Escaped BP!

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Originally Posted by 200xth

How many times has this happened?

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Twice before with my roommate. She was his until he left her to fend for herself. I put her in a cage with a bolt lock and never had this problem but it molded so I switched to a glass tank with a screen top that I pock down and she still got out. This is the first time for me. The previous times she was gone for 3 weeks and 3 months.

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Update: still no snake. Trying love bait in one of her favorite places of the porch. Other than that, just a waiting game

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Originally Posted by SCWood

Update: still no snake. Trying love bait in one of her favorite places of the porch. Other than that, just a waiting game

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It took me 16 hours to realize that "love bait" is a typo for live bait. Lol I feel slow, but anyway good luck. You say there's a gap under the door? How big is the gap and how big is the snake?
Also maybe he or she got into the house?


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BPs are timid snakes.....they typically don't cruise around looking for a good time. Someone once told me that a BP will rarely travel more than 10' from their enclosure. This has been the case every time that Ginger has escaped.

My advice is to check and recheck every box and tall place where she could travel. Ginger likes the top of the closet next to her enclosure, as well as behind the books in the bookcase. She may be right under your nose, but is curled up small.

Good luck! Btw, I've also heard of spreading flour around and checking it for "snake tracks".


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Originally Posted by pbyeerts

Good luck! Btw, I've also heard of spreading flour around and checking it for "snake tracks".

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I too have heard this. Sweeping later would be worth it IMO

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Originally Posted by pbyeerts

BPs are timid snakes.....they typically don't cruise around looking for a good time. Someone once told me that a BP will rarely travel more than 10' from their enclosure. This has been the case every time that Ginger has escaped.

My advice is to check and recheck every box and tall place where she could travel. Ginger likes the top of the closet next to her enclosure, as well as behind the books in the bookcase. She may be right under your nose, but is curled up small.

Good luck! Btw, I've also heard of spreading flour around and checking it for "snake tracks".


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I will try again. There's not a lot of places she could be I'M unless she went inside the freaking wall 😵

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Originally Posted by Citrus

It took me 16 hours to realize that "love bait" is a typo for live bait. Lol I feel slow, but anyway good luck. You say there's a gap under the door? How big is the gap and how big is the snake?
Also maybe he or she got into the house?


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Here is the door and gap http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...0c926e9d5d.jpg
And the way we lock the tanks http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...185b47f62e.jpg

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I once found my ball python under the couch's pillows because of the warmth that they give.

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Originally Posted by SCWood

I will try again. There's not a lot of places she could be I'M unless she went inside the freaking wall 😵

Here is the door and gap http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...0c926e9d5d.jpg
And the way we lock the tanks http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...185b47f62e.jpg

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You need better tank locks, those are the wrong kind. They make what they call heavy duty ones. Those are what you need. Zilla makes them, Amazon carries them.

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Originally Posted by Sonny1318

You need better tank locks, those are the wrong kind. They make what they call heavy duty ones. Those are what you need. Zilla makes them, Amazon carries them.

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When she comes back she will return to her old cage which is this http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...6199d5df7d.jpg sorry it was on its side for storage. Then we are buying the iguana a larger cage and putting Eden in the iguanas current cage http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...d4b8ceb93b.jpg. We will probably make modifications to turn it on it's side and get rid of the wire.

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How big was the snake? That gap looks big enough for a snake to slip under. My pastel squeezed through the gap between her tub and the top of my rack even though it was less than half her width. I found her curled up in the corner of the space under my rack.


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