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16-04-2009, 09:16 PM
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Ants and Torts
This might be a stupid question to ask but are torts okay with ants?
I assume they are but i just want to make sure. I have been digging the garden up and putting mesh under the mud so the torts cant dig away but 2 days after doing this a ants nest has appeared inside where the enclosure will be. I put the torts in there to see if the ants annoyed them but even though the ants went on the torts they didnt seem bothered by it. Would a ant biting a tort cause the torts problems? Any help appreciated!
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16-04-2009, 09:39 PM
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Lovely, thanks for the reply. Im annoyed the bloody things popped up after i had done all my digging or i would have tried to get rid of it
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16-04-2009, 09:45 PM
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You should get one of these for them! I got one for christmas/birthday (same day)
Ant Works - I Want One Of Those Very cool to watch, sorry it's off-topic!
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17-04-2009, 11:32 AM
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17-04-2009, 11:43 AM
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Boiling water doesn't work that well to be honest. Ants are super super hardy and will recover quickly.
However, peppermint oil is one things ants hate. We had an ant invasion in our kitchen a few years ago, so we put cotton wool down with drops of peppermint oil along where the ants were travelling and within 2 days all the ants were gone. However, I would only do this when your torts are not near as I do not know if peppermint oil would be OK for them to breathe in as its very very strong
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17-04-2009, 05:34 PM
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I had the same problem, thousand of ants in the hill my female lays her eggs, I chucked my chicken in there for a couple of days (while the weather was poor and the torts were inside) and she managed to munch her way through all of them
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17-04-2009, 09:30 PM
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17-04-2009, 09:32 PM
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i know someone who used to get red ants if he had black ants in their garden and make them fight each other til they were all dead, quite a strange person he was
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