My Mushroom Growing Operation Using Termites in My Giant Rainforest Vivarium

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I'm conspiring with some special termites to grow a highly valued mushroom species called Termitomyces. It's a fungus that has been known to only be cultivated in the wild by termites, who farm the fungus as a food source within their nests. Scientists still don't know how to artificially cultivate the fungus in a lab or grow it agriculturally like most other edible mushrooms. The issue is that the mushroom and the termites are involved in a symbiosis where one cannot survive without the other, and so, using the natural conditions of my giant rainforest vivarium, I hope to be the first in the world to grow Termitomyces indoors. This is the epic story of how I intend to do it. Hope you enjoy Season 3, Episode 2 of my Ecosystem Vivarium Series. Ant love forever! This video was shot in 4K Ultra HD resolution.

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All Comments (21)
  • @Clairesfood
    My Sunday Routine: wakeup at 6 am to see if a new episode has dropped, but delay my gratification until I shower, make breakfast, then sit down to enjoy before the hubs wakes up. AntsCanada is my Sunday morning vibe!
  • @NotWatchingTV
    mushrooms saved my life <3 - a happy mycologist, grateful to watch these mushies grow through termites! You are amazing as they are
  • @prato-24
    Here we go!! Still need that 24hr camera so we can check in more often!!!!
  • @Ragindeath415
    There is something oddly cute watching a spider clean itself. I can't quite explain it, but it is very satisfying to watch.
  • @adamhalcyon3393
    You are probably too big of a channel to see this, but I'll say it anyway. You remind me of myself and some friends I have. Always tinkering around. Testing new ideas or proving old ones, just because. Keep that wonder in your heart and I promise, you'll never get old. I wish you all the success you so deserve, truly.
  • @konan2206
    Justice for Godzilla! ✊ But for real, im proud of your decision on Snip. I hope he teaches us more about how vulnerable predators grow around top predators.
  • @Ladyluck1776
    My grandson never misses an episode. He loves ants, and has been trying to raise them, is hard work he says. Please if you could say hello to Brody. Keep up the good work!!
  • Strangely enough I have always thought of termites as cute. They are like the chubby cousins of ants that don't come after our food. The Bavarian pub music during the poop tube construction just cemented that in my head.
  • @droidzilla22
    I just wanted to say your series is a delight to watch. Most of my YouTube content I watch on my phone, but I save your show to watch on my large screen. Your photography is excellent.
  • @Shadare
    So many plant and animal episodes, awesome to see the fungi get their own episode.
  • @shayladavis1843
    I’ve been binging the rainforest vivarium series and absolutely love all the love and care you put into these projects! Watching this channel gives me the fuel I need for my animal-loving mind
  • @Sarappreciates
    Here's a comment for the algorithm. I feel a little guilty saying anything at all today; this looks like a scientific episode, best leaving the comments to experts, but I can't help myself! What a beautiful learning experience, and what an emotion of success just from watching!! I can't imagine the feeling it must be to have grown it yourself, but I've been here since before the start of this giant project, and I feel a little like a part of it each week. I'm more connected with nature when I watch. Thank you for the opportunity to see all this magic of nature exploding before my eyes!
  • @butter7734
    Pretty cool that the flooding outside was mimicked without trying.
  • Instead of studying im here watching the best ecosystem series in youtube!
  • @AngryKittens
    18:47 It's a dipluran. Also called "two tailed bristletails". But they're only very distantly related to true (three-tailed/jumping) bristletails (Archaeognatha). They're often mistaken for earwigs (Dermaptera) or false centipedes (Symphyla). Also not closely related to either. Their closest relatives are springtails and coneheads. All of them are very common soil detritivores, though in the case of diplurans, they're also predatory (unlike the other two).
  • @dabaco11
    I have raised many furry animals and as a young teenager I raised bullfrogs, bees, rats, mice, snakes, lizards, caiman and a few others. What you have done literally blows my mind.
  • @SNN95
    "You can't make me said spiders are cute!" Moments later... "Why are you so cute?!"
  • Love how he’s like: you won’t believe what I saw! When he literally provides video evidence and it makes logical sense for that to be the case.