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#1 Offline Unfrozen - Posted June 13 2019 - 8:02 PM

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I want to put my colony in a tubs and tubes setup but at the moment I cannot buy fluon what at home materials can I use to make a barrier

#2 Offline Psythe - Posted June 13 2019 - 8:27 PM

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Pretty sure that baby powder mixed with rubbing alcohol should work.
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#3 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted June 19 2019 - 6:18 AM

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Olive oil. Don’t know if that is enough for tetras though.

#4 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted June 24 2019 - 11:50 AM

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In my experience, olive oil works temporarily but is generally a messy and unsafe way to contain ants. Tetramorium are terrible climbers, so any barrier would most likely work.


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Currently keeping:

 

Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis


#5 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 25 2019 - 8:52 AM

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In my experience, olive oil works temporarily but is generally a messy and unsafe way to contain ants. Tetramorium are terrible climbers, so any barrier would most likely work.

Yeah, I second this. They’re really not that hard to contain. If you feed them a lot, they hardly even try to escape. Fluon is worth it if you can get.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.




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