Fire ants in enclosure

[DoctorPotterWho]

I read on this forum, an older thread, that it was safe to use this stuff https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JG77IUI/?tag=exoticpetnetw-20 around the outdoor enclosure, but it looks like that only kills common household ants. We have vicious demon spawn fire ants. They seek and destroy. I've been searching for their mound, but can't find one anywhere. Are those bates good on fire ants? I want them to suffer. Joking, but not joking.

 

[dmmj]

for ants I use dichotomous Earth it's good for anything with an exoskeleton basically

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

~ Grits

 

[ZEROPILOT]

D/A wont be effective here in south Florida because it rains every day right now.
I treat my yard with fire ant granules and treat the enclosure itself with ant bait/poison inside glass mayonaise jars with small holes drilled in the tops and hidden inside the pen. These are water resistant and can't harm the tortoises.
After a few months, I was able to make my entire yard fire ant free.

 

[DoctorPotterWho]

~ Grits

Thank you!! Grits - Good for us, explosive for ants. haha

 

[DoctorPotterWho]

for ants I use dichotomous Earth it's good for anything with an exoskeleton basically

Thank you! =)

 

[DoctorPotterWho]

D/A wont be effective here in south Florida because it rains every day right now.
I treat my yard with fire ant granules and treat the enclosure itself with ant bait/poison inside glass mayonaise jars with small holes drilled in the tops and hidden inside the pen. These are water resistant and can't harm the tortoises.
After a few months, I was able to make my entire yard fire ant free.

That's a great idea!!!!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Sorry D/E not D/A

 

[Speedy-1]

Hope you can get rid of those devils , they are the one thing I do NOT miss about Florida ! Kill them slowly so they suffer !

 

[DoctorPotterWho]

Hope you can get rid of those devils , they are the one thing I do NOT miss about Florida ! Kill them slowly so they suffer !

Extra slowly!! HAHA

 

[enchilada]

you need this

 

[DoctorPotterWho]

you need this

Hahaha!!!!! Perfect!!

 

[klawran1]

Glad I found this. I'm having the same issue in my Russian's pen. They don't seem to be bothering him, but I'm pretty sick of getting bitten when I go in there and it wouldn't surprise me if he has been bitten also. They must go immediately.

 

[DoctorPotterWho]

Today I poured boiling water on the small mound they were starting. I also used a bait on the outside of the enclosure. I am going to get some solid bates and do the mayonnaise jar trick with the holes up top like @ZEROPILOT suggested and hopefully we will be fine and dandy.

 

[DoctorPotterWho]

Well it worked. I baited around the outdoor enclosure Dumped boiling water on those suckers and drowned out the mound as well. Not an ant in sight today.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Well it worked. I baited around the outdoor enclosure Dumped boiling water on those suckers and drowned out the mound as well. Not an ant in sight today.

It's easier to keep them from establishing a territory than to get rid of them once they have.

 

[DoctorPotterWho]

It's easier to keep them from establishing a territory than to get rid of them once they have.

Yup! I just noticed they moved haha. Going to be getting them to vacate asap. =)

 

[dmmj]

good news but it's a very long hard battle your going to fight.

 

[DoctorPotterWho]

good news but it's a very long hard battle your going to fight.

Thank you! I just did the bait in the mason jar inside the enclosure. My neighbor said we can sync up with baiting the yards so that the ants don't just move to their yard and then come to mine when they treat.