Very enjoyable to watch. No music. No fast forwarding. Yay!

I recently ordered the Mini Hearth (Modular) from you just a few days ago and I am excited to get it up and going. I currently have an 8 month old Camponotus floridanus colony that I have reared since collecting the queen in June 2019. I counted roughly 30-39 minor workers at this time, 14 pupae, 8 various instar larvae, and a small egg pile. I had placed the colony into a homemade plaster nest when the queen had 16 workers inside the test tube. I have a feeling it's going to be really fun getting them to transfer into the Mini Hearth lol.😂😁🐜🐜🐜

Love the magnet system for cleaning and great details and attention to the formicariums!

Very glad to see an upload. I had a terrible ant disaster today. =( I was moving my P. californicus colony from a formicarium into a naturalistic style 150 gallon vivarium set up ( a process that has been going for 3 days now as the colony is several thousand strong) and yesterday I noticed the queen go through the tubing and into the vivarium. Not long later when I went to check again her workers were not able to make up their minds where to lead her and so started pulling her in all different directions very roughly. I figured they would just work it out and that their instincts would lead them to the right choice but when I came back to check this morning the queen was laying on top of the newly moved garbage pile with no legs at all. The rest of the colony looks super pleased with their decision and is working away diligently as ever. =(

@Gravnaut

6 жыл бұрын

You might try catching another queen and placing her in the foraging area and see if they will accept her.

@Rorther

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, thats crazy!

Just ordered your summer mini hearth pack! Super excited.

Thanks for letting us watch them move in! I really wanted to see that :)

Very nice. I dumped my Camponotus chroamadios in the mini hearth and they absolutely love it.

Can't wait to use your products!

Really love the updated quality of your vid! I can’t wait to order my mini hearth 😍

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Raine!

Super happy to see a new video just moved a colony from a fortress to a casita.can't wait for my 4by6 nucleus to move the other

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Southwest Ant Channel Thank you for the support, it has been a long time. Lots of videos planned, well get your 4x6 out soon.

very informative video, thanks !!!

I always try to normal move first; then if fails dump method

@oslobodjenik

5 жыл бұрын

Ya its bad to dump

@DanielGutschik

4 жыл бұрын

oslobodjenik Agreed

@BasedLusitano

3 жыл бұрын

I dump em every time if they are stubborn it’s not too bad

@laurencesun_

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Great video Mack! That Camponotus americanus colony is awesome looking.

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Michael!

I like you method of moving them I'll try that soon.

Been waiting for a video from here. Glad to see an upload!

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! They will be more frequent in the future.

@NameName-em2yk

2 ай бұрын

@@TarheelantsUSAYou responded so casually to a bigger youtuber

I wish we had this species! Beautiful

As always amazing

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

wow this video is amazing

Very nice video! Small colony go on to be bigger))

hey, Tarheel Ants I just ordered your summer Mini Hearth pack!

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Great, thank you for the support Jack!

Awesome video!

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Wow, you uploaded

Your queen had a mite in this video on her back leg. Did she ever get rid of that?

@antsunited7931

4 жыл бұрын

which one?

@bellalovesants3266

4 жыл бұрын

@@antsunited7931 2:30 back left leg it's a red mite

Fantastic

Love you videos ❤️

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I just recently purchased a stand nest on etsy. Very similar in design from a different seller ☝️ Great setup 👍

great editing

Nice ant colony

Another great and informative video! I'm not sure if it is answered somewhere else but what type of camera are you using to get these excellent videos?

The magnetic windows are really good. I don't know the nests shown, just seen videos of people with them.

Such a long wait

Which camera and lens are you using to record? Great video btw :)

Wow so beautiful. They look like the nest from the aliens movie from the 90s

Woohooo an upload

I just found your channel, I follow Ants Canada as well, What's your favorite species of ant and what would you recommend for bignners?

Great video! My new minihearth came in and it's amazing !

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

AntsUSA Thank you, and thank you for the support!

@antsusa215

6 жыл бұрын

TarheelAnts do you take custom nest requests ?

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

All the time! Email us at tarheelants@gmail.com for custom ant nest inquiries.

@antsusa215

6 жыл бұрын

TarheelAnts alright I think I might ask about buying a modular minihearth 😂(made to request)

How many regular size camponotus-queen and workers would you consider ready to move into a mini hearth? queen solo or queen and how many workers? I got a camp floridanus with 10 workers tube set up but hearth ready?

Greetings! Thanks for great and very helpfull videos. Can i ask what is the size of those round magnets you use to hold the front screen of the formicariums?

@ducky3271

6 жыл бұрын

Vladimir Zzz they are sbout 3 centermeter neodinyum magnets

@vladimirzzz979

6 жыл бұрын

Itz GeckoGamer hmm i dont really think so mate, 3cm is more than an inch, those magnets are more like 5x3 or 5x2 millimeters

Hi Mack, nice video. At 2:29 of the video it look like your queen has a mite on her left rear leg. At 2:42 too

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

She sure does! I don't think its harmful, but I will remove it anyways.

I have three colonies of Prenolepis Imparis, two of them with one queen, and the third with two queens. None of them have workers, but they all have plenty of brood. When I first caught them, I placed them straight into the Mini Hearth so they could start their colonies. I saw your other Prenolepis Imparis videos so I thought it would be okay. Is it fine that they are in the mini hearth so early on, or should I move them into test tubes until the colonies can develope?

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Rain Wathooshkins The Mini Hearth is good for founding queens so there is nothing wrong I can think of versus a test tube. Some advantages would be not having to move them later, rolling of the test tube is no longer a problem, mold on the cotton , etc. Feeding your first workers that arrive will be easier in a Mini Hearth, also. Test tubes work and have been used for decades to raise Ants but having interviewed several people as to why they used them in lab settings the main answer is cost efficiency. When we want to raise Ants for pet ant colonies investing more in our supplies for raising Ants makes more sense than when you are on a budget for a research grant. I could go on....haha.

Make more videos please!

His voice is so mellow and calming

I got your mini hearth a few months ago, should I move my Formica colony with 2 workers and 5 other brood to the mini hearth the pupae are almost workers

I have a small Brachymyrmex queen that is on a test tube setup, she has a few eggs and at least five larvaes... The tube is running out of water and I was wondering about to move them to something like the mini heart, can I just connect the tube to the nest and let her do the moving at their own speed?

So i have the same type of ant species (Camponotus Castaneus), but i am planning to buy a talus for a single queen and brood, what size would you reccommend? Please awnser.

They hang on the sealing or put eggs on the sealing due to the humidity.

What kind of ant set up was that, the one with the phosphorus.

I want one of those things to put my young colony in

@lemiifrog8712

5 жыл бұрын

Go to his website I think he sells them

@pheidolefan

4 жыл бұрын

The formicariums in the video are mini hearths.

Sub'd.

Hey. How does the water tower work? Does it flow into the concete that the nest is made of to keep it humid?

@TarheelantsUSA

5 жыл бұрын

No, it is just for evaporation into the air within the nest. This keeps the humidity at comfortable levels for the colony.

@elijahtommy7772

5 жыл бұрын

@@TarheelantsUSA yeh i knew that bit but i meant does it just go through the conrete or have you cute a hole out for it or what?

What is that little clear plastic cap you are containing the the queen in?

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

misslanie23 Just one of our feeding dishes.

What kind of test tube holders are those?

I wish you guys weren't so expensive because I'm a hobo ant lover :)

@jeanjaz

3 жыл бұрын

They are the least expensive from what I've seen.

friend a question that is what you put where the queen put his eggs that round thing like metal. thanks for your response and attention

@TarheelantsUSA

5 жыл бұрын

Water Tower.

I just found a black carpenter queen with wings, but she was doing the “searching” walk. I put her into a test tube setup; should I have?

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, now you are just watching for her eggs and maybe to see if she will remove her wings.

@CN-kf8xj

6 жыл бұрын

insects galore You don't need too.

@poopshittr

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I found a Tapinoma sessile queen with her wings and I placed her in my test tube and, days later she layed eggs and never removed her wings.

What species of ant is this? I've noticed them in my region, and I'm curious.

Amigo donde compras tus hormigueros?

What was the first spices

also in michigan we dont have C. americanus. in michigan C. novaeboracensis seems to be the most common.

I really want a mini hearth but I live in Australia, would that be a problem?

@TarheelantsUSA

4 жыл бұрын

Shipping to Australia is no problem.

🎉

What?! A new video?!

@nurbsants

6 жыл бұрын

We want more! Dumping works ;)

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

What kind of ants are these? I have the same kind and don’t know the name

@atlanticants

4 жыл бұрын

Repty Lyfe that is Camponotus castaneus

@daro2259

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe a solenopsis

Is this species local where you live?

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

myrmecofourmis Yes

@joemann7667

4 жыл бұрын

TarheelAnts what kind are they?

What is the Camponotus species at 8:00? I have one that looks exactly the same. (Please respond if you know).

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Camponotus chromaiodes.

@asleenalee3643

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Where do you get these habitat kits?

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

seyashi www.tarheelants.com

OH WTF THAT QUEEN IS LARGE

HOW DO U MOVE A SMALL ANT COLONY IN A SNAP CAP CONTAINER? Pls help me

careful

What was the first spicies

When in doubt, dump it out

is the atom b still for sale?

@TarheelantsUSA

5 жыл бұрын

Kael Alexander Yes, only by custom order though. Drop us an email at tarheelants@gmail.com

@lettussy

5 жыл бұрын

ok thanks. I have a Crematogastor species queen that hasn't yet laid brood and it has been a few days. do you recommend the atom nest over a test tube set up?

What are those containers called I think my queens would like them

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

i love animals Mini Hearths?

@floofycreaturesgalore1564

6 жыл бұрын

ok thx

I have no idea what species my queen is

I found a queen so small it's these size of my androids power button it's as small. As a penny smaller wanna see a vid?

how many workers can hold this nest sorry?

@Antboi4653

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on species

I'll never spray for ants the rest of my life.

Wait why start moving them even tho their in their nanitics stage and not when theres 10 -20 workers

@TarheelantsUSA

5 жыл бұрын

NoSkin Where is this nonsense written you speak of? Haha. That’s a decent guideline but just doesn’t make sense to use as a hard rule in every case. I moved these because I was ready to.

Dry eggs? Do you mean larvae and pupae?

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Kyle Rosenberg No I think that was the one word that fit the situation best when considering the audience and other possible words for that. From talking to so many newcomers the term eggs is more meaningful than brood, larvae, pupae etc when describing the entire brood pile. I am not teaching any science lessons, simply describing moving Ants around.

@kylerosenberg2508

6 жыл бұрын

Don't get me wrong, I totally understand why it's important to best cater to your audience while slowly easing them into more complicated subject matter, but I don't think the terms larvae and pupae will fly over too many people's heads. Either way, the lifecycle of ants is something most will learn early on through both observation as well as pieces of media (like this video for example) that are expected to keep people well informed and educated on topics such as these. I guess what I'm trying to say that it might be best to be aware of your audience and expose them to more information over time while at the same time not underestimating their intelligence (most of the people watching these videos have probably done atleast a very minimal amount of research on antkeeping before jumping right in). That's just a nit-pick of mine. Other than that I thought it was a great video and expressed the information that it was trying to get across really well.

Whats the id of that queen in the video at exactly 8:57

@TarheelantsUSA

5 жыл бұрын

Aphaenogaster lamellidens.

What is the camponotus species at 2:03

@TarheelantsUSA

5 жыл бұрын

Camponotus castaneus

Yeah I was about to say dumping ants like that isn't very good. I was watching another Ant Channel where this guy did it and he did it very roughly. I commented saying it's not good to do that and the person got really upset and backlashed at me for it. so I told him that I'm going to unsubscribe to him because of how he treated his ants and how he treated his viewers for telling him that it's not good to dump it's like that.

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

Joe The Juggalo After working with your local species you get a feel for what works well with them. I would only do this with a very small amount. Most Ants it is best to be very patient while moving them.

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

It can be bad for some colonies depending mainly on the species and size of colony. Small ants with only nanitics (the first workers) are at the greatest risk of causing problems to them doing this (in my experience of course). Solenopsis sp. do not seem to have trouble, despite being small, but Pheidole spp. and especially Tetramorium spp. do not do well from being dumped when the colonies are very small. Larger ants seem to have a much better time adjusting to a sudden change in conditions and loss of their pheromone trail "roadmap".

@JoeXTheXJuggalo1

6 жыл бұрын

TarheelAnts well the guy was holding the test tube up too high above the opening and he was repeatedly and roughly hitting it like it was a bottle of ketchup. That channel wasn't the first any channel that got upset with me an backlashed at me for calmly telling them what they're doing wrong. The owner of that one channel got mad at me because I told him that he shouldn't dump the ants in their so roughly. Another channel got mad an backlashed at me because they was promoting selling and sending different ant queen species though the mail and it's not good to send ants from one reagion, climate, environment to another. The other one was the worse of all was some amature teen was taking wild ants from outside and dumping then into outward of his established ant colony of his formicarium (it's a well known product of another big ant keeping company). Well that child didn't like my comment saying he shouldn't be throwing wild ants into you ant colony like that because they will fight an there is the possibility that the wild ants could kill his queen. His backlash was he got a bunch of his little friends to dislike on alot of my videos and comment the same bad comment over an over again.

@JoeXTheXJuggalo1

6 жыл бұрын

Johnfuse I know you can gently bump them into the formicarium OR outward but this guy was beating on the test tube like I was a bottle of ketchup repeatedly.

@JoeXTheXJuggalo1

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Presnell I don't even remember the name it's been Chevron month since I last saw any of his backlash on my comments. All I remember is that the guy is European and he made is formicarium out of I think some kind of plaster mix. He built it in a round cylinder container and built it in multiple section.

where u live? (country)

@TarheelantsUSA

6 жыл бұрын

USA

Lol