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Re: That sinking feeling...
i had a young Honduran milk snake (about the size of a bic pen).
She had a lovely naturalistic 20gal long with a LOCKING Lid, that i added velcro strips to at the edges. and she STILL ESCAPED! TWICE!
I found her next to a mattress in that room the first time, and the second time i was lamenting her loss (about 2 weeks later) and there she was crawling around on the floor! A little dehydrated and hungry but fine none the less.
Since i couldn't properly house her, i actually rehomed her. she got a new home with a woman who uses reptiles in educational shows in NY where i used to live. She's doing good last i heard.
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Re: That sinking feeling...
So I voted never and ironicly enough today my new Female Spider escaped out of her quarantine tub. I guess I didn't lock it and found her about an hr later in my a/c duct. She wasn't cold or anything THANK GOD and active to say the least. Today is feeding day as well I wonder if she will eat, hope so seeing it was supposed to be her first time. Waiting like 2 hours to go for it.
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Re: That sinking feeling...
One of my male GTP escaped from his tub he was about 1.5 old and it was feeding day..... The hubby got up to go to work and said..Baby your GTP didn’t eat....and ahhh....his cage is empty... I jumped out of bed so frantic ....wondering where my little worm went too... Looking high and low checking odd places and open spaces...NOTHING..... About in tears I sat on the edge of my bed and looked over and he was coiled up resting on my pillow....
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Time in a bottle....My bottle is empty.... hahahahahahahahahahaha
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Originally Posted by Andrew24
THAT IS FUNNY!!!!!!!
Ha ha ha , that's a hoot
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Re: That sinking feeling...
I've only had one escape and that was last summer when I got my first BP. He was kept in a glass tank and screen top with only a light on top. I woke up to find him gone. My room is in my basement so I spent about an hour combing the entire basement and found nothing. (Mom wasn't happy about any of this) Little Giovanni was finally found up about 20 stairs under a chest in our living room by my little brother.
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Re: That sinking feeling...
one of my big normals got out one night and spent the night curled up ontop of the computer.i woke up checked on the snakes only to find her missing. looked towards the computer to find a ton of things knocked over. sure enough i didnt have to look far she was just sitting there looking at me haha.
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Re: That sinking feeling...
Oh yes...
My little het. ultramel girl got to go on a little overnight adventure last... november, I think? I'd done my usual right-before-bed (3am!) check up and for some reason took her out and messed with her a little before sleep. Well, as luck would have it I'd unknowingly left the tub open juuuust enough for her to squeeze through.
I woke up that morning for the morning check up, saw the tub open from the door... heart stopped. Crap. Ran over to the tub, lifted up her hide... no snake. Lifted up the (very flat; desperation!) paper, no snake.
Now, at this time the snake room was still being set up and was an ungodly mess. Crap EVERYWHERE. I was despairing before the first hour because there was simply SO MUCH junk that she could be curled up in. Luckily, four hours of utterly destroying that room later and she was found - quite content, curled up in the gap between a tub and the rack-wall in one of my spare racks. I'd also checked that rack about four times prior, but she was in the tiniest, darkest corner she could have found. :rolleyes:
Suffice to say, the snakes are no longer messed with passed 10pm. The snake room was also straightened up and "sealed" that same day.
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Re: That sinking feeling...
I forgot to put just one clamp back on my tub one time and, low and behold, that was the spot he squeezed out of. Fortunately, I knew exactly where he was. Under my bed. Everytime I'd have him out slithering around in my bedroom, he'd always try and go under my bed. So I figured that, being the creature of habit that he is, he finally got his chance to see what under the bed looked like! He was wrapped around a toolbox that I had under there. Finding him was the easy part. Getting him out of there was the "fun" part. :oops:
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Re: That sinking feeling...
Forgot to put the binder clip on my lesser's tub the same day that my ASFs decided they were going to chew their way to freedom. I came home to find him coiled up on top of their tank, 2 rooms away, just as the first ASF's nose poked thru the hole they made in the mesh, 2 inches away from his eagerly awaiting mouth. I put him back and fed him the main chewer, as a reward to him and as punishment for the attempted jailbreaker.
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Re: That sinking feeling...
i had my mojave female ball python escape from her tub twice...little bugger
the first time i didn't even notice she had gotten out till i found her in my bedroom freaking out my cats lol....she was perfectly fine...was out less then an hour I would assume
the second time she got out i woke up to find her missing...i freaked...my husband and I looked everywhere all morning and then we both had to go to work. As soon as i was off work i had my friend come over and help me look for hours....nothing
my husband came home and we looked...another 3 hours till we found her underneath the floorboards, behind my kitchen counter.....she was all the way in the back underneath the counters, about 3-4 feet from anywhere i could get my arms to fit
we ended up having to cut through the back of the counter-top to get her....she was fine...i think laughing at me for having to destroy my kitchen to save her scaly butt
her tub is escape proof now....uhg lol
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Re: That sinking feeling...
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Originally Posted by kelevra
Five time escapee. I overestimated my tank. I had a 20g aquarium run with a light that stuck through the screen. The little RB managed to squeeze himself between the screen and the light (never burned) and slid out underneath the plank of wood that I used as weight. Twice in my closet, twice under my bed, once behind the bookcase. Since then, he has had no chance to escape. I have about 20lbs worth of books on his 40g, and the only spot that isn't covered with wood is covered by a screen. This thing is ghetto, but serves the purpose.
Jeez! Maybe you should invest in some cage clips rather than weights :gj:
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