Our first escape!!

It finally happened, we had our first snake escape. It was Dax, our adult male BP, who decided to go world exploring. He has been in a new tank for a couple of months now and apparently figured out a way to slide the screen top open.
I went into the room for something else and did my matter of fact visual check on all of the snakes that I automatically do every time I step into the room. I didn't see Dax immediately, so I looked in the other hide, nothing. I yanked open the closed screen lid and pulled out both hides and the water dish. Empty.
I started looking under things, nothing. Finally I started very carefully moving things out of the room. Then I looked under all shelves. Still nothing. I didn't think he would have been able to get out of the room, and I was just standing there thinking, when he dropped down from a corner of the room and headed under the nearest shelf. I ran over, picked him up, checked him for injury, and put him in a nearby locking tub.
I was mostly concerned about the possibility of one of our cats or dogs finding him before I did.
He is fine, and his top is now secured with velcro straps. After all of that I put him in his newly secured home and he went right into his warm hide for a nap, he tired himself out.
Once was enough, I will be very happy if that is our only escape.

Hi,

Glad you caught him so quickly and that he's ok. :)


dr del

Congrats on the find! You always wonder how they get out until you put them back in the enclosure and they go right back to doing what they did to get out. Then you're like "duh".