ANTSTORE World of Ants

[mate]

How long can stay PTFE on the aquarium and haw wide must be?

[miszt]

depends on the humidity, anything from a few weeks to 3 months +

generally you should make the strip about 2 times the length of the largest ant, so eg for Camponotus, 3cm is a good width

[anthor]

the time until you have to renew it depends on the number of your ants and is variable, you can see if its necessary
wideness: i would say 3 lengths of an ant

EDIT: rmpf miszt was faster

[mvannunen]

@ Anthor:
I couldn't imagine that renewing the PTFE has anything 2 do with the number of ants present in the farm??? :S

[JimmyVe]

Me to, 3 times the larges ant. (just to be sure) Some of my farm have the PTFE on for about 1.5 year without an ant getting trough.

[anthor]

@ Anthor:
I couldn't imagine that renewing the PTFE has anything 2 do with the number of ants present in the farm??? :S

... oh I had talcum in mind sorry^^

[mpir]

I can say from my own personal experience that if the basin is kept quite dry the PTFE will last more than one year. I still have some basins with PTFE that was aplied last year and ants still do not escape.

[Moiser]

So adding live plants to a basin will lower the amount of time the PTFE stops ants?

[JimmyVe]

How do you mean Moiser...

The humidity lowers down the PTFE's live. The higher the humidity the sooner you need to refresh it.

[ratgreen]

I dont fully understand you moiser,but adding more plants would cetainly distract the ants from climbing the glass, but i dont think PTFE is worn out buy ants walking on it.

[Moiser]

I would asume adding live plants to a basin would increase the humidity therefore decreasing the time the PTFE would be effective?

[badman]

plants produce water vapour through respiration and transpiration but not in huge quantities, I suppose it depends on the size/type of plant.

[ratgreen]

yer you are correct. so you could use fake plants, or do you really want real ones?

[Moiser]

I was thinking of putting a Rose of Jericho in a basin, they seem like pretty interesting plants and I imagine they wouldn't affect the humidity too much?

[ratgreen]

well when ever you water them you will be raising the humidity a bit. but its really not that bad, im sure it wont affect the PTFE that much.