Ants

[brownie64]

Just curious I have got 15 new Jackson babies, and a house full of what I call piss ants. May be a stupid question, and if it is I'm sorry. Can you feed piss ants to the baby chams they are the perfect size? If someone could take the time to help me with this question I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for your time.

 

[Rodcham]

Not sure what a piss ant is lol. My chams don't do ants. Heard of them eating termites though?

 

[MelissaB]

I wouldn't feed them ants. I'd go get fruit flies or pinhead crickets.

 

[LookinRound]

Not sure what a piss ant is lol. My chams don't do ants. Heard of them eating termites though?

I'm guessing he is referring to sugar ants? Maybe he can confirm

 

[reptoman]

Most ants are venomous so I would definitely not try and feed them to anything but a horned lizard which is specially adapted to that diet. Ants can also be dangerous to pets much larger than themselves in large numbers. Stick to fruit flies and tiny crickets for feeding babies.

 

[Lazy Boy]

I'm sure we have all seen the video or the ants picking the chameleon body clean. So not what I want to come home to.

 

[xraygirl]

Piss ants in the south means a (red) fire ant, not sure if that means the same up north though!

 

[brownie64]

I know there not fire ants, sugar ants look like it to me from what I see on the net. They only get about the size of a fruit fly, and they don't sting. I won't give them any it seems way to big of a risk. I bought two cultures of fruit flies which is all they had, but they have devoured all of them in just two days, and now I'm stuck waiting on the maggots and pupa to hatch. My pet stores don't seem to have any pinheads until Monday hope it don't hurt them to wait that long. I have put some tomato in the tank to draw wild fruit flies but for some reason it has drawn very few. If I didn't need them the house would be full not to mention their enclosure! Thank you for you quick response and help. I didn't think it would be safe but I thought I would ask. I seem to have an abundance of them can't seem to get rid of them actually.

 

[fluxlizard]

piss ants = tiny little ants. I'm in the south and that's what we call them, but we don't have fire ants here (where I am).

Your chams probably won't be interested. Maybe they will sample one or two , but they won't feed on them much beyond that, if they even will go that far. They have gotten into my baby cham cages outdoors before and never seem to interest the chameleons.

If you keep dart frogs, on the other hand, when we would get a swarm of piss ants in the past, our dart frogs loved them.

 

[xraygirl]

I know there not fire ants, sugar ants look like it to me from what I see on the net. They only get about the size of a fruit fly, and they don't sting. I won't give them any it seems way to big of a risk. I bought two cultures of fruit flies which is all they had, but they have devoured all of them in just two days, and now I'm stuck waiting on the maggots and pupa to hatch. My pet stores don't seem to have any pinheads until Monday hope it don't hurt them to wait that long. I have put some tomato in the tank to draw wild fruit flies but for some reason it has drawn very few. If I didn't need them the house would be full not to mention their enclosure! Thank you for you quick response and help. I didn't think it would be safe but I thought I would ask. I seem to have an abundance of them can't seem to get rid of them actually.

I would use a piece of fruit! The sweet odor should attract them.

 

[brownie64]

I would use a piece of fruit! The sweet odor should attract them.

I plan to get strawberries tomorrow.

 

[Rodcham]

A piece of banana attracts plenty fruit flies. I sometimes put some banana outside in a container and in an hour or two have plenty to feed. Winter obviously not so many around.