Crap!

Sucess! I took one final looks, with no hope left in me. I was sitting in my torn apart room with Monty when I noticed something. Where the carpet meets the heater it has a lip that curved up, and under it is hollow. This is on the basement floor, so it is not held down, so I knew she could have gotten in via the gap in the corner. So I felt around, pushing down on the lip and kept feeling it was hollow. I hit a hard spot, but since there was no movement I figured it was not her. I lifted it up and there she was! She was feezing cold, had a white power on her(?), and she was being so cute. I think I know how she got out too, but I'll be keeping an extremely close eye on her. I made an image to better descibe where she was for you guys.

https://ball-pythons.net/albums/album01/escape.jpg

Success!!!! I'm so happy for you! I would just put her back on her warm side in her cage and leave her be to get warmed up after her chilly night out on the town :p

How did she get out?

Looking at the lid on Phil's terrarium, I fear it will only be a matter of time until I brainfart and forget to turn the latch to the "lock" position, and he pushes the lid open and goes for a crawlabout.

Looking at it, I keep thinking the most logical system would be a self-latching lid, with something like a springclip that you have to manually hold out of the way to open, and which the lid automatically pushes past to relock when closed. I may just have to make something like that myself to replace the little swing latch that's on there now.

Glad you found your escapee!

man i was reading this thread all worried, then it's such a sigh of relief to see your success. glad you found her man.

The only thing I have to remember to do is push the rubbermaid back in. Otherwise, it is 150% escape proof. I don't have lids on them, the shelf above the rubbermaids are sitting just comfortably on top of them, so I don't have to worry. :) I love rack systems.

Hoomi- you should make something like that and sell it to ProExotics to start distributing it for lots of money. :D Then you can give me 50% of the profit. :D

yaaaaa i'm so glad you found her
thats very good to hear

Whew! I'm SO happy you found her!! :D

It's good to here that the runt is safe. I think I would litterally freak if Monty Joe escaped. I had a hognose escape year's ago, but I didnt freak only because he was wild caught and I knew that he would be ok. That is if he made it out of the house before the cat's found him. But we never found any hint of him so I guess he made it.

Just out of curiosity, was she within about 10' of her cage? :)

I am glad to hear you found her, i was worried reading down the thread, But thanks for the diagram...lol
I'm glad she's back "home"
RUSTY