Protect your pets from ants. Learn some techniques for how to keep ants away from pets. Several of them are presented in this informative article. As any Reptile, Arthropod or Amphibian hobbyist or professional knows, one of the greatest hurdles to be overcome is the battle of the ants. They invade cricket habitats, they go after dead insects in the vivariums of your Lizards, your Pet Tarantula, your Giant African Millipedes and everywhere they can find to make life miserable for pets.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121123041.htm This will also help you protect your prey animals, your exotic pets, your cat or dog. There are several steps you can take to help prevent ants. Hummingbird feeders are also often attacked. Luckily, the ant proof device for hummingbird feeders works quite well. They are available at the pet store.

One excellent way to prevent ant infestation from exotic pets is to make absolutely certain that all live prey is eaten. Remove any that remain before they expire. Be sure to check your pet's habitat frequently and remove all dead Mealworms, Crickets, etc. /www.ca.uky.edu: [1]

Feces will also attract ants. So will Pet Tarantula molts. So will shed snakeskin. So will defrosted frozen feeder rodents. There are times of year when this is worse than others.

Even though proper maintenance of the habitat is primary, there are just some times when the ants will come. This page will give you some tips regarding how to keep the ants away from your pets. If they are in closed habitats and cannot escape the attack, the results can be devastating.

In each step, there will be a different technique for battling the situation. All of them are relatively easy, and the choice is yours. But they are important. Ant attacks can happen in the blink of an eye.

This is probably the most effective way to protect your pet and prey animals from ants, even though the logistics are a bit difficult. The primary victims of ants are the arthropods. For example, if you have a Pet Tarantula that eats Crickets, the problem is two-fold. That is, if you know How to Care for Crickets and are keeping them in a separate enclosure.

First, take something like a baking pan or cookie sheet - a shallow vessel that is significantly larger than the habitat of either your pet or the prey animals. Fill it with water. Place small 2 ceramic bowls, upside down, in the water in the pan. Place your pet's habitat on top of the bowls. Use an extra bowl for balance if necessary. The ants cannot get through the water in the pan to the bowls, so the habitat is safe. If you are learning How to Care for Crickets, it's a good idea to set it up this way at the beginning, to avoid disaster.

Caution: Do not use Terra Cottaflowerpotheaven.com: [1] pots or any unfired clay pot. The water will seep right into it and dry up the "moat" pan.

Even if you do not have double-sided tape, any tape will do, especially duct tape. This might take two people, depending on the size of the habitat. Have one person hold one end of a roll of duct tape upside sticky side out while the other person wraps it tightly around the habitat. When cut at the end, the non-sticky part sticks to the sticky part. So do the ants. If the tape is wide enough, it should do the trick. Thin tape does not work. Thick tape, duct tape or packing tape, does work.

Caution: Avoid using chemicals like "tacky foot" near living creatures.

Make absolutely sure your animal's habitat is free of dead prey creatures such a Cricket or Mealworm. Especially with the slower moving arthropods like Emperor Scorpions, it's wise to remove water dishes and other items from the habitat until the scorpion has eaten. If you do not, there's every possibility that the mealworm will hide out under the water dish until it expires. Dead insects are an open invitation for ants, and your pet misses a meal. This is a lose-lose situation.

Make sure you never leave dead prey, such as a defrosted frozen feeder rodent in your snake or lizard feeding container for a prolonged period. Keep an eye on the process. If your reptile has not eaten the food within a couple of hours, maximum, remove it and try again in a day or two. If you leave the dead prey in with the reptile, ants will arrive. They will swarm the prey, most likely not attack the reptile, but can make its life miserable and it can get badly bitten in the process.

Crickets in particular have a very short life span. Check the cricket habitat daily and remove the dead crickets. The scent of an expired insect will bring the ants running. If you use the moat technique described in Technique #1, this is far less likely to happen, but you don't want to send any unwanted messages. The ants could turn elsewhere, and you don't want them in YOUR habitat!

Dogs and cats are also plagued by ant attacks when ants invade dry pet food or wet pet food.http://www.orkin.com/ants/fire-ant/fire-ants-and-cat-food An easy solution is to take a small bowl of the pet food and place it in a larger shallow bowl of water. The outer bowl of water needs to be large enough to give a good amount of distance between the two bowls, but the right size to enable your pet to easily get to its food.

Check the bowls frequently. If a piece of dry food or kibble falls in the water, it will expand and form a handy raft that enables the ants to reach the smaller bowl and invade the food.