jail break

monty bl python · 08-28-05, 05:33 PM

i have a 4 ft long tank that i have divied into two sections for my baby balls and they now have broke lose (they some how got the lid off) i looked all over the first night that i found they were gone and i even set a trap. the funny/bad thing is that the next day i found one halfway up my bed room wall (it had climbed up my shotgun and got on to my bulletin board) and i didnt even know that they were that good of climers.

i have read the other post about lost snakes but what i would like to know is youralls success rate such as whoall has lost a snake and if you have found it or not if you have lost a snake please post.

Boakid · 08-28-05, 06:08 PM

I lost my snake twice and found him both times. Check under large objects where it is dark. Put flour under doors to see if they are headed anywhere. They don't usually go too far from the viv so check everywhere. Good luck

cristine · 08-28-05, 06:29 PM

try the attic

Thrush · 08-28-05, 06:47 PM

I have lost my corn a few times, (until I figured out how she was getting out :P ) I found her each time. Check near their cage, underneath everything, inside binders on the floor, etc. Good luck, and don't worry.
Colleen

kronic2005 · 08-28-05, 07:50 PM

that sucks, i lost my foot and a half garter snake once, out of a 30 gallon tank. but i have no clue how he pushed the wooden custom made lid off. i even had trouble getting it off to feed him and stuff... but somehow he manged. My grandma found him 2 days later one morning, right near the front door, all curled up right beside the window along the floor. She was scared so she chased him out of the house with a broom. Now he knows what i feel like... lol. jks. Anyways, hope u find ur snake. And yea, do that thing with flour, ull be able to tell which room hes going to or coming from. Or just wait until night like 3am and run around the house and turn on all the lights and look for him. cuz there nocturnal

Cloudkicker · 08-28-05, 09:45 PM

I lost 2 ball pythons and a young honduran milksnake. The ball pythons(note: tank was located in my unfinished basement) got out because one of them popped the corner of the tank up and the other followed rite behind. They were gone for 2 weeks and I eventually found them both together wedged between thick pipes running along the basement ceiling. How they got up there? I have absolutely no clue. The baby female honduran got out twice the same way (pushed the lid off) and was gone for 3 weeks the first time and 2 weeks the second time. The first time she found herself a nice little hidespot through a hole in my bedroom baseboard. She was caught when she decided to venture too far from her hole when I was watching T.V(family guy probably lol-great show). The second time I don't know where she went, but she was found trying to drink from a can of coke on my kitchen table. Lesson learned: keep all my snake tanks under lock and key. Suggestions to those that lose there snakes: don't look for them! As tempting as it is to rip the room apart, don't, just check the most obvious spots and do a basic check around the room then leave and keep checking every couple hours. Tearing a room apart will only cause them to hide longer. Anyway, those are my experiences with losing snakes. Lets hear some more.
-Andrew-

nita · 08-29-05, 08:30 PM

I found my BP 1 1/2 weeks after she got out because I forgot to latch her lid. She was hiding in the hollow part of my faucet in the bath tub. Warm and humid, popped her head out when I started running the water, guess she didn't like the noise

Rosy-enthusiast · 09-06-05, 11:44 PM

Earlier this year ALL of my baby rosies got out (though I have no idea how) Found them all after about an hour of searching my bedroom and my parents down the hall where i found 2 and the other 3 in mine. Had one rosy disapear for 2 nights before my mom found it on my paint ball gun. Iv had a couple escapees but always found them and always kept my cool on it because i knew they would show up. Also, the bps are bigger then the rosy boas as babies so it wont be much harder, like everyone else said, look everywhere.

monty bl python · 10-15-05, 10:44 AM

today i found the second snake well accualy my beagle did she was barking so i went out to see why and she was looking at the ground when i got over ther there lay a ball python it seems to be fine but i probly take it to the vet and have it checked out thank you all for your help

kajunrebel6923 · 10-15-05, 02:41 PM

i had the other post about my lost b/p. of course i didnt get the responce u got but i am still lookin. i have looked every where. i think i might try the flour trick. i get up everynight and look for him he is about 3 foot. so he isnt lil bitty. i hope he comes out soon i miss him. good luck on findin yours.

SerpentLust · 10-15-05, 03:49 PM

I've lost my Spotted Python a total of four times now.

First two times were when she was young and I knew nothing about snakes, ei. clamping lids. I usually found her within the hour in the same room. Second time, she was in her big tank with a clamping lid but she found a weakness in the lid and got out, found her about two hours later in the closet right beside the cage in my mothers suitcase. Last time I lost her for a total of 20 days until I saw her popping her head out of the heating vent. We blocked all her escape paths minue one so she HAD to come out that one. That escape was from a melamine enclosure, but we had forgotten to lock it and she slid the glass doors.

I also lost a baby colombian rainbow boa. She's assumed dead because my cat was responsible for the loss and I think she ate her. But you never know.

Jenn