood blocks out the hate from diluting this culture
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
God I love pitcher plants. We used to use them for carpenter ants.
Not as cool as a Venus fly catcher, but way more effective of a killer!
What are you talking about?
The ants used them as grave sites for their dead. Did you watch that one?
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.
Where are the fire ants
i love binging these videos but holy moly theyve gotten completely insane youre the coolest ever canada ant person
rip Philbert. dumb stinker fell in the pitcher plant looking for candy
Berb
No way waddup berd
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Sup berd.
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
And he does everything himself..
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Why does he say he will upload every Saturday but instead does it on Monday or sunday? Thats being dishonest
Bro just leave it be you like the videos don’t you?
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@@bigboi9877dont care tho as long as he keeps posting the video 💁🏻♂️
I really hope the Trapjaw queen survived. I was looking forward to seeing a new colony arrive on the scene.
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
Jumping spiders are seriously the coolest spiders imo. Extremely fascinating to watch.
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..
@@Soundofwindonsand some you should
wrong, jumping spiders are rarely cold, in fact their body heat is over 9000 Fahrenheit
@@PuppetMasterdaath144who u replying to
I went to a rodeo, but on the railing in front of me a jumping spider was chasing down ants, and I don't think I saw a single event.
The Jumping Spider: "Oh would you look at that, Dinner and a show"
This man really yoinked an entire ant colony with his bare hands
Desperate times call for desperate measures! And this is the same guy who willingly put his hand into a fire ant colony. XD
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.
You remind me of that instagram guy who would yoink creatures in jungle
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.
When the mama cricket came in at 20:15 it was like a kaju movie
kaiju
“Look at these cute little baby fishies !!”
“Now choose what you would like to watch eat them”
A giant water bug would be a nice predator for the waters
baracuda 🤫🧏♂️
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
Some form of dwarf snapping turtle would be cool.
CAAATFISHHH 2 for 1 special Or maybe that fish that spits water :) haha Or some Kinda Water Diving Spider
You should name the cricket, Bebop.
He always hangs out with Rocksteady!
No
cute I love it❤
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.
AntsCanada is located in the Philippines, tropical country.
I'm thinking a sundew could be fun...
lol what isn't it located in Canada?@@catherineta
@@oOJopapaOo He's from Canada, but now in Philippines
@@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un IT'S YOU!! I remember you, you commented a lot two years ago on the carpenter ant series
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!
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
But they are guppies, I've had them breeding in any enviroment.
Guppies reproduce like rabbits lol
Guppies usually would breed just the store tanks and give birth during transit too . Mollys would’ve worked too but the guppies have better coloring
Guppies will breed even if you put them in a dirty mud puddle. They can survive anything. LOL
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.
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.
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.
Lady Deathstrike as the post credits looming threat always gets me.
Yessir cant wait! Shes the star of the show for me
Chills
The edging is killing me.. I'M SO HYYYYPED 😭🙌🏾💕
Why does all his thumbnails look like he's making sacrifices to the vivarium
And being super jacked on top of that, dude looks like some Muay Thai fighter praying to buddha
@@caesar5588had to compensate for the fact that he’s 4’9
They are so cringey lmao 💀🎉
@@T0b3TVhating is cheap
His name is mikey bustos. Same guy that sang "i wear speedos" around the time despacito got popular @@caesar5588
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
I think there are also plans for a livestream!
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.
Wow! I have to agree here, crayfish would be perfect for the guppy issue!
Knowing nothing about their impact on the things around them, if nothing else, crayfish would certainly be fun to watch.
The falling sound is just perfect.
I never thought I would be rooting for spider, but here we are. Good job jumping spider!
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.
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.
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.
THIS IS PLANTDORA! *kicks ant into picher*
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.
@@MarkThomas-yy4dk😂😂😂😂😂
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@@MarkThomas-yy4dkit'll be a complete chaos
So you watched the video liked the rest of us. Your get a trophy
I started watching the series from my TV rather than my phone. Game changer
Yes, I shoot in UHD 4K, so watching on a TV really makes a difference for the details. Thanks for watching! Ant love forever!
I can’t even watch it on my phone! It doesn’t even do the video it’s justice!
Agreed. My monitor is an 85" 4K TV. I will never go back to a regular monitor.
Oooh i'm gonna need to try this❤
why would you watch it on a phone?
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!
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.
Thank you for being part of Pantdora's journey. Glad you enjoy it and your kind feedback is appreciated! Ant love forever! ❤️🐜🙏🌿
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 :)
No! A great white shark! Because they are great.
What about giant squids
I think a Trex would be a excellent addition
Possible a sperm whale? Might be to big of a tank for one
small aquatic monkeys?
This is the type of show i expect when watching nature channels
The personal vibe makes it so much easier and fun to watch than any nat geo film.
@@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.
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 best TH-cam 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!
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Yeah😊
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.
Thanks for watching!👍
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
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.
I just found this channel a few days ago, and now I've been awake for three days straight because I can't stop watching.
I’ve reached this point in two I absolutely love it so interesting and informative learn so much every wpisode
Love the slide whistle when something falls
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.
Yo, if you're sick of sponsors there's a browser add on that skips them, it's called "SponserBlock" I have it on mine and it works, just wanted to inform you since you seem irritated by sponsors.
Oh and if you're seeing ads, UBlock Origin is an adblock that works on youtube.
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.
15:33 "its related to the asparagus *WE* human eat!"
This is AC trying to convince us he's not a metamorphised cockroach
We need some merch that reads "Little did I know... "
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Ang graphics of the animals on it 🙌😁
And on the back: which left my jaw on the floor...
meme text Little did I know... and ant with several question marks
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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
yeah and it is so fun
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.
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.❤❤❤
yah he only has like 7 colonies of ants in the cage at once lol he better add more of them plants
Carnivorous plant just after a meal: Ok, time to relax and digest this great meal.
Dude with an endoscopic camera: OPEN WIDE!
Lol thats funny
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@@erickblackkwell4587 cheers.
@@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.
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!
I'm not sure that you are wrong! I could full on see him making that video
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.
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! 🐜
Wow thanks for the info didn’t. Know that
@@alaynahoskins3299 thanks for the info didn’t know that
Crazy ants: YOU WILL DEFEND STALINGRAD IF IT COSTS US A HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN< NO A MILLION MEN!!!!
I'm so glad I stumbled onto this channel again! I used to watch it years ago, now I'm obsessed with this vivarium series. Keep up the good work man!
Welcome back! Ant love forever! ❤️🐜🌿
The music playing while the ants were falling into the pitchers just sold this! This vivarium is just too cool!
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!
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
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.
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.
20:30 makes the Cricket look HUGE
I’ve looked like every hour wondering what time zone a “Saturday video release” gets dropped on TH-cam, glad I was awake when it dropped. It’s my favourite so far.
Craig
Montréal Quebec 🇨🇦
Sorry for being late... AGAIN! So much happened this week! Ant love forever! ❤️🐜🌿
@@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!!!
Yes agree th8s is like your best series ever ive waited like ever week for the update on pantdora
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.
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.
Congo tetras will also breed out of control needing another predator. Maybe a turtle will work
Pair of rams of apistos 👌👌
dwarf frogs :o
Angelfish would be great too, so would gourami
as someone whos turtle absolutely annihilates 50+ goldfish in like 10 mins i dunno @@fathercrim
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
Thank you so much🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
I wasn't a fan of the plant idea at first, but they're so good to help the population of those pesky black crazy ants. Definitely add some more.
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.)
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 😅
Every episode just makes me want to cry tears of joy.
This truly makes me have a better understanding of how beautiful life can really be.
Happy to see that the plants are getting some more time in the spotlight
Plant love forever! ❤️🙏🌿🐜
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!"
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 😅
@@weaksause6878not as bad as a ground colony they would think your high looking at grass😂😂
@@weaksause6878 I dont know why but it never gets boring!
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.
Thank you for being part of Pantdora's journey. Glad you enjoy the seriea! Ant love forever! ❤️🐜🙏🌿
So cool how you can actually see the spider thinking things out, the narration helps. I love this series, particularly the last 4 episodes have been so good.
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?
This is so freaking good that you can just make a TV show out of it
David Attenborough has entered the chat.
(Not a diss on AC's voiceovers, of course)
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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
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Like Meercat Manor. How do you sell it to a network?
No1 should be allowed to keep exotic animals if the setup doesnt look like that!
Great job, I also love your carnivorous plants!
I like how he was just like “yoink”. Also I love Stanley, can’t wait until the female comes.
"Should we add more pitchers?" Oh heck yes, I'd love to see more varieties of carnivorous plants along side the pitchers too, I absolutely ADORE carnivorous plants and content on them. I also really hope that the trap-jaw colony survived, I've been really worried about them since it became appar*ant* than the dark hoard was going to become a problem in the vivarium. Please keep up the good work AC, Ant love
Indeed, a few Venus Flytraps wouldn't hurt(well, technically it does, but you know what I mean).
I agree 100 percent
@@RipOffProductionsLLCI agree 100 percent
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
You should really go outside you’re missing out on so much
@@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
The last monologue on the cycle of pandora is so important to the education on this topic, delivered with a genuine candor, seriously that last clip should be everywhere!
Thanks for watching!
25:05 I immediately new he was gonna snatch up the plant before he even mentioned his plan 🤣🤣🤣
*knew
@@Hungary_0987heres a gold star ⭐️
This is the first thought all the gen-x's likely had.
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Oh look... They're really mad now. 😂
Well, he really went in for that
my guy did it like he was the florida everglades man
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.
Digging the “Plants Canada” vibes with this one
14:15 for guppy control, use bettas, they love to eat baby guppies 😁
i have a betta sorority with my guppies, and before i added the bettas i had waaaay too many guppies on my hands, now they stay at a manageable number
if you don’t want to use bettas, angel fish would also be an excellent choice
Female bettas would be by far the best in this case
Im telling you if i had the chance to see the vivarium face-to-face i would spend an unholy amount of hours just staring and watching.
It’s hilarious how the black crazy ants are the villains of this series 😂
I thought they were the stars.
@@bowiedoctor9156 they're both, but perhaps no longer
until the invasive fire ants emerge and take that role.
@@NeilsonBuntowaUntil the fire nation attacked
its gonna be whichever ants become the largest in number because he has way too many in there
Catching up on this series after having been away for a few years I see lots of people commenting on how much the tanks have changed and meanwhile I'm just amazed at how buff he has gotten.
same here, i dont remember much besides knowing i watched him when i was wayyyyyyy younger, but he got extremely buff in that time lol
same here i've stopped watching him for three years and then i've watched him again and they are so fun to watch
and THIS is why I love plants. such versatile organisms.