Ahhhhhhhh antsssss!!!!!!
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snipeusa14
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i have the same issue please help 
SpinyFranky
New Member
Grapes.
Take grapes and cut them in half.
Make a little trail of consistenly spread out grapes leading from where the ants are to where you want the ants to go. If your devious, the neighbors yard is a popular choice. At the end point have a little stash of cut up grapes. Replace this stash a few times (maybe 3 times over one week) but cut off the trail. The ants will learn to relate this new area with consistent food, and they will move there permanently.
This is the eco-friendly choice. Highly successful when done properly.
Take grapes and cut them in half.
Make a little trail of consistenly spread out grapes leading from where the ants are to where you want the ants to go. If your devious, the neighbors yard is a popular choice
. At the end point have a little stash of cut up grapes. Replace this stash a few times (maybe 3 times over one week) but cut off the trail. The ants will learn to relate this new area with consistent food, and they will move there permanently.This is the eco-friendly choice. Highly successful when done properly.
Action Jackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
Man, I hate ants! I battle ants with my outdoor cages constantly. They were biting my female jackson so bad her eyes were all puffy and she has black spots on her. I moved her and she looks a little better today. I spray all the time but I can't get rid of them.
Fearaffect
Avid Member
Get some pnut butter and borax. mix a 5%(no more or they die to fast) with the pnut butter.
They'll eat then take to nest and feed to queen.....the borax will kill them and with queen dead....no more new ants.
Also, you can add yeast instead of borax, but that will kill them before they get to the nest.....the yeast will cause their bellies to expand and POOF! They explode....lol
I had a major prob. to....not anymore though.......
They'll eat then take to nest and feed to queen.....the borax will kill them and with queen dead....no more new ants.
Also, you can add yeast instead of borax, but that will kill them before they get to the nest.....the yeast will cause their bellies to expand and POOF! They explode....lol
I had a major prob. to....not anymore though.......
millerman6401
Member
if ur cage in on a table you can put all 4 legs in a cup filled with water.... the ants crawl up the cups to get up to the cham and drown in the water
Lizardlover
New Member
Diatomaceous earth seems to work pretty well at warding them off as well. Mantids will not normally eat ants due to their toxins.
melvbrooke
New Member
Drown them. It works amazingly. Drown the cage and they will flee. Make sure your chameleon isnt inside.
GreenFlinger
Member
hmmm....will chameleons eat ants?
Elizadolots
New Member
No...the good news is, it doesn't seem like ants will eat chameleons.
However, ants will eat crickets so if you have feeders around, that's a concern.
Fearaffect
Avid Member
Some species of ants will go after chams...especially the younger ones ....
Fire Ants can destroy an entire collection if given the chance
Elizadolots
New Member
I'd never heard that. It does support the idea that you need to get the ants cleaned up.
KingKameha
New Member
Windex works well to both kill the ants and to destroy the chemical trails they leave.
jdog1027
Avid Member
Actually, they will. I lost a very large portion of baby Veileds in outdoor cages in a matter of a day about a month ago. I had no choice but to treat the ground with ant poison granules. They were also attacking my feeder building where I breed my bugs. Ants are a pain in the ass. Some of the baby Veileds were literally skeletonized when I got home one afternoon.
Strange but true. I've used Windex in desperation to kill an ant trail and it worked. Kills them on contact.
Fearaffect
Avid Member
Windex works great short term......but they keep coming back once it dries up.....
I use comet around the outside(they dont like crossing it, but if the food smell is strong enough, they will)
They are resilient little critters and unless you get the nests......they wont stop........its survival afterall......
I use comet around the outside(they dont like crossing it, but if the food smell is strong enough, they will)
They are resilient little critters and unless you get the nests......they wont stop........its survival afterall......
Syn
Avid Member
After the business "next door" cleared out the desert lot, an entire ant colony moved underneath my house and only my house. Every summer/fall when it rains, I have ants. It's really depressing because they will create colonies where I know I have buried pets. Anyways off the depressing topic and onto solutions..
Diatomaceous earth is a good way to ward off ants, put a line of it where you don't want them going. Sprinkle bits in their lines if you see them. If they walk through it, it will cut up their exoskeleton and basically dehydrate them.
Borax mixed with any number of "foods" for ants will kill them off. If you want instant deaths, use more borax. If you want them to take the borax back to the colony, use less. As fearaffect said, 5% or so would be a good amount.
Cinnamon, cucumber peels, practically anything with a very strong smell tends to keep ants away. It does not kill them.
Terro ant baits are premade ant killers that use borax. It's a little expensive but it comes with it's own "house" to put the bait in.
Corn meal is another option, but it doesn't work with all species of ants. Generally speaking it's not considered humane because once an ant ingests it, they tend to expand to the point they cannot expand any further without, well, dying. I use corn meal as a last ditch effort.
If I had photos of the ants after it rained, you would understand why I have had to learn so much about them...
Diatomaceous earth is a good way to ward off ants, put a line of it where you don't want them going. Sprinkle bits in their lines if you see them. If they walk through it, it will cut up their exoskeleton and basically dehydrate them.
Borax mixed with any number of "foods" for ants will kill them off. If you want instant deaths, use more borax. If you want them to take the borax back to the colony, use less. As fearaffect said, 5% or so would be a good amount.
Cinnamon, cucumber peels, practically anything with a very strong smell tends to keep ants away. It does not kill them.
Terro ant baits are premade ant killers that use borax. It's a little expensive but it comes with it's own "house" to put the bait in.
Corn meal is another option, but it doesn't work with all species of ants. Generally speaking it's not considered humane because once an ant ingests it, they tend to expand to the point they cannot expand any further without, well, dying. I use corn meal as a last ditch effort.
If I had photos of the ants after it rained, you would understand why I have had to learn so much about them...
