ants in boa cage

Lrptls · 03-22-05, 06:39 PM

at my house we always have a problem with ants, we constantly spray and have ant traps every where but there are always atleast a few around the house at all times. latley has been terrible, i can't have any sort of food or drink out or within minutes it will be coverd by hundreds of ants. they are all over my floor. i even pick them off of myself. luckily they havn't been geting into my mammal cages to eat their food. but there is one cage they are going into and i dont know why. i have a boaphile cage on the floor with a large bci in it. there is nothing in that cage the ants would be going after. the cage is really dark due to no light inside so the only place i can see the ants is on her water bowl. i think they are only entering the cage to drink. but i dont want them bothering her and i'm scared to leave a rat in there for too long (she likes to eat dead rats that have been siting in her cage over night) how can i safely get rid of the ants in her cage?

reptile boi · 03-22-05, 06:50 PM

Hey,

I have been having trouble with ants at my place as well! Luckily i havent found any in any of my animals cages...yet, but i have spotted a few trying to enter my room and theyre HUGE!! Almost 1.5cm long! Anyways, about your boa, heres my suggestion, maybe you could get her cage off the ground and onto a shelf with 4 legs and apply 2" of vasaline on the base of each leg and hopefully the ants will get caught up in the vasaline? People do it for their roaches and it works really well. If it works well on roaches, im sure itll work like a charm on ants.

Thanks,
Ben

Lrptls · 03-22-05, 06:56 PM

huge ants sound scarey, these are regular tiny ants. hopefully we can win this war! lol, i will try geting her cage off the floor i bet that will help. possibly use some ant traps and vasaline and what not. thanks for the help.

clint545 · 03-22-05, 07:15 PM

Of heard of ppl putting each of the cage's legs in a shallow dish of water. That way the ants will drown.

tHeGiNo · 03-22-05, 07:52 PM

The first thing your going to want to do is treat the room itself for ants, using whatever method you see fit - there are several things available at your locale hardware store. As for the cage, aside from picking aside the ones you catch, you can do the trick Clint had suggested - this is what I do to prevent insects from getting into outdoor enclosures in the summer time. This of course would depend on what your enclosure is set on...

Lrptls · 03-24-05, 07:59 PM

i put the cage on a table and havn't had a problem. i do still have tons of ants in the basement but i'm gonna try sprays and stuff. also i sprayd the cage with prevent-a-mite because believe it or not it kills ants very well and prevents them from going back over the sprayd areas which has worked for keeping ants off of other certain furniture i really didn't want them going on. but i'm out of that stuff so i have to use something else to kill the hundreds of others.