Me VS a whole lotta ants!!

[anna.jc]

My dad has gone into a lot of effort of cutting a nice branch off a dead eucalypt and fitted it over and over to put in my diamonds new enclosure (i cannot find one big enough at the pet stores). I almost wasn't going to worry about treating it because I couldn't see any creepy crawlies but i saw a few ants and thought maybe soak it for a couple of hours.

I took it out and dried it and they were still there and there were more..... I put it back in the water and I watched them crawl on the branch UNDER THE WATER :shock:, man o man are they tough little buggers!!! this is worse than i thought i am now pouring boiling water over the branch and in the holes and they are still coming out. I feel terrible about it i always knew ants are amazing critters ... but they just won't die!!!

 

[Darlyn]

RUN!
Run for your life.
You are in dire peril.
Whatever you do, don't watch Attack of the Killer Ants.

 

[anna.jc]

I keep checking the bathroom where it is soaking expecting this gigantic swarm to be in there and me standing there going Oh... **** so this is what happenes when you mess with Mother Nature!!! RUN lol

 

[dragonlover1]

My dad has gone into a lot of effort of cutting a nice branch off a dead eucalypt and fitted it over and over to put in my diamonds new enclosure (i cannot find one big enough at the pet stores). I almost wasn't going to worry about treating it because I couldn't see any creepy crawlies but i saw a few ants and thought maybe soak it for a couple of hours.

I took it out and dried it and they were still there and there were more..... I put it back in the water and I watched them crawl on the branch UNDER THE WATER :shock:, man o man are they tough little buggers!!! this is worse than i thought i am now pouring boiling water over the branch and in the holes and they are still coming out. I feel terrible about it i always knew ants are amazing critters ... but they just won't die!!!

Ants are tough bastards,I once brought a branch home only to find it infested and spent more than a month trying to get rid of the mongrels and ended up with the branch under water in a barrel for weeks with a brick to stop it floating.Then I used liquid nails to block the hole so the crickets couldn't use it.

 

[PythonLegs]

Good lesson for others there...dont use the branches that have ant nests in them.

Can someone make a facepalm smiley? We need one.
Real bad.

 

[anna.jc]

Ants are tough bastards,I once brought a branch home only to find it infested and spent more than a month trying to get rid of the mongrels and ended up with the branch under water in a barrel for weeks with a brick to stop it floating.Then I used liquid nails to block the hole so the crickets couldn't use it.

Oh dear my snake will never move in to its new home lol!!! well so far i dont see any coming out of the hole that is not submerged in boiling water and I was seeing that i was also flushing their larvae so the boiling water seems to have made a definite impact into the deep canals.

I could not worry about it but.... all i can picture is in the cartoons how the picnic basket starts to be carried away by ants thats what I see them doing to my diamond lol!!

 

[Darlyn]

Good lesson for others there...dont use the branches that have ant nests in them.

Can someone make a facepalm smiley? We need one.
Real bad.

There is one. There is a thread about it.

 

[PythonLegs]

Oh. Well that probably saves me needing to type anything ever again..

 

[Decoy]

Weird... I was just about to post a question about ants... I have a terrarium for a Beardie and the ants have figured out that theres usually gear in there that they can eat, so I have a stead stream of the little buggers going in and out of the enclosure. Obviously I don't want to poison them - but I'd like to be rid of them. Anyone else have this issue, and if so how do you deal with it?

 

[PythonLegs]

Move the terrarium?

:facepalm:

Ooo! Thats gonna cut my typing time by 95%!

 

[Darlyn]

Weird... I was just about to post a question about ants... I have a terrarium for a Beardie and the ants have figured out that theres usually gear in there that they can eat, so I have a stead stream of the little buggers going in and out of the enclosure. Obviously I don't want to poison them - but I'd like to be rid of them. Anyone else have this issue, and if so how do you deal with it?

If ants are getting his food put a saucer of water underneath so they can't get to it.

 

[anna.jc]

Weird... I was just about to post a question about ants... I have a terrarium for a Beardie and the ants have figured out that theres usually gear in there that they can eat, so I have a stead stream of the little buggers going in and out of the enclosure. Obviously I don't want to poison them - but I'd like to be rid of them. Anyone else have this issue, and if so how do you deal with it?

that is also why I didn't want to put the branch in there I knew there would be a line of ants looking for food in the house! Yea like Darlyn said a saucer of water and I haven't tried it but apparently they cannot walk across salt either.