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[Shifty189]

Hello all tropical ant keepers. I am just getting to the point where i'm going to move my ants into a setup with an outword. but i'm starting to get concerned about the random lizards in south Florida. I didn't think about it much until last night when I went into my outside laundry room I mean Ant room and found a large gecko in there. Now, I have make some preparations for this and have some "Butterfly net" fabric that I have glued onto my make shift outworlds (large Tupperware bins)

 

Anyways any thoughts would be appreciated.  

[Martialis]

Just keep a lid on it.

[sirjordanncurtis]

Maybe find a way to make sure geckos don't go into your laundry room? (Instead of just your formicarium)

[Canadian anter]

How many lizards are in your house so that they just "fall" into formicaria?

[Shifty189]

Keeping a lid on is the only the only thing I can think of. As far as securing the room, it’s not really an option. The roof isn’t exactly sealed to the walls. I think it might be something about hurricane proofing the building, but I don’t know.

[Shifty189]

How many lizards are in your house so that they just "fall" into formicaria?

It’s rare for a lizard to be in the house, but my ant room isn’t in the house. The ant room is attached to my porch, and there is a family of 20 or more geokos that live on the porch, and no way to keep it lizard proof

[123LordOfAnts123]

Lizards and geckos here normally have little interest in worker ants.

Otherwise just focus on securing the ants.

[T.C.]

I feel like I need to see a picture of this room.

[Shifty189]

i might take a photo, but i promise you would be very underwhelmed. Just a laundry room attached to a porch.