This is a remake of the tropical vivarium documentary. Sorry if you recently watched my first tropical vivarium documentary. This is a revised and simply better made version of it!! My Christmas present for anybody interested. Happy holidays!
Luckily I read this comment before watching the video otherwise I would have watched the entire series 2 times in a row. Happy Boxing Day and happy holidays.
I'm not sure why the UA-cam algorithm thought I would want to see an hour long documentary about a vivarium at midnight, but it was right. I absolutely loved this and would love to put together something like this myself one day.
Having been an ant nerd for quite a few years, I've always been under the impression that rival colonies just mercilessly attack each other on sight, it's fascinating seeing so many colonies co-exist.
@@nordicants6232 had to dissmantle one bio active vivarium recently too that wasn't even a fourth of this size and it hurt my soul too, I can only imagine what you must have felt. I had raised these small critters from the egg D:
Words cannot express the absolute respect I hold for you for being able to make and maintain this work of art, a piece of nature within your very home that you are able to shape as you desire. Great job with all of this.
As i was watching this i just got an idea: Imagine if zoos or something had a place with just one giant vivarium where you get to see the tiny ecosystem within. We are really missing out on an interesting opportunity to teach people how stuff like this works while also providing great entertainment.
Zoos should not really exist in first place.. maybe the approach you think about would be somewhat more natural, but it would also not be ideal. Maybe for really small animals it could work though..
@@TheLastGameekaner I support the ones that do it to help breed endangered species and just generally keep them for multiple reasons and not just for profit
The "worm" at 20:20 looks a lot like a hover fly larva to me (Syrphidae). Definitely some dipteran larva. The tube actually is not at the "snout", but at the rear end. They breathe air through it.
How the heck do different species simply pop up out of nowhere? That's what I find so fascinating. Amazing video my friend, very informative, thankyou.
@@nordicants6232 Is there some sort of tunnel to the outside from your vivarium? If so do u have it situated on your porch in a garage, or next to a window. Just Curious as to how you have that setup.
When adding in botanicals, substrates and centerpieces or any extra features it provides the opportunity for unknown/unexpected travelers to integrate into a terrarium or paludarium.
@@nordicants6232 Somewhere in Asia, I suspect? Since that Bipalium shouldn't just "pop up," like that. Although there are some invasive pests outside of its natural habitat, in North America and Europe. To great detriment of the local ecosystem.
Man, do you realize that you are the ONLY channel in UA-cam showing such content? Its amazing, coz its my lifetime wish to make similar vivarium with huge biodiversity of insects and mainly spiders. When I was 14 I transformed a broken aquarium to a vivarium with variety of hunter spiders and it was amazing to observe how they hunt.
@@GenocideParadigm Yea, I know him as well. His terariums are also interesting, but Im mainly interested in one with spiders. So Nordic Ants project is closer to that and had great biodiversity.
So glad you posted again! We could wait years for it if needed, it's always worth it ! As a French person I felt that joke about Argentina lol I myself have a massive carpenter ant colony living in a 1m x 40cm Vivarium, along with various animals and your videos are a real source of inspiration for me. Keep it up :)
The mystery plant at 8:13 is Begonia 'Emerald Jewel' (hybrid) Begonia imperialis X pustulata. The Begonias are native to moist subtropical and tropical climates. Some species are commonly grown indoors as ornamental houseplants in cooler climates.
I love your videos and the vivarium! The only suggestion I have is that you should show more shots of the whole vivarium that way we get a sense of scale. The close-up shots are cool and all but I think more shots of the whole vivarium would help emphasize and show that everything is self-contained in this awesome little world you built. Only close-up shots just makes it feel like another nature documentary :-)
You did an unbelievable job sir my kids fell in love with every new ant colony that popped up and when the small pond started to come alive my son went into looking up snails and ants that can walk on water. Awesome job my man!
Thank you SO much for editing this together for us…it was a beautiful Solstice gift. I loved that hammerhead worm. As I watched the entire process of this vivarium, it set the bar for all others, and still stands as a testament to the indomitable will of life and diversity. I still love your temperate one every bit as much, and tracing the food chains of predator and prey. Both have been monumental projects, and I have been spellbound all the way. I wish you the best of health, joy, and success in the coming year. You are a ray of sunshine.🥂🖤🇨🇦
Hi Tamarra!!! Thank you so much for sticking with the channel :D hope you enjoy success too. Your comments are always beautifully written and is such a treat… enjoy a hopefully white Canada this holiday
@@nordicants6232 I am here for the long haul. However long it may be between posts…I will be here, you are worth waiting for. We had just enough snow here to be pretty. I’m glad my comments are enjoyed by you.🖤🇨🇦
I found myself missing the denizens of this vivarium lately. I lost my dear Husband, with whom I had celebrated 49 wonderful years of Marriage last December 13. He died April 13, and I am learning to live a completely different life from what we shared. It made me think about these amazing creatures suddenly having to find their way in an alien landscape, encountering new predators and different prey. I figure, if they could do it…so can I. However surreal this new life often seems, I am gradually adjusting, as they did. I just wanted to thank you for bringing comfort when I most needed it. You have been a bright spot in my life since I found you, and I often shared your uploads with him. I just had to view this retrospective journey again, with its highs and lows, Yet always bursting with life, sometimes fighting, but more often making truces to live peacefully together. I was sad for all the things I felt it still had to teach us, yet thankful for the many mysteries it DID grant us glimpses of along the way. Those termites still confound me, I never knew they could have such a varied diet. The hammerhead will always live in my fond memories, along with many more characters who displayed their beauty, and idiosyncrasies of behaviour. Thank you again…SO very much.🖤🇨🇦
The story of this Tropical vivarium is just, beautiful and it's been a wonderful journey seeing this world be shaped and life introduced into it, you made a wonderful vivarium and story Nodric ants! The drama was just perfect, and so was the story. happy holidays to everyone here
What an oddball of a suggestion for a video but my god it was the best thing UA-cam has ever randomly suggested lol.. This is the most interesting thing I've ever watched on UA-cam! Seriously dude, this is just pure awesomeness and I bet you enjoyed looking back at all the footage making this masterpiece 🤘
Suddenly this video popped up on my recommendations...I last watched your your video 4 years ago when you introduced the Silver ants into the vivarium...wow...how times flies. Merry Xmas, HNY, take care.
ive heard that if you see a hammerhead worm in the wild, in places that its invasive, that you should catch it and dissolve it immediately. theyre still pretty though. dont cut it or squash it, just dissolve it, or else itll multiply.
If you continue making these could you please show more often the whole or at least bigger parts of the vivarium? The close-ups are really interesting but you can't really imagine the whole ecosystem if you only show close-ups D: the first time you did that was at 6:16 and it was also the first time you could see the actual composition of the vivarium. A bit late if you ask me and shots like that could definitely occur more often and longer :O
Been watching your videos for years! I’m finally now in the planning process for my own tank. Thank you for all you did! Your vivarium will live on in the ways that it inspired other people to make vivarium‘s ❤
watching the dinosaur ant carry that poor living snail was hilarious. I think aroud 36:00 you can even see a snail incorporated into the entrance of their home which makes me wonder whether it was an empty shell or maybe a kidnapped life snail lmao
Thanks again for a new video! Love this kind of content, its so cool how complex the ecosystem really is. Very sad you had to end the tank, but very kind of you too release the animals even though they are so small. Not many people would have done that and it makes me really happy you did it this way ❤
5:40 I believe that your termites supplemented their wood eating with a bit of fungi consumption. Perhaps that’s a great way for the termites to introduce enzymes and whatnot that it takes to digest cellulose. I’m no entomologist, a bit of an amateur mycologist though.
Ants canada is also having a big vivarium and now added a canape... so i hope he dont have to dismantle it. Its 9 months old now and turned it in a serie. Perhaps doing a collab or exchange experiences... ❤
Great video! I've seen long before a documentary about salmon, and it said that salmon is the base of the biodiversity in the rivers where they swin. A lot of animals wait for them to arrive from the sea, for meal and for fertilization of the soil. Maybe that's the reason why it was prefered by almost all creatures.
This is possibly one of the greatest random videos I've ever watched. More strangely, now I want to have one of these😅. Great commentary, videography, and editing. Phenomenal video, thanks for sharing!
I was absolutely glued to this vid.. A totally *fascinating* vivarium and expertly nurtured. I almost shed a tear at the end.. like an old movie that didn't quite end the way we would have liked.. Look forward to seeing more from this channel 👍
Plus I have always been fascinated by ants, ever since I was a little girl. My sister and I would often lie on the grass observing them carrying food or debris to their nest, always in a long file. I have never ceased to be intrigued by their behaviour. So much discipline.. like the true soldiers they are! 🐜🐜❤👍
Bro this is literally the most entertaining video of ants and other insects I’ve ever seen in my life. Amazing video and job. Keep up the great work you got yourself a new subscriber my man!!!
I went on a month long road trip one time and asked a friend if he could take care of my fish while I was gone. I had a decent size tank with more than a few different kind of fish in there. Shortly after I left, the person meant to watch the tank would get themselves arrested and go to jail, unbeknownst to me. This was before cell phones, so he couldn't contact me to let me know. I end up being gone over a month. The fish tank became an every fish for itself deathmatch, with the losers being eaten by it's hungry opponent. When I came back I surprisingly found only one surviving fish left. It was eating one of its own kind. It was a kissing fish. It would seem that of all the fish, two kissing fish would end up being the fiercest killers, eventually having to turn on each other. There wasn't even really any pieces of the ten or more other fish in there. I bought more fish, but any fish I put in would get attacked by the now traumatized kisser fish that used to be so peaceful. Sometimes it would wait awhile and I would wake up to find it eating another fish that it killed. I eventually didn't get any more fish until the kisser passed away.
you remind me of old japanese custom/folktale : kodoku. put all variety of poisonous insect in a box,let them kill/eat each other,and the last surviving insect supposedly is the deadliest of all. crazy sh!t.
This is what the internet was made for. I love how YT has a breadth of content in all kinds of niches that TV would never have ventured into. Thank you.
you deserve 1 million subs for all the work and dedication you put into your videos and terrariums! I love how you caption what the creatures are saying/thinking! XD
Não sei o motivo de o UA-cam me recomendar esse vídeo mas, amei vê-lo. Obrigado por nos mostrar um pouco de como a natureza funciona e parabéns por todo o trabalho, você merece bilhões de inscritos.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hold on, what the heck happened? blinked away for a second then it was all "yeah all done now, maybe this other tank will do better", gripping viewing by the way
At the end when you said thanks for watching this hour long video, I was like whaaat, didnt realize how long i had been watching. Not sure how this popped up in my feed, but it kept my attention. Nice documentary.
Wonder if introducing duckweed into the pond might be a good idea, helping slow down evaporation and absorbing excess nutrients. With the leaves getting stuck on semi aquatic animals like amphibians as they travel between land and water, when they rub off on the ground, they dry up and become food for isopods and millipedes.
Well this was a weird random find on my suggested list, but it was so great to watch! I’m sorry you had to deconstruct it, this was really fascinating!
Fungi breakdown deposits of wood to make them more easily eaten and digested. Cultivating fungi in this way is essentially like making a large bakery or maybe even akin to a large underground organic mill.
Dang it really sucks you had to rip it up :( Awesome build though, it was such a pleasure getting to watch this tank grow and evolve!!! Excited to get to see more content from you as it is always fantastic!! Hopefully after my trip this semester Ill be able to start a similar vivarium but with creature and plants of the southwest!!
I appreciate the professionalism, and thank you for not speaking to the audience as if we're kindergarteners *cough cough* ants Canada or whatever the channel is
Throwing a comment how great this is to hopefully help you gain more views. Algorithm hopefully pushing great vids and creators of what this channel was originally for instead of just reaction videos or toxic political videos to divide us. Just a great video and couldn't imagine the time that goes into creating this vivarium and then recording and editing all on top. Keep it up!
Really nice ! I'd love a badly made paint-map in addition to the chapter section for this kind of video, just representating the big vivarium features and where the different species live. It's a bit hard to follow the colonies and their satellites when we're always zoomed in !
What a great story! The main thing I learnt from this is that you have to be extremely careful when adding new species to the vivarium. Several times you had species appear from other introductions and the unwanted addition of the Argentine ants threatened to destroy your whole "world"! Thanks for a really interesting documentary.
Exactly!! The eternal problem of invasive species with the addition of a restricted space for all animals to be in can be a nightmare. Thanks for the nice comment :D
These videos make me so jealous. New York has harsh laws about antkeeping, and the only "natural ants" I really find are generic black ants, with the occasional generic orange ant. Nothing cool like trapjaws, weavers, marauders, honeypots, fire, harvester, dracula, bullet, or any other ant species that would be thoroughly interesting to watch. It blocks me from getting into the hobby at all, since I live in the mountains and we are constantly at war to keep the generic ants out of our house already, no sense bringing more in without a good reason.
The wierd looking worm with the tube protruding from its snout in the pond is actually a Rat-tailed larvae. They turn into Botflies that help pollinate vegetation like bees. The reason they turned up your vivarium's water is because it was lacking oxygen.
Extremely good! I am not into ants, but this video was so interesting, funny in its extra comments and edcational. All thumbs up and definately worth a subscription.
Im sure you get asked this a lot but do you ever find escapees outside the vivarium? Would maybe be interesting to have a video explaining such occurrences in your natural storytelling manner :)
I've definitely dreamt of doing something like this as well, I was thinking of adding creatures from my native habitat to create an indoor representation of outside. Obviously I would avoid invasive species.
Brilliant yt content. Brilliant, period. The unknown plant, pointed out in chapter 1, looks like a watermelon begonia. When you introduce a "colony" of ants, as you say, what individuals are you introducing exactly? Do you include a queen, or workers or soldiers? Is any female ant able to transform into a queen? Love this stuff though, man. It's incredible. Do any of the subjects infest your living space, or do they all remain in the viv? I've built a bioactive vivarium for a crested gecko I plan to get in a couple of months, once the tank is well established. The microfauna I ordered failed, so I have to reseed it with springtails and isopods, but the substrate and leca false bottom I got from NEHERP is awesome. Looking forward to more content in the future!
I introduce a whole colony always with queens and brood and workers!! With olive oil barrier on the side of the tank and a net on top of the vivarium nothing really escapes. This vivarium was open air on my balcony though! So had it open for things to fly in. Most animals were just trying to get into the tank and not out
Now, to be fair, I haven't seen the European version, but I highly recommend putting Euscorpius in there if you haven't already! And if you ever end up back in Asia, then I also highly recommend Liocheles australasiae, they're a very small, parthenogenetic species of scorpion.
This was quite awesome! I used to watch things like this all my childhood, and even since having kids where we set up aquariums to watch for hours on end. Very well done! I really liked the chapters and narrating. Please do more. :) You should probably be looking into national geographic or some similar show where you get to get paid to do this.
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This is a remake of the tropical vivarium documentary. Sorry if you recently watched my first tropical vivarium documentary. This is a revised and simply better made version of it!! My Christmas present for anybody interested. Happy holidays!
Alway love your videos, happy holidays!
I am ALWAYS interested…thank you.🖤🇨🇦
Thanks for posting again =) I always look forward to your videos
Luckily I read this comment before watching the video otherwise I would have watched the entire series 2 times in a row. Happy Boxing Day and happy holidays.
thank for the great content
I'm not sure why the UA-cam algorithm thought I would want to see an hour long documentary about a vivarium at midnight, but it was right. I absolutely loved this and would love to put together something like this myself one day.
That makes me so happy to hear!! All the best man :D
@@nordicants6232 i will be here when you blow up and keep up the good work
Same here! I just wanted to watch a last video and now it is 01:11 in the night... But: time well spend!
Same same and same here!
Lol same😂
Wish there were more channels like yours, just capturing the simplicity of every day mirco dramas in mirco ecosystems.
Thank you :D
@Zynth eh hes alr, hes too dramatic for me and way to obviously pushes you to watch the whole thing to find out the "crazy, wacky" suprize at the end.
Try looking up "Ants Canada " on you tube he has 100s of videos like this🙌
@@zynth104 wicked channel to watch 👍👍
@@leegunnerz1830 nah im good his stuff is too dramatic.
Having been an ant nerd for quite a few years, I've always been under the impression that rival colonies just mercilessly attack each other on sight, it's fascinating seeing so many colonies co-exist.
I think in a smaller tank and without other enemies, they would fight until one was gone.
Same
So devastating that you had to disassemble your beautiful vivarium. Thank you for showing us around!
Yeah was horrible… but thank you so much for watching :D
C’est la vie
@@nordicants6232 had to dissmantle one bio active vivarium recently too that wasn't even a fourth of this size and it hurt my soul too, I can only imagine what you must have felt. I had raised these small critters from the egg D:
@cranederoc why you had to dismantle it?
Words cannot express the absolute respect I hold for you for being able to make and maintain this work of art, a piece of nature within your very home that you are able to shape as you desire. Great job with all of this.
Thank you so much :D means a lot
As i was watching this i just got an idea: Imagine if zoos or something had a place with just one giant vivarium where you get to see the tiny ecosystem within. We are really missing out on an interesting opportunity to teach people how stuff like this works while also providing great entertainment.
Ai have always thought the same!! Such a shame
@@nordicants6232 Well now we know what must be done
Zoos should not really exist in first place.. maybe the approach you think about would be somewhat more natural, but it would also not be ideal. Maybe for really small animals it could work though..
@@TheLastGameekaner I support the ones that do it to help breed endangered species and just generally keep them for multiple reasons and not just for profit
@@TheLastGameekaner No.
The "worm" at 20:20 looks a lot like a hover fly larva to me (Syrphidae). Definitely some dipteran larva. The tube actually is not at the "snout", but at the rear end. They breathe air through it.
How the heck do different species simply pop up out of nowhere? That's what I find so fascinating. Amazing video my friend, very informative, thankyou.
Live in the tropics! Its insane!! Thank you so much for watching :D
@@nordicants6232 How often do tiny (or large) bugs escape?
@@nordicants6232 Is there some sort of tunnel to the outside from your vivarium? If so do u have it situated on your porch in a garage, or next to a window. Just Curious as to how you have that setup.
When adding in botanicals, substrates and centerpieces or any extra features it provides the opportunity for unknown/unexpected travelers to integrate into a terrarium or paludarium.
@@nordicants6232 Somewhere in Asia, I suspect? Since that Bipalium shouldn't just "pop up," like that. Although there are some invasive pests outside of its natural habitat, in North America and Europe. To great detriment of the local ecosystem.
i love how at 34:25 you were about to say "whatever the ants could get their hands on" but then you hesitated
Hahaha they dont have any!!
Man, do you realize that you are the ONLY channel in UA-cam showing such content? Its amazing, coz its my lifetime wish to make similar vivarium with huge biodiversity of insects and mainly spiders. When I was 14 I transformed a broken aquarium to a vivarium with variety of hunter spiders and it was amazing to observe how they hunt.
Thank you so much for the support!! Thanks for enjoying :D
There are a few others but this one is definitely one of the best.
Check out AntsCanada. His isn't quite the same, but it's definitely up there.
@@GenocideParadigm Yea, I know him as well. His terariums are also interesting, but Im mainly interested in one with spiders. So Nordic Ants project is closer to that and had great biodiversity.
Serpa Designs does this. The volume is way better too.
So glad you posted again!
We could wait years for it if needed, it's always worth it !
As a French person I felt that joke about Argentina lol
I myself have a massive carpenter ant colony living in a 1m x 40cm Vivarium, along with various animals and your videos are a real source of inspiration for me.
Keep it up :)
Thank you so much for the comment!! What carpenter ant species is it? :D
@@nordicants6232 it is Camponotus vagus
But I have also foundations of C.ligniperda and lateralis
The mystery plant at 8:13 is Begonia 'Emerald Jewel' (hybrid) Begonia imperialis X pustulata. The Begonias are native to moist subtropical and tropical climates. Some species are commonly grown indoors as ornamental houseplants in cooler climates.
Fact: if you didn't realize, dinosaur ants are the rarest ants in the world, and this guy just placed them like as if they were common😂
What
They're not rare at all, wtf r U on about Chachi
@@DanMarin-lf7feyes.. they are. It takes 1 minute to leave UA-cam and google something dude. Do better.
@@mandysaied no they aren't. I've got dinosaur ants. It takes a second to go touch grass
I love your videos and the vivarium! The only suggestion I have is that you should show more shots of the whole vivarium that way we get a sense of scale. The close-up shots are cool and all but I think more shots of the whole vivarium would help emphasize and show that everything is self-contained in this awesome little world you built. Only close-up shots just makes it feel like another nature documentary :-)
You did an unbelievable job sir my kids fell in love with every new ant colony that popped up and when the small pond started to come alive my son went into looking up snails and ants that can walk on water. Awesome job my man!
Was not expecting to stumble on your channel today, but I'm already 2 hours deep on content. Great stuff, dude.
Thank you SO much for editing this together for us…it was a beautiful Solstice gift. I loved that hammerhead worm. As I watched the entire process of this vivarium, it set the bar for all others, and still stands as a testament to the indomitable will of life and diversity.
I still love your temperate one every bit as much, and tracing the food chains of predator and prey. Both have been monumental projects, and I have been spellbound all the way. I wish you the best of health, joy, and success in the coming year. You are a ray of sunshine.🥂🖤🇨🇦
Hi Tamarra!!! Thank you so much for sticking with the channel :D hope you enjoy success too. Your comments are always beautifully written and is such a treat… enjoy a hopefully white Canada this holiday
@@nordicants6232 I am here for the long haul. However long it may be between posts…I will be here, you are worth waiting for. We had just enough snow here to be pretty. I’m glad my comments are enjoyed by you.🖤🇨🇦
I found myself missing the denizens of this vivarium lately. I lost my dear Husband, with whom I had celebrated 49 wonderful years of Marriage last December 13. He died April 13, and I am learning to live a completely different life from what we shared. It made me think about these amazing creatures suddenly having to find their way in an alien landscape, encountering new predators and different prey. I figure, if they could do it…so can I. However surreal this new life often seems, I am gradually adjusting, as they did.
I just wanted to thank you for bringing comfort when I most needed it. You have been a bright spot in my life since I found you, and I often shared your uploads with him. I just had to view this retrospective journey again, with its highs and lows, Yet always bursting with life, sometimes fighting, but more often making truces to live peacefully together.
I was sad for all the things I felt it still had to teach us, yet thankful for the many mysteries it DID grant us glimpses of along the way. Those termites still confound me, I never knew they could have such a varied diet. The hammerhead will always live in my fond memories, along with many more characters who displayed their beauty, and idiosyncrasies of behaviour. Thank you again…SO very much.🖤🇨🇦
The story of this Tropical vivarium is just, beautiful and it's been a wonderful journey seeing this world be shaped and life introduced into it, you made a wonderful vivarium and story Nodric ants! The drama was just perfect, and so was the story. happy holidays to everyone here
Thank you so much for this comment!! Happy holidays
2 uploads in the same decade this must be a miracle 🙏 ❤
Ahahahahah thank you so much for waiting :D
What an oddball of a suggestion for a video but my god it was the best thing UA-cam has ever randomly suggested lol.. This is the most interesting thing I've ever watched on UA-cam! Seriously dude, this is just pure awesomeness and I bet you enjoyed looking back at all the footage making this masterpiece 🤘
Suddenly this video popped up on my recommendations...I last watched your your video 4 years ago when you introduced the Silver ants into the vivarium...wow...how times flies. Merry Xmas, HNY, take care.
Take care!! Thank you so much for watching :D have made an entire temperated vivarium between those years hehe
ive heard that if you see a hammerhead worm in the wild, in places that its invasive, that you should catch it and dissolve it immediately. theyre still pretty though. dont cut it or squash it, just dissolve it, or else itll multiply.
If you continue making these could you please show more often the whole or at least bigger parts of the vivarium? The close-ups are really interesting but you can't really imagine the whole ecosystem if you only show close-ups D:
the first time you did that was at 6:16 and it was also the first time you could see the actual composition of the vivarium. A bit late if you ask me and shots like that could definitely occur more often and longer :O
was gonna suggest the same thing
Been watching your videos for years! I’m finally now in the planning process for my own tank. Thank you for all you did! Your vivarium will live on in the ways that it inspired other people to make vivarium‘s ❤
Thank you soso much for commenting this!! Means so much
watching the dinosaur ant carry that poor living snail was hilarious. I think aroud 36:00 you can even see a snail incorporated into the entrance of their home which makes me wonder whether it was an empty shell or maybe a kidnapped life snail lmao
I’ve always imagined ants have amazing, profound conversations! As a child, I could watch them for hours. They still entrance me.
I'm so glad this is getting so much views. You deserve it.
Thank you so much
damn bro, when I got to the part where you said there was a parasite I was like, "damn there dead"
Thanks again for a new video! Love this kind of content, its so cool how complex the ecosystem really is. Very sad you had to end the tank, but very kind of you too release the animals even though they are so small. Not many people would have done that and it makes me really happy you did it this way ❤
5:40 I believe that your termites supplemented their wood eating with a bit of fungi consumption. Perhaps that’s a great way for the termites to introduce enzymes and whatnot that it takes to digest cellulose. I’m no entomologist, a bit of an amateur mycologist though.
Ohhh very cool idea! Thank you so much :D
Like myself, UA-cam bought me here, love it but will have to watch it in bits. I'm always in the garden watching wildlife and insects.
An amazing journey, I feel your pain at having to end it but it has been super ! Thanks so much for sharing it
Thank you so much for watching it :D Merry christmas
@@nordicants6232 merry christmas :)
The creature at 20:30 is a rat tailed maggot aka the larvae of the drone fly. Awesome video!
Thank you so much!! :D
I randomly visited your channel to rewatch an old video and saw you uploaded a new one :D thank you!! Love your content
Amazing comeback :D thanks so much fpr watching my stuff
Ants canada is also having a big vivarium and now added a canape... so i hope he dont have to dismantle it. Its 9 months old now and turned it in a serie. Perhaps doing a collab or exchange experiences... ❤
Great video! I've seen long before a documentary about salmon, and it said that salmon is the base of the biodiversity in the rivers where they swin. A lot of animals wait for them to arrive from the sea, for meal and for fertilization of the soil. Maybe that's the reason why it was prefered by almost all creatures.
This is possibly one of the greatest random videos I've ever watched. More strangely, now I want to have one of these😅. Great commentary, videography, and editing. Phenomenal video, thanks for sharing!
Thank you soso much!! All the best :D
I was absolutely glued to this vid.. A totally *fascinating* vivarium and expertly nurtured. I almost shed a tear at the end.. like an old movie that didn't quite end the way we would have liked.. Look forward to seeing more from this channel 👍
Plus I have always been fascinated by ants, ever since I was a little girl. My sister and I would often lie on the grass observing them carrying food or debris to their nest, always in a long file. I have never ceased to be intrigued by their behaviour. So much discipline.. like the true soldiers they are! 🐜🐜❤👍
Bro this is literally the most entertaining video of ants and other insects I’ve ever seen in my life. Amazing video and job. Keep up the great work you got yourself a new subscriber my man!!!
This is literally a movie
you did your best returning the small creatures. that’s all that matters. lovely video :)
So true! :D thanks for enjoying
Super fascinating stuff! So much care and effort! Really goes to show how delicate an ecosystem is!
I went on a month long road trip one time and asked a friend if he could take care of my fish while I was gone. I had a decent size tank with more than a few different kind of fish in there. Shortly after I left, the person meant to watch the tank would get themselves arrested and go to jail, unbeknownst to me. This was before cell phones, so he couldn't contact me to let me know. I end up being gone over a month. The fish tank became an every fish for itself deathmatch, with the losers being eaten by it's hungry opponent. When I came back I surprisingly found only one surviving fish left. It was eating one of its own kind. It was a kissing fish. It would seem that of all the fish, two kissing fish would end up being the fiercest killers, eventually having to turn on each other. There wasn't even really any pieces of the ten or more other fish in there. I bought more fish, but any fish I put in would get attacked by the now traumatized kisser fish that used to be so peaceful. Sometimes it would wait awhile and I would wake up to find it eating another fish that it killed. I eventually didn't get any more fish until the kisser passed away.
you remind me of old japanese custom/folktale : kodoku.
put all variety of poisonous insect in a box,let them kill/eat each other,and the last surviving insect supposedly is the deadliest of all.
crazy sh!t.
This is what the internet was made for. I love how YT has a breadth of content in all kinds of niches that TV would never have ventured into. Thank you.
Thank you for watching!! :D
you deserve 1 million subs for all the work and dedication you put into your videos and terrariums! I love how you caption what the creatures are saying/thinking! XD
Absolutely beautiful. I'm so grateful there are people like you in the world. 🥰
You've got a great commentary style my friend, not only this but with a bio-diverse tank rivaling antscanada!!
Thank you so much!! :D
He's back!!! The man, the myth, the legend!!!! Best vivarium channel on the tube!!
Thank you hahahah epic comment!! :D
This is a really well made video i loved the entertainment and production style, amazing. Well done on the vevarium upkeep too, you're great
Thank you :D
The whole ecosystem in general I find really interesting...the ants, frogs worms....and even the snails were pretty cool to watch...
Thank you
Não sei o motivo de o UA-cam me recomendar esse vídeo mas, amei vê-lo. Obrigado por nos mostrar um pouco de como a natureza funciona e parabéns por todo o trabalho, você merece bilhões de inscritos.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hold on, what the heck happened? blinked away for a second then it was all "yeah all done now, maybe this other tank will do better", gripping viewing by the way
I can imagine you watching this vivarium for hours at a time. It’s so fascinating
Yeah I did the same, day and night… it was so cool!!
At the end when you said thanks for watching this hour long video, I was like whaaat, didnt realize how long i had been watching. Not sure how this popped up in my feed, but it kept my attention. Nice documentary.
Thank you so much for watching!!! :D
such an awesome shot at 26:35 !
Love it too!! :D
Wonder if introducing duckweed into the pond might be a good idea, helping slow down evaporation and absorbing excess nutrients. With the leaves getting stuck on semi aquatic animals like amphibians as they travel between land and water, when they rub off on the ground, they dry up and become food for isopods and millipedes.
As always love the video. Hopefully soon you will have time to do this on a more regular basis.
I hope so too! Thank you for watching :D
Well this was a weird random find on my suggested list, but it was so great to watch! I’m sorry you had to deconstruct it, this was really fascinating!
Your videos are always fun to watch and your tanks are some of the coolest on the platform keep up the good work
Thank you so much! :D
The unidentified "Lush plant" is a Begonia.
20:21 it's the larvae from the hover fly. It uses the tube to breathe :)
Epic thank you :D
This may be my favorite UA-cam Video of all time. And I have no Idea why. But it clicks with me I love it. It´s a love ode to life!
Making me smile so much!!! Thank you
Fungi breakdown deposits of wood to make them more easily eaten and digested. Cultivating fungi in this way is essentially like making a large bakery or maybe even akin to a large underground organic mill.
Ohhhh no way!! This us so cool :o do you have any links for it?
You should totally do it again! I wouldn’t mind watching a few hundred more of these 👌
Dang it really sucks you had to rip it up :(
Awesome build though, it was such a pleasure getting to watch this tank grow and evolve!!!
Excited to get to see more content from you as it is always fantastic!! Hopefully after my trip this semester Ill be able to start a similar vivarium but with creature and plants of the southwest!!
Subscribed to me for 5 years!!! you are a loyal one. Thank you for this amazing comment and let me know how it goes. :D
@@nordicants6232 Absolutely!!! Thanks for making such awesome and inspiring content! 😊
I appreciate the professionalism, and thank you for not speaking to the audience as if we're kindergarteners *cough cough* ants Canada or whatever the channel is
Throwing a comment how great this is to hopefully help you gain more views. Algorithm hopefully pushing great vids and creators of what this channel was originally for instead of just reaction videos or toxic political videos to divide us. Just a great video and couldn't imagine the time that goes into creating this vivarium and then recording and editing all on top. Keep it up!
Thank you so much :D
I really enjoyed this and am sorry it had to be taken apart. I was compiling a list of what I wanted added to it myself.
Really nice ! I'd love a badly made paint-map in addition to the chapter section for this kind of video, just representating the big vivarium features and where the different species live. It's a bit hard to follow the colonies and their satellites when we're always zoomed in !
That is true… will try next time :D
Im pretty sure antscanada made this pop up. I love this. Thanks for having a hobby bro.
Thank you bro :D
"How old is your vivarium?"
"Years old."
How old is it really?
Yes.
@@nordicants6232 haha!
What a great story! The main thing I learnt from this is that you have to be extremely careful when adding new species to the vivarium. Several times you had species appear from other introductions and the unwanted addition of the Argentine ants threatened to destroy your whole "world"! Thanks for a really interesting documentary.
Exactly!! The eternal problem of invasive species with the addition of a restricted space for all animals to be in can be a nightmare. Thanks for the nice comment :D
These videos make me so jealous. New York has harsh laws about antkeeping, and the only "natural ants" I really find are generic black ants, with the occasional generic orange ant. Nothing cool like trapjaws, weavers, marauders, honeypots, fire, harvester, dracula, bullet, or any other ant species that would be thoroughly interesting to watch. It blocks me from getting into the hobby at all, since I live in the mountains and we are constantly at war to keep the generic ants out of our house already, no sense bringing more in without a good reason.
This is amazing... instantly makes me want to go build my own vivarium!
Do it!! Its so fun!!
@@nordicants6232 am making my own one with fish and others this tine
Me too ^.^
Imagine someone accidentally broke that glass? Boy oh boy, you’d have one heck of a nightmare on your hands.
That was SO cool to watch & learn from!
Thank you.
💝🙏💞
The wierd looking worm with the tube protruding from its snout in the pond is actually a Rat-tailed larvae. They turn into Botflies that help pollinate vegetation like bees. The reason they turned up your vivarium's water is because it was lacking oxygen.
I give you an a plus for this time consuming work well done
Thank you for watching!
This is one of the most incredible videos I’ve ever seen
Thank you sm for watching!!! :D
the red springtails are beautiful ❣
Very!!
Love your channel I can’t wait for the next video
Thank you so much!! :D
Extremely good! I am not into ants, but this video was so interesting, funny in its extra comments and edcational. All thumbs up and definately worth a subscription.
Thank you soso much! All the best :D
Going through your collection answered plenty of questions..
Thank you for taking time to show us mere enthusiasts...👍🤙🤝
Im sure you get asked this a lot but do you ever find escapees outside the vivarium? Would maybe be interesting to have a video explaining such occurrences in your natural storytelling manner :)
That was fantastic thanks for sharing couldn’t keep my eyes off it so much diversity.All the best for 2023 from Glasgow Scotland 🏴
Thank you sm :D
When the world needed him the most, he arrived….
xD
This terrarium was awesome, probably one of the coolest on UA-cam, it will be missed
asking for advice on keeping the grass alive in the vivarium, because I planted the grass after 3 days it actually became dry
Keep the dirt moist ;)
this is amazing man i love watching your videos
Thank you :D
Thank you :D
Really fascinating how many of the animals just… appeared. There must have been eggs in the soil, babies in the plants, etc.
Exactly! Insane amount just hitchiked :D
Life finds a way
Beautiful. The end was sad yet poetic. All ecosystems come to an end whether we see it coming or not.
:,) yes, very sad…
I've definitely dreamt of doing something like this as well, I was thinking of adding creatures from my native habitat to create an indoor representation of outside.
Obviously I would avoid invasive species.
Building indoor habitat this basically a Creating a private server
-Tierzoo meme probably
This is the best video on UA-cam i have ever seen, thank You so much!
I love this
I love your videos I would love if you posted more but I know this videos take a long time to make 😊
Thank you so much for watching
@@nordicants6232 it ok
Not sure why i started getting this stuff on my recommended last night but it was probably the best decision youtube has ever made
Brilliant yt content. Brilliant, period. The unknown plant, pointed out in chapter 1, looks like a watermelon begonia. When you introduce a "colony" of ants, as you say, what individuals are you introducing exactly? Do you include a queen, or workers or soldiers? Is any female ant able to transform into a queen? Love this stuff though, man. It's incredible. Do any of the subjects infest your living space, or do they all remain in the viv? I've built a bioactive vivarium for a crested gecko I plan to get in a couple of months, once the tank is well established. The microfauna I ordered failed, so I have to reseed it with springtails and isopods, but the substrate and leca false bottom I got from NEHERP is awesome. Looking forward to more content in the future!
I also wonder which inhabitants you purchased
I introduce a whole colony always with queens and brood and workers!! With olive oil barrier on the side of the tank and a net on top of the vivarium nothing really escapes. This vivarium was open air on my balcony though! So had it open for things to fly in. Most animals were just trying to get into the tank and not out
@@nordicants6232 that's awesome
Man this was such a fun video to watch
Now, to be fair, I haven't seen the European version, but I highly recommend putting Euscorpius in there if you haven't already! And if you ever end up back in Asia, then I also highly recommend Liocheles australasiae, they're a very small, parthenogenetic species of scorpion.
Amazing ideas :D
This was quite awesome! I used to watch things like this all my childhood, and even since having kids where we set up aquariums to watch for hours on end. Very well done! I really liked the chapters and narrating. Please do more. :)
You should probably be looking into national geographic or some similar show where you get to get paid to do this.
Where do you find a tank that big? I don't think I'll ever have enough room for it, but I'm still pretty curious.