Fire ants

[brian barnett]

i just made a new outdoor enclosure for my two babies, for the nice days. Question is, is there a sulcata safe fire ant poison, such as an organic formula I can treat the new enclosure with?

 

[mike taylor]

Nope . You can boil water an pour it on the ants .

 

[dmmj]

dichotomous earth food-grade it's not a poison it's millions and millions of tiny exoskeletons that cut the ants and kills them. I also use boric acid which is safe as a trap bait that I mix with honey but I don't know if it'll work on red ants it works great on black

 

[Yvonne G]

You can put the poison all around the outside edge of the habitat, but they can still burrow under. If you see an ant mound inside the enclosure, dig out a tiny valley in the middle of it and pour poison slowly down into the ant hill. Then cover it up with a big piece of slate or something heavy that covers it totally and place something heavy on it so the tortoise can't move it.