Ants

[bromide]

man, im lucky. one morning, i found all the crickets dead. u know y? CUZ OF ANTS. good thing i put the cricket cage in the bathroom. my gecko couldve died!

 

[5HiddenLizards]

Wow! were they just plain sugar ants? Or the fire ants?

 

[gumbii]

my boy has been having that problem... since it's been like, record breaking hot here in LA, the ants are insane... i had to spray around the chicken coops and roach colonies... horrible...

 

[acpart]

I get carpenter ants in the cricket cage during the summer (they seem a lot more interested in the gutload than in the crickets). This past summer I sprayed cooking oil around the outside edges of the tank that crickets were in and the ants couldn't get in anymore.

Aliza

 

[5HiddenLizards]

Yeah I used to get regular "sugar" ants in all my reptile cages at my parent's house. They would just go straight to the water dish & back out again. I moved the tanks, sprayed and everything, but they kept finding ways to get in. They must have been really thirsty.

 

[Jordan]

hmm, ants dont seem to be a problem here in england, and even if any ants got near my leos it couldnt kill them, the ants in england are just plain and harmless.

 

[bromide]

it wasn't fire ants, it was just plain ants. idk wat sugar ants are

 

[5HiddenLizards]

lol i call the plain ants sugar ants for some reason, although they never go after sugar...hmmm...anyway...the ones i had problems with were an orange translucent color.

 

[bromide]

oooooh ok lol