ants killed crickets! need suggestions

[phase]

hey guys so i split up 500 1/8th crickets into 2 containers.. put 1 in the garage and i kept the other in my room. the first night all the crickets in the garage were infested with ants. the other night, in my room i had an infestation of the other 250 crickets! ughhh what should i do? any suggestion on how i can keep the ants away from the crickets?

 

[SSimsswiSS]

I use Ortho max home defense, around the outside of my garage about once a week. I just spray a line and no ants so far. And I have alot of things in my garage that ants would like.

 

[jdog1027]

I have a never ending battle with ants here in the south. The ONLY way I am able to stop them is I built a rack/shelf out of 1" PVC pipng and I placed each leg into a cut 20oz. drink bottle. Prior to placing the rack legs into the cups, I placed ant poison inside of each cup. It doesn't come in contact with the crickets, but it will keep the ants from being able to get into the cages. If there is any contact to thewall or floor, the ants will make a new line into the cricket cages. The only contact to the floor should be the cups with the poison on them. Ants can decimate an entire cricket colony.

 

[phase]

I have a never ending battle with ants here in the south. The ONLY way I am able to stop them is I built a rack/shelf out of 1" PVC pipng and I placed each leg into a cut 20oz. drink bottle. Prior to placing the rack legs into the cups, I placed ant poison inside of each cup. It doesn't come in contact with the crickets, but it will keep the ants from being able to get into the cages. If there is any contact to thewall or floor, the ants will make a new line into the cricket cages. The only contact to the floor should be the cups with the poison on them. Ants can decimate an entire cricket colony.

wow that sound like a great way to approach the problem.. any pics of your setup?

 

[phase]

I use Ortho max home defense, around the outside of my garage about once a week. I just spray a line and no ants so far. And I have alot of things in my garage that ants would like.

the ants really like cricketcrack!

 

[SSimsswiSS]

the ants really like cricketcrack!

Hmmmmm! Maybe I should team up with Uncle Milton

 

[chameleonoobie]

One end of my walk in cage is a small shed that I keep all my crickets and BSF grubs that are pupating in a bin, it is basically outdoors. I have this common plastic shelf with the legs sitting in some teflon coated baking pans I got at a dollar store. They are filled with water and baby oil. I never have ants and this shelf has a bag of potatoes, chicken mash, dried cricket food mix, and tubs of various sized crickets and other things. To extend the legs, I had to use 1”pvc couplings that fit just right in the normal holes for the feet and small pieces of 1” pvc pipe to make the short little legs needed to raise it up enough to clear the little metal tubs. Like the other suggestion, you just make a little moat around each leg and with this kind of shelf you can store a ton of stuff ant free.

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

I heard an old remedy yesterday I think he said to put liquid peppermint on a papertowel next to it and they'll be gone.

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

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