Accident with duct tape

I hope so Gozetec, thanks for your kind words.
If I switch to the rubbermaid setup for now, I am wondering how a heatlamp works with this type of setup? I would like to see a picture of a setup with a heatlamp. I would think the lamp would melt the plastic.

The Do-It-Yourself Rubbermaid Housing has pictures of hat I believe. Very good ones in fact, and step-by-step instructions. :)

It has been a few days now since Arnie's "sticky" incident. he seems fine and moves about as he normally would. I have limited handling sessions to applying the antibiotic creme twice a day and that is it.
Two questions are on my mind.
1) Should I still feed him this Wednesday?
2) What can I expect when he heals fully? Will there be a major scar down his side where his skin was torn off or will things come back as they were? I have had so many different responses on this it is driving me nuts :roll:

I'm glad to hear he seems to be feeling better. I honestly don't think anyone can predict whether he'll have a scar or not. We're not vets and we haven't even seen a picture of how extensive the wound is. Chances are it will scar some...but that's just a guess on my part. And I would also guess that the scar will fade over time and multiple sheds.

As for feeding him on Wednesday....what did the vet say? Again, without having a real understanding of how the wound actually looks, it's hard to say if feeding him will hurt him or not. I suppose you could try and if he's not ready to eat, hopefully he'll just refuse it and no harm done. If you're feeding live though, I would NOT feed him because he'll be extra vulnerable to injury right now.

I will snap a few pics tonight after work and post them. I have switched him back to frozen - thawed so I will try this week and see if he is up to it.
I am going to make one of those Sterilte enclosures that was posted on here. When he gets much larger I will make a nice wood laminate style enclosure for better astetics.

I keep my duct tape on the outside/top of my screen lid. At first I put it on I put it inside, and then a coule of minutes later I saw a piece starting to hang down. I'm glad it happened because I then immediately moved the tape to the top. If it hadn't have happened I might have ended up with the same problem - it just didn't occur to me that the tape might come undone.

Best of luck to you and your BP!

I'm so sorry to hear that, but it seems he will heal just fine. Many people here seem to be ok with duct tape, so don't blame yourself. I had my corn snake get stuck to duct tape about a year ago, it took me three hours to get it off him (with warm water, didn't know about the vegetable oil me neither). He lost one scale only and it didn't even leave a scar. It was nevertheless a traumatic experience both for him and me, and I haven't used duct tape inside my snake enclosures ever since...

Didn't have a chance to take pics last night. I will do so this evening. I was so freaked out when I found him stuck that I didn't take as much time as I should have to free him. All I could think of is he must have been stuck for hours, all night perhaps. I wanted to free him quickly so I spent about 20 minutes removing the tape. He also was moving about a lot and he kept getting other sections of his body caught. It was very stressful getting him loose. I was successful at removing his lower jaw from the tape but one side took scales and skin with it.
I know he will recover just fine, but I will have to wait to see how he recovers cosmetically in the injured location.
Tomorrow I will feed him his weekly frozen-thawed mouse. I hope he eats it like usual.