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Started By MegaMyrmex , Mar 18 2020 7:40 AM

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#1 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted March 18 2020 - 7:40 AM

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My camponotus chromaiodes colony has been able to scale the baby powder barrier I have for them till the point where it’s getting kind of worrysome as to how easily they can escape. What other slippery substances can I use? I don’t have access to any fluon or anything like that so that’s out if the question.

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

#2 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 18 2020 - 8:28 AM

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Well, you can get fluon from Tarheelants: https://tarheelants....q=fluon&submit=

Besides that, I have no idea

Edited by Thunder_Birds, March 18 2020 - 8:29 AM.

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#3 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 18 2020 - 11:14 AM

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Sorry to say, but I don't think there is any viable alternative to fluon if you seriously want to keep ants. I just saw a Aus Ants bottle for $11.99 on Amazon. That's cheaper than bottled water or hand sanitizer at the moment.

"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#4 Offline Temperateants - Posted March 18 2020 - 12:31 PM

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What about the 35.99 Byformica fluon? Also, does anyone have experience with that 11.99 dollar one? I have a founding queen of myremica rubra, and I need a brarrier also.

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#5 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 18 2020 - 12:39 PM

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I use the byFormica. It’s pricey, but it’s enough for several years of use.

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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#6 Offline Temperateants - Posted March 18 2020 - 12:42 PM

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nice!

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#7 Offline rbarreto - Posted March 19 2020 - 3:29 AM

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Sorry to say, but I don't think there is any viable alternative to fluon if you seriously want to keep ants. I just saw a Aus Ants bottle for $11.99 on Amazon. That's cheaper than bottled water or hand sanitizer at the moment.

Rubbing alcohol and talcum powder is also a viable barrier.I've actually seen it work in cases fluon doesnt.

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#8 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 19 2020 - 1:16 PM

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I use talcum and rubbing alcohol as well

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#9 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 19 2020 - 2:33 PM

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I just use plain baby powder.

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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

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