I personaly think PTFE is better.. either that or vaseline.
ok this topic has always puzzled me, (ant escapes not PTFE), heres my wonderings..... ants are born to serve and protect the queen, so why do they want to escape in the first place? why would they want to leave her? if they did escape, surely they would come back? we all know they would do anything and everything to protect thier queen, and yet they would escape... :-k perhaps you can enlighten me a little.....
Well in my experience they always return. But they want food and to protect their queen and territory so they often wants to go outside of the formicarium, just to explore. Never heard of them abandoning the colony, not on purpose.
The ants will always scratch some PTFE off, as they try to climb up on it.
I think you are mistaken with talcum. They can not scratch PTFE off.
@ darradar: Well ants like to explore, find better places to live ore better food. It is there instinct, so they always try to expand there territory
You could say you have different class of workers, workers that stay in the nest to take care of the queen and brood, workers that go out for food and scouts who look for new food ore a better living area.
Let is know who you are,
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Thanks !
Ants are greedy things and will always try to control as much land as they can manage, not only as much as they need :roll: .
I think you are mistaken with talcum. They can not scratch PTFE off.
"Scratching off" in the sense of making very fine scratches to the PTFE surface. However, im not sure about this.