Shane Visser wrote: Where can I get my hands on some of this chalk Cerat?

I have bought from Builders, Spar, Pick n Pay.
Anyone else used this before that has the name on hand?

Baby powder also works wonders it is just a bit messy also see here www.sareptiles.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28175

We also use blue death. However living on a plot we target the nests, and I also pour the powder around the house containing my tarantulas. Flooding also works. I once had the most exiting opportunity to crank open a bottle of propane with a killer howling flame. I torched the entire colony of migrating ant "the big ones", I think I might have enjoyed it a little to much. Needless to say the ants was crispy/powder and so was some weeds, branches, grass .... well you get the picture.

I also used both the ant traps and the chalk but not one worked for me.

I guess it has to to with the magnitude of your ant problem :dry:

Cerat wrote:

I had almost my entire roach colony destroyed a few weeks ago and went crazy with this chalk drawing imaginary lines around my room and the window frames. No ants have returned so far.

This seems so familiar :laugh:

They are sneaky little buggers with a never say die attitude :S

I found with the chalk that they sacrifice a couple of fellow comrades until they have broken a section through the chalk line and then they really go ape shit :ohmy:

I normally do my matings rehousings anything that can possibly give an opportunity to a running spider in my bedroom that i try to keep poison free.

I really really hate ants I have had numerous roach and cricket colonies destroyed by ants. Its not a pretty site when you walk into your room and there is a huge black line carrying away bits of roach or crickets

I have lost slings, juvies and adult spiders to ants they are viscous creatures with devastation and survival on their minds.

My ant killings have turned more sinister over the years :evil:

You get a type of poison that tricks the ants into thinking it food. They carry it to the nest and feed it to their young and queen. Within a few days, the entire colony is dead. Don't ask me what its called though, I have no idea?! The chalk work well, but it only treats the symptoms, not the the problem. Once the chalk line wears off, the buggers are back.

Ant Trap bro