Ant Room Tour - 2021

[@antsandmoreaustralia]

4:53 how funny this happened to me too my grandma was going to buy me one for my birthday but on my birthday afternoon I found one

[@TheAntKeeper]

Ahh that's so cool! That's awesome!

[@RepvertYT]

Yeaaaahhhh Lets goooo

[@TheAntKeeper]

AYYYEE!

[@antlad6054]

Love your green head ants they look so good!

[@TheAntKeeper]

They're colours are crazy right! Metallic Green has never looked so good

[@JustB159]

Why do I see people using aluminum foil to wrap their test tube? What does it do?

[@antlad6054]

@@JustB159 just to protect the ants from light and it's a easy cover more stable

[@Trellemania]

I loved this video! Great set of colonies congrats!

[@TheAntKeeper]

Thank you so much Trellemania! It means so much

[@Emil-fn9bn]

I love the banded suger ant colony!

[@TheAntKeeper]

They are super cool and unique! I love them too

[@Emil-fn9bn]

@@TheAntKeeper Yeah i wish they werent that expensive :( :)

[@TheAntKeeper]

@@Emil-fn9bn I know Right!

[@antsandpets]

Very cool, I really like how you had something to say about each colony or queen instead of just saying "this a (insert species name) colony" and just leaving it at that

[@TheAntKeeper]

Thanks Ants and pets! I feel like every queen and colony has a story to be told. I really glad you enjoyed that aspect of the video. Thank you for your feedback!

[@lukas-by5ww]

i think the ant you refer to as Crematogaster is a Melophorus

[@TheAntKeeper]

Hi, You could be right! I had to get help to get the ID with that queen - I couldn't figure out what she was. Thanks for the tip! I'll look into it :D

[@yuichirohyakuya4071]

You might need to give the green head ant queens some sand as the brood normally spin cocoons

[@TheAntKeeper]

Excellent tip, I overlooked that. Thank you graham!

[@antsofsa3839]

8:44 I'm pretty sure that's camponotus lownei not humilior. 9:18 that is camponotus cf humilior I'm pretty sure, I have the same colony of those guys.

[@denhambad]

The crematogaster is melophorus

[@TheAntKeeper]

Thanks AntsUK!

[@greekants8328]

Yeah exactly

[@antsandmoreaustralia]

Congrats your bull ant has a worker mine only has medium larvae

[@TheAntKeeper]

Thank You! What sp do you have?

[@ChaddTaylorVlogs1234]

Meat ant and funnel ant are my favorite. Fortunately we don't have funnel ants in my area.

[@TheAntKeeper]

They both are pretty neat species!

[@johnhaymaker5825]

Glad I found your channel!

[@TheAntKeeper]

That's Awesome John! Thank You!

[@johnhaymaker5825]

@@TheAntKeeper I am also really glad I found you because Australia has the most amazing ant species and living in the states, i will never own them. You already have 2 of my favorites, the bull and meat ants.

[@TheAntKeeper]

@@johnhaymaker5825 Your rights, I am extremely fortunate to have access to some many amazing sp. What other Australian Ants do you like? When they come available I might get them ;)

[@johnhaymaker5825]

@@TheAntKeeper You have the bull and meat ants. If their is a native weaver ant species, that would be cool. But any native Australian ants are great to see. Edit: any lead cutter colony would be cool too.

[@TheAntKeeper]

@@johnhaymaker5825 Good to know! Thanks John!

[@Ant392]

Wow

[@TheAntKeeper]

Cool Hey!

[@CreepyPets_]

👍

[@luke4889]

I keep a species similar to the green head ants, here in South Africa. Nice collection and vid 👌

[@TheAntKeeper]

Thanks So Much Luke!

[@eeareal]

6:13 i think thats melophorus though i cant see the petiole well

[@TheAntKeeper]

Hey eea! Yes there was a error with the ID of an ant, I personally had to get someone else to try and ID it, sometimes even they get its wrong :D

[@eeareal]

@@TheAntKeeper well cant wait to see the progress on this queen ive never really seen one keep a melophorus before

[@kellyfay6370]

Omg I wish I lived in your country! I want to be part of the giveaway!

[@TheAntKeeper]

I think your going my next video then ;)

[@kellyfay6370]

@@TheAntKeeper oh yeah what do you mean? I am from the USA

[@TheAntKeeper]

@@kellyfay6370 Doesn't matter where you are..New video out in less than 48 hours

[@cavalierhunter5605]

I have a feeling i picked up a polyrachis Australis wingless yesterday. I’m not sure if it was but I’m imagining picking up a completely new queen and letting it go 💀. I still only got 7 iridomyrmex queens (which I hope can all become friends / polygonous) but I think it’d be cool to have just one other species like pheidole yesterday, I picked up one of my backyard tiles and there was pheidole brood, queens, males, alates, wasn’t able to catch one but now I know exactly what each type of pheidole ant looks like.

[@TheAntKeeper]

That's Amazing! Your on Fire!

[@2ndchanceinlife]

My favourite is the green metallica. Same as you, when i was a kid, I loved watching them shimmer green in the sunlight. I picked one up, and I had a nasty sting to my thumb. Still its a beautiful ant. I was lucky to find one queen with wings at a park, placed it in a testube. It had about 2 eggs, but I didnt feed it well, and I let it go after 3 weeks. Now I regret it. Im on the look out for another, and this time, I will look after it properly if I am able to find one. At the same time, I have picked up at queen that looks like a Nylanderia sp. I thought it was a Iridomyrmex Bicknelli. However she has about 14 workers I think. Cant wait to catch more queen ants. You're lucky, you have so many types of queens !

[@TheAntKeeper]

What are the chances both of us have the same favourite sp! I am lucky & have got a couple more queens since this video ;)

[@sawmajbj]

3d 😁😁😁😁

[@dukeofkeredon3109]

Few days ago I saw a wild colony of black crazy ants moving their colony and I rushed back to my home to grab a testtube and managed to catch a queen and two workers. I expected more Queens to appear but they got disturbed by me and stopped their moving. Also the queen had laid many eggs I can't wait to see her workers 🐜🐜💗 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIm2oKF9YtOLiqM 👈

[@TheAntKeeper]

Wow that's so lucky! Nice job Nikki

[@dukeofkeredon3109]

@@TheAntKeeper I just caught some more workers from the same wild colony gonna introduce it to the queen I caught cause she only has two workers I'll be uploading an video after adding more workers kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX_Yd2lpedmbd6c 👈 to her colony 😀 👍 thanks for being nice, Love your videos ☺️

[@johnfogle2092]

Sorry i was not here for this i forgot my password to my chromebook

[@TheAntKeeper]

Better late then never! Good to see you again :)

[@phantrom]

There was a massive nuptial flight going on outside and I caught 4 queens cause I ran out of tubes. 3 are iridomyrmex and 1 other also looked like iridomyrmex with a golden patch on its back and a gold tinted legs do you have any clue what species it is or is it just damaged

[@TheAntKeeper]

That's the dream right there! I'm glad you were prepared. Send me a picture on Instagram @The_AntKeeper and I'll try and ID it for you

[@hopeXD7783]

i want a queen :(

[@tinyants1559]

Hey the ant keeper,do you have a discord sever or a facebook acc for us to follow?

[@TheAntKeeper]

I don't...yet. I'm thinking about starting one soon.

[@tinyants1559]

@@TheAntKeeper nice

[@wardy940]

Do you sell these or are you keeping all these queens?

[@TheAntKeeper]

I keep them all to myself!

[@wardy940]

@@TheAntKeeper Wow. You're going to have a lot of colonies to care for. I couldn't imagine the dedication it takes to make sure they all stay put as well. Hope your house is big enough lol.

[@TheAntKeeper]

@@wardy940 Haha! I have even more now! You should check out my 50 Queens & Colonies video!