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[Solenoqueen]

I did an oopsie. My Novomessor cockerelli normally decimate anything I put in their cage, so for fun I put in a slug from a pesticide free area to see if they’d eat it. A week has passed, the ants don’t care, and the slug has been vibing inside of the main chambers of the THA fortress. Not that I mind the slug so much, for he is just vibing, but it’s trails fog up the formicarium glass from the inside. The colony has about 40 workers, and they’re all ferocious, can climb, and are always angry. Is there a way I can clean their formicarium?

[OhNoNotAgain]

I've been asking Mack about getting a replacement glass. That way I could theoretically 

1. refrigerate Fortress until ants slow down

2. slide off old glass

3. slide on new glass without leaving much gap with the old glass

 

If you want to remove the slug though you'd probably have to outright lift off the glass, at which point if you had a spare you could swap or something.

[ANTdrew]

Dang, that’s really bad. I hope you can get it out. What if you try the old beer trick? Apparently slugs will drown themselves in beer. Maybe put a bottle cap full of beer in the outworld to try trapping it? You might get some tipsy ants, too, though.

[Temperateants]

I did an oopsie. My Novomessor cockerelli normally decimate anything I put in their cage, so for fun I put in a slug from a pesticide free area to see if they’d eat it. A week has passed, the ants don’t care, and the slug has been vibing inside of the main chambers of the THA fortress. Not that I mind the slug so much, for he is just vibing, but it’s trails fog up the formicarium glass from the inside. The colony has about 40 workers, and they’re all ferocious, can climb, and are always angry. Is there a way I can clean their formicarium?

First of all, why didn't you prekill the slug? (I'm not an expert on slugs, I don't really know if just freezing them works) Seems kind of cruel to just throw a wild one in a colony full of angry ants. Also, slugs are sticky and wet, so the weird frog and trails is pretty much guaranteed, and it might be too sticky for ants. 

[Antkid12]

Slugs are tricky to kill, even for ants like drivers, usually ants will get stuck in the slime.

Edited by Antkid12, May 26 2020 - 7:41 AM.

[ANTdrew]

Slugs are ignored by ants because of their thick slime coating. That’s basically their only protection. I’d never feed them to my colonies.