i clean it every other week i make sure the food is fresh and it has water but the ants just keep on commin!! we even tried callin an exterminater but that didnt even help!!!
2006-08-04 05:59:25 · 9 answers · asked by kaylee b 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Scrub the hamster project and start an ant farm.
2006-08-04 06:02:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ants will be attracted to hamster droppings and urine. What you need to do is keep the cage elevated off the ground, like on a table or soemthing. Then you can put two-sided tape on the table legs to prevent them form climbing up.
It worked for me.
You can even try placing Diatomaceous earth around the cage, ti doesn't look great because t is a white powder, but it will kill the ants that try to get in.
Cleaning is the best prevention, maybe twice a week will be better. Make sure that the water does not drip into the wood chips, excess moisture will attract ants also.
BOB KERR has a good idea, placing it in a tray of water works well also.
Hope this helps!
2006-08-04 06:06:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't think hamster food would be so seductive to ants, but I assume that is what they are going after. I would clean the hamster cage, inside and out and the area around the cage (pay particular attention to the path the ants take to the cage) with hot soapy water, to get rid of any of the phermones ants leave as a "trail" for other ants to follow.
Then set up the cage in another area, well away from the first location. Then try putting down ant bait near where you think the ants were entering as well so the ants will take it back to the nest. (Make sure no pets can get to the bait!)
Good luck.
2006-08-04 06:12:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
verify to eliminate uneaten fruit or greens approximately 0.5 an hour when you place them in. otherwise, they'll charm to ants. Cedar chips as antagonistic to pine are additionally meant to maintain bugs away. i think of putting hamster foodstuff outdoors the cage will charm to extra ants. Now, this sounds very stupid yet i've got heard it definitely works. Get a chew of popular chalk like from a black board. Draw a line around the cage. in case you could not...positioned the cage on a chew of fabric or on sheets of shape paper and draw the chalk line on that. Ants SUPPOSEDLY won't bypass the chalk line. it may be interesting to understand if that particularly works.
2016-11-03 21:24:06 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did somthing spill there a while ago? Mabye there is something sweet that spilled under the cage. You sould try to move it in a different place, and see if ants come in the same spot. Try giving you hamster a small little bath in the sink. Mabye something's in his/her fur.If ants still come, then you need to clean out the cage, really well, and if that STILL doesn't work, then mabye you just need to get a new cage. Hope I helped! ~Nicole ;-)
2006-08-04 06:05:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put "ant bait" elsewhere in the house, if you can't get rid of the ants. Put a dish of sugar, or sugarwater, on the other side of the room from the hamster cage.
2006-08-04 06:03:04 · answer #6 · answered by HeatherLyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sit the cage in a large tray of water or better still find their access point to your house and spray with "Raid". It definitely works.
2006-08-04 06:05:57 · answer #7 · answered by bob kerr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get rid of the hamster
2006-08-04 06:02:48 · answer #8 · answered by NBGirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a little bitty thing called CLEANING!!
2006-08-04 07:12:21 · answer #9 · answered by sunbabi1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋