Ant Invasion
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Re: Ant Invasion
Really!? How did other ants get to your queen? What type of setup was she in?
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Well I have figured out how to keep the little buggers away from my ants! Get a few tin foil baking pans (they range from 1/2" to 6" deep) and place your set up in the middle on some sort of pedestal to keep the nest or out world out of the pan, now fill the pan with water. Your basicly putting a water filled moat around your castle!
MadVampy
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Name is also Mike but please don't confuse me with Mikey Bustos, two different people.
Keeper of Solenopsis Ants.
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Name is also Mike but please don't confuse me with Mikey Bustos, two different people.
Keeper of Solenopsis Ants.
Re: Ant Invasion
Foxish wrote:This I like.MadVampy wrote:Well I have figured out how to keep the little buggers away from my ants! Get a few tin foil baking pans (they range from 1/2" to 6" deep) and place your set up in the middle on some sort of pedestal to keep the nest or out world out of the pan, now fill the pan with water. Your basicly putting a water filled moat around your castle!
I remember reading a book from the library when I was young about ants, the scientists keeping them actually had their formicarium setup completely open but had moats around everything to contain the ants, sort of like the inverse of what you are suggesting here ^^
This guy for example has the same idea, he's got his 'outworld' as just an island surrounded by water. Of course, you risk ant casualties, and you need to keep it topped up, but it's an interesting proposition:
I have to ask myself what the benefits of this are. I guess the climate is much more natural and fresh due to the open air, and it's much more sort of... hands on xD
very cool. i have been pondering ideas on how to make an escape deterrent more elegant, and this is perfect. how did i never think of a moat?
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Yea they have survived so long because they have the ability to adapt to .most anything.Tommy13 wrote:She was in a normal test tube setup and they at past the cottonooper01 wrote:Really!? How did other ants get to your queen? What type of setup was she in?
MadVampy
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Name is also Mike but please don't confuse me with Mikey Bustos, two different people.
Keeper of Solenopsis Ants.
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Name is also Mike but please don't confuse me with Mikey Bustos, two different people.
Keeper of Solenopsis Ants.
Re: Ant Invasion
well that great but one exception. Fire ants can cross water by building a raft. So that set up wont work with fire ants. But in other species I think its Great!
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