Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
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Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
I have been watching the AntsCanada videos for awhile now and am wondering what is the ratio of baby powder and rubbing alcohol used in the barrier to keep ants in their out-worlds? Thanks for your help.
- Batspiderfish
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Re: Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
I've never been too exact about it. The alcohol is only there to paint the talcum onto the edges of the outworld. How much or how little only modifies how runny the slather is -- you don't want so much that the talcum runs down to the floor, but you don't want so little that the talcum becomes a thick paste (too much, and talcum is going to crumble off whenever you bump or move the setup).
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Re: Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
Just basically experiment with it. My first time I mixed it with not enough alcohol and like was said above, it crumbled off. In the end I purchased Fluon which is well worth the price. I paid $35 for it on Amazon and although they are small bottles, it will last at least a year for me if not longer. I recommend it very much myself.
Keeping:
Camponotus subbarbatus
Formica pallidefulva x2
Formica subsericea x4
Lasius sp
Tetramorium immigrans x2
Dorymyrmex bureni
Founding:
Formica pallidefulva
Unknown sp x2
Camponotus subbarbatus
Formica pallidefulva x2
Formica subsericea x4
Lasius sp
Tetramorium immigrans x2
Dorymyrmex bureni
Founding:
Formica pallidefulva
Unknown sp x2
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Re: Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
I realize my first post was a little confusing; too much isopopanol and the slurry will be too runny. Too little isopropanol and you'll get a thick paste that will crumble off.
If you enjoy my expertise and identifications, please do not put wild populations at risk of disease by releasing pet colonies. We are responsible to give our pets the best care we can manage for the rest of their lives.
Re: Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
Also to that, I was wondering what was the ratio of fluon you used and also did you add rubbing alcohol to the ratio?
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Re: Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
the barrier works sooo much better if you omit the alcohol and dab it on dry with a cotton ball.
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Re: Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
Fluon is its own compound, you don’t combine it with anything.
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Re: Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
no, you dilute it in water
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Re: Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
I have never diluted my Fluon with water, nor have I ever seen that as an instruction for Fluon.
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Re: Baby Powder Rubbing Alcohol Ratio?
Just so everyone knows, he recently said it’s a 1 to 1 ratio in a recent video
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