Everyone Makes Mistakes! How Did You Find Your Lost Snake??? xD

Haha thank you for sharing your stories bros and gals! :)

Ginger decided to go for a little romp, and was gone for 2 days. We found her underneath the stove, and boy was she lucky that I hadn't used the oven. She also apparently had a snack, judging by the bulge in her belly.


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Probably consumed a rat! Haha rat problem? Call Ginger. Haha xD Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it! Happy Keeping!

Believe it or not i've only had one escape and it happened a long time ago when my columbian red tail was a sub adult and in his old 60 gallon. One day i forgot to latch the screen down with the claps a woke up to find him climbing around my room knocking over everything. He was around 5-6 feet at the time so as i was trying to grab him the rest of him would grab on to something else. At the time i had vertical blinds he grabbed on to the main fixture and knocked the entire thing down. If you've never seen a full set of vertical blinds come crashing down with a boa constrictor attached them it's quite spectacular lol. When i got him back in his tank and everything was said and done my room was so wrecked lol and i just woke up so you can imagine how crazy and fast this all felt. But anyway i'm glad i had a chance to share this story.

Lost one for about 4 hours once, found him underneath the washing machine.

Glad to hear your stories guys! Seems like most of the keepers here lost their snakds because of carelessness xD

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I'm new to snake keeping. Ive had my baby girl Lilo about 3 weeks now. she's in a starter 20g screen top tank from petco at the moment. anyway i was just getting the hang of the humidity in the beginning and over did it with the humidifier (the tank got super foggy) so i opened the lid to vent it and then placed the lid back on and left her alone for a bit (she stays in my room and i try to keep the temps up in addition to her tank cuz its glass and its freezing some nights here in CT) anyway i came back a few hours later and checked on her but i didn't see her, i hoped she found a way to hide really well under the log- nope no Lilo. i freaked out since id had her only over a day! after i stopped and took a breath i was pretty sure she couldn't have gotten under the door so i started carefully looking everywhere i could think of. Found my princess under my closet door (stuck i suspect). learned to always double check the cage is closed, she's a real adventurer I'm sure if the door was open she would have explored further lol.

p.s. i felt so relieved when i read this thread and realised were all human and make mistakes. i really value this site and look up to a lot of you keepers. thanks for all the insight and helpful tips/ anecdotes/ etc!!

oh and love speaker escape pics

I forgot to lock the door to my room and my two year old invited himself in to play with the snakes. And of course he got out the most expensive one own, and of course he didn't put her back and secure the clips.

Didn't have trouble so much finding her; it a small room, she was just fed, and the rest of the house was p cold so she had no reason to leave it. Oh no, I knew exactly where she went to sleep, and that of course was the hardest possible place to get to: behind the big dresser that has my juvie tubs on it, and at the time had board games stashed underneath it. I had to get down on my belly and clear everything out, then reach in and grab blind. Which is the story of how I got my first tag lmao!

Its only happened once and it was my mother that made the mistake with my corn snake, she forgot she had her out and went swimming at the local community swimming pool. Halfway through she remembered and rushed home only to find her 1/2 down the hole for the radiator pipes.