About five hours ago I realized that Ari had gotten out.

I just moved her to a 40 gallon tank a few days ago and had to custom make a top for it. I thought that it fit so snuggly that Ari couldn't push it up, apparently not. She's still pretty small, only about 500 grams.

We've searched the apartment and cannot find her anywhere. Unfortunately it's a loft apartment, there's no way to separate rooms or even closets. Even worse, my roommates are super messy so there are tons of hiding spaces everywhere.

And there's a cat. I know the cat hasn't harmed Ari since the cat is white.

I've set up a warm hide and put a f/t rat in it for her.

Is there anything else I can do? Anywhere special to look that people have had luck finding missing ball pythons?

I'm well aware that she'll most likely just show up in two weeks looking at me like, "Hey! Where's my rat?" but my roommate is freaking out and expecting to find her today.