Hello, I have a very big problem. What I'm sure are either Pharohs Ants or Singapore Ants have started nesting in my Terrarium. They ate all the crickets food, they went after the crickets in their separate box and I had to dump all 3 boxes in at once, the ants had already been starting to get into the terrarium, and I don't know if they will hunt the frogs or not. The tank is a child proof reptile tank, 3 feet long, 2 feet tall, 2 feet wide, with 4 fully grown wild caught Australian Green Tree Frogs (3 females, one male). I don't know how to get them out of the tank, they've definately started making nesting tunnels and all. I've been keeping an ear out for the frogs calling if they start going after them, but I'm freaking out a bit. They ate all the frogs food and the frogs foods food, the only safe point for the frogs is the small water container they have, which is a cleaned, reused small ice cream tub. There are more than just a few ants, they already nipped at my frogs when I dumped the ant covered crickets in, hoping the crickets could get away from the ants by hiding in the tank, but I was wrong. What can I do? I even tried putting some salt in for the ants to eat, but they're leaving that alone now and moved from the pot they were nesting in into the terrarium. There's a serious heatwave/drought at the moment, they've even been in our sink, but if they move in I don't think they'll move out at all, and I'm worried those tiny ants might kill my frogs. I've seen ants like that kill a baby kookaburra I'd tried to save once... The best I could do if my frogs were attacked would be to move them into 1 foot long, 1 foot tall, half a foot wide containers... One is being used to breed more crickets, the other is currently empty, waiting as a backup tank for emergencies like this or for my fish tank. If worse comes to worst I could release them again, but with the drought and heatwave, even the pond across the road they've been living in has had a major water level drop. I got them from my neighbor, she found them hiding in her dried up pots, hoping for water... I really don't think they'll go back to the pond, people moved in there, even the kangaroos which sometimes graze on our lawns have been avoiding it, and it's their main drinking source. I really don't know what to do.

There are a lot of reasons I took them in, the drought is so bad, aside from all our trees dying aside from right next to rivers or lakes, there's even a creek in town that dried out, grew grass in the bottom then the grass died. And that wasn't one of the seasonal ones. It's hurricane season and there hasn't been a single one all year, there are two suburbs known for flooding every year and they haven't flooded at all in the last couple of years. My frogs definately aren't eating the ants, nor are they even interested, even when nipped. We've has about 10 minutes of rain in the last 3 months in this area, along with record breaking heatwaves, I really don't want to release them into that... Even the huge evergreens are all wilted and brown in a lot of places... I need the ants out, I know they are capable of taking down frogs, and they might even starve the frogs if they keep eating their food. I know the frogs didn't eat all those crickets, it'd been taking them a few days to get through even one box, let alone 3 boxes. Since they're wild caught I don't know if they'll eat dead ones. I really need help.