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I looked up at my snake rack this evening to find ants all over the place. I have moved all snakes and cages out of the room. What should I do now?
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My Critters

6 Leopard Gecko 2.4.0
1 Tokay Gecko 1.0.0
2 Ball Pythons 2.0.0
1 Black Kingsnake 1.0.0
1 Mex Black/cali king hybrid 1.0.0
3 Baird's Rat Snake (Thanks Vadoni!) 2.1.0
***1.0 Loma Alta***1.2Hawkeye 04 stock***
2 Gray Ratsnakes 0.1.1
1 04 Amel Cornsnake 0.1
1 04 Anery Cornsnake 1.0
1.0 Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum

Critters under my care

3 Red Milk Snakes 02
2 Mexican Milk Snakes
2 Black King snakes 03
2 Mexican Black/California King Hybrids
11 California Kingsnakes
1 Eastern Kingsnake
11 Graybanded Kingsnakes
2 Baird's Rat Snake
1 Yellow Rat Snake
1 Everglades Rat Snake
25 Corn Snakes
2 African house snakes
1 Green Tree Python
2 Boa c. constrictor
1 Mottled Rock Rattlesnake

a horned lizard or an anteater.
Sorry, couldnt resist. I really have no useful anti-ant info. I have problems at my house in the spring too. Go buy some traps that kill back at the nest, rather than right in the trap.
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Tom
TCJ Herps
"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

I wasnt intending to find any ant control websites, but I found this link. I havent even really read it, but thought I'd pass it on to you for review...

http://www.fastpestcontrol.com/ant_control.html
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Tom
TCJ Herps
"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

Since your snakes are out and clear from the cages, i see no potential harm in spraying with somehing like ortho indoor and perimiter ant and bug killer. I wouldn't spray it directly on the cages, just spray it around where the ants are coming in from. then go around the entire exterior perimeter of your home and spray it. this will be a good time to change your substrate - get rid of it all before you spray, give it a few days to outgas, clean out your tanks very well, then put fresh substrate in and let the snakes come back home.
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-Chris

0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat
1.0 Black Rat
0.1 Vietnamese Blue Beauty
1.0 Green Tree Python
0.1 Texas Bairds Rat

The educated are the few. The uneducated are the masses.

North American Rat / Corn Snake Care Sheet

Use Terro brand any killer. The ants will bring it back to the nest and kill the whole colony. You just put a drop of it on a pc of cardboard and let them suck it up. You won't need to use any harsh sprays or anything that way.

OOPS...I meant Terro ANT killer.... lol