A great source of live food for your fish, and you don't even need to go out to collect them, lol.Yep,and a nuisance.....but better to have ants in the house than roaches lol!
A great source of live food for your fish, and you don't even need to go out to collect them, lol.Yep,and a nuisance.....but better to have ants in the house than roaches lol!
I get 2 species of ants getting into my house. The carpenter and the red ant. I don't like either in the house especially the carpenter because they are destructive to wood. They also have a nasty little bite.A great source of live food for your fish, and you don't even need to go out to collect them, lol.
We never used to get infestations of anything, until maybe the past 12 months or so. Our problem is....wait for it....drum roll....FLEAS!!!I get 2 species of ants getting into my house. The carpenter and the red ant. I don't like either in the house especially the carpenter because they are destructive to wood. They also have a nasty little bite.
I do toss carpenter ants in the aquarium.
I've been using this for years effective if I'm not lazy and start spraying around the outside. It doesn't smell and didn't effect my dog. I always spray around base of the floor.We never used to get infestations of anything, until maybe the past 12 months or so. Our problem is....wait for it....drum roll....FLEAS!!!
We have a dog and a cat and no matter what treatment we use on them we don't seem to be making any inroads into the problem.
The issue we have is that when you get infestations such as the one we have the only solution are those flea "bombs". You need to clear the house for quite a while when using those because the "smoke" gets everywhere.
Therein lies my problem, the smoke is deadly to not only fleas, but aquatic life too. I'd be putting my fish at great risk, even if I taped doors up and such.
It doesn't help that during winter the fleas become less active, but our house is red hot due to our woodburner, so they thrive even more!
All I can do is treat the animals and their beds with spray, taking care to keep well away from my tank.
I can't say I'm familiar with that particular brand, I suppose they all vary from country to country. As long as the active ingredient is the same, I believe it's tetramethrin and permethrin, then they should all work, up to a point.I've been using this for years effective if I'm not lazy and start spraying around the outside. It doesn't smell and didn't effect my dog. I always spray around base of the floor.
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Hah!.....my fish likely wouldn't pay them any mind unless they are the big flying cockroach types that we have at work....just the thought of those being in my home,yuck!A great source of live food for your fish, and you don't even need to go out to collect them, lol.
I’ve seen these and decided not to get one. I’m wanting to take a different approach, I just don’t really like the way the sandwich farms look and I think it kinda restarts the ants natural behavior by not allowing them to dig in any direction they want, I’ll have my colony start against the glass and then start wetting the rest for he ground so they’ll tunnel away from the glass.For projects such as these where you want to see burrows and such you would be better off with one of those purpose built contraptions that you see on line. Not saying you have to buy one, as you could make one pretty easy I reckon.
The main body of it, the important part where the burrows are, is very slender. So you can see the burrows no matter how the ants try to hide them. The image below will give you an idea. These things are quite common, and very popular with kids who want to keep worms or ants.
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I had a hive of black ants take over an old dog house, they can definitely do things to wood that I wouldn't (pun intended) want them to do to my houseI get 2 species of ants getting into my house. The carpenter and the red ant. I don't like either in the house especially the carpenter because they are destructive to wood. They also have a nasty little bite.
I do toss carpenter ants in the aquarium.