Escape poll

If you've had an escapee, what kind of enclosure did they escape from? I'm just curious. Escapes are my worst fear.

I forgot to put the lid back on, but she only went behind the tank. Small adrenaline rush...

It seems like glass tanks are far in the lead so far.

It would be nice to hear how the escape happened, smart snake, lid left open a crack, bin left pulled out a little bit etc. etc.:)

RBI 4 tub 28qt rack. I cleaned her tub when I got home VERY tired after work because she had gone to town after not pooping for a while.

I let the tub slightly open to let the water dry out, but I was so tired that I felt asleep. Woke up next morning and she had slide the tub open and she was gone. She still missing...

Didn't close the lid all the way, my fault:P

Seems to me like you first need to find out what percentage of each enclosure everyone is using. If one type of enclosure is used by the majority of people, then that type might have the most escapes. Or, if there are the least escapes by the enclosure used by the majority, then it would lead one to believe that is the best type to prevent escapes... Confused yet? :)

I have had one BP for seven years -- he escaped out of my custom enclosure the first day I had him (I left too much of a gap on the screen convering the top for the light fixture). I fixed the gap, and have not had an escape since.

I have been using a new custom enclosure for the last year, with zero escapes, and a 32 qt tub with lid for the last month with zero escapes.

Glass tank with lid. My fault but he didn't get far I was right there both times he did it. I was doing something thinking I could quickly leave the lid cracked.. NOT..
Both time they were recovered and now with the rack system I have had no escape at this time.

crap, didn't know the poll was multi-choice. i had a snake escape from a glass tank with a metal mesh lid. that, however was my boyfriends fault and it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't took the thermometer from Sage's cage and moved it to the incubator. he didn't press the lid back down firmly enough, so she was able to squeeze through.

my other "escape" happened with a 6quart bin with a lid, not in a rack. it was sitting on top of my dresser along with 3 or 4 other bins. however, i'm not 100% sure the snake actually escaped. i was going to feed the snakes, and noticed one of my less-than-yearling corns wasn't in his bin! however, it's possible he was hiding somewhere within the bin (toilet paper tube, substrate)and zipped away without me noticing. i find it hard to believe he was able to push up the lid. i ripped apart practically our ENTIRE room, unstuck the heat tape from the rack, rooted through both laundry baskets, pulled out all the drawers, basically looked everywhere for him. i got real lucky and found him zipping towards my bathroom. and MAN they are QUICK when they are running away! needless to say i'm still not sure weather or not he actually escaped, or i missed him in the first place, and THEN he escaped while i was stirring up everything in the room. those bins have heavy photo albums on them now, just in case!

Glass tank with sliding screen lid. I had one BP escape because my husband had an "airhead" moment - he was changing the water, ran out to check out why everybody was screaming at the basketball game on TV, sat down to watch it and didn't remember he never closed the lid until morning! We found her in the small crawlspace under the sink - we had to break the bottom part of the cabinet to get her out.

We had the hognose escape once because my son lost the lock to the cage and thought it will be fine for a few minutes while he goes hunting for the lock. By the time he found the lock, the hognose was gone! We found him 2 days later strolling through the kitchen floor. That was the scary one. We thought he was truly gone! He's such a little guy compared to the bp that he could go inside more spaces and be gone forever!

I'm thinking about it now and I'm wondering if the hognose has gotten so used to people that he's not scared to "walk through" the middle of the kitchen in broad daylight with all of us around anymore. Hmm...

By the way, these experiences led us to believe we are not good enough "parents" to own a giant.

First and only escapee was last year. She was 3 months, and I was really really tired when I went in to check on them all.
She was in a rack, and I left the bin open a little and didn't notice until the next morning. We found her 3 days later, she was fine.:)

If you secure all tanks, and don't do stupid/silly things (like I did) then no escapes should occur at all...but I believe a glass aquarium is the most common for escape.

I voted "Glass tank with screen lid". It was my fault though. They are the sliding screen lids. The tank has two of them. I forgot to put one of them back on the tank after a routine clean and water change. Thankfully my boa just crawled up and chilled on top of the tank. I now have a sign leaving the room to double check the lids.

I haven't had an escapee from the cage, but last night, she almost got away from me. I was sitting on the couch with her. Before I knew it, she was halfway behind me/through the couch. She had slithered back behind the cushions, gotten under the frame piece, and was just about out of reach of keeping her from getting inside the couch. I don't know what I would have done then...:O

Sure had me mad and scared, too. I didn't think I'd get her out without hurting her. All turned out ok, though.:gj:

it was a glass tank but it was our fault. we had these wimpy locks on that we got when our cal king was a baby. like you know 6 inches 7 inches long and she couldnt reach the top of the tank. welll a year went by and she was about 3 feet long and she popped the corner of the lid open enough to get out.

lost her for about 2 months and found her curled up in a shirt.

now we have tighter stronger locks and no more escapes.:snake:

Slid out a bin at the top of a double-wide rack one morning, and when I went to slide it back in, it stuck. Shoved on it a bit, looked back in there, and there was a big old girl.
Took me a few moments to figure out who she was. lol
Seems I had left a bin at the bottom of the rack open a crack the previous night, somehow, and she'd gotten out and went up into the shelf of the double-wide, between two bins.

I've had two.

1st was in a glass cage with a screen lid. A curtain fell down and punched a hole in the top, I was lucky to catch the corn in the act of going through it, then quickly pached it up and had no problems since.

2nd time was a baby carpet python out of a free standing tub. It was kinda a crappy lid design but I bought it for its height and he stayed in it for over six months. Lucky he just decided to cosy up to the UTH underneath the tub.

I'm am absolutely anal about shutting lids and tubs up properly. I even have little stopper feet I shove under the corners of my tubs, JUST to make sure no one can squeeze out.

My male really didn't like his 34qt tub and pushed so hard on the top that he actually popped the latch right open. Luckily I was sitting right there on my computer, and heard it. Needless to say, we got him a bigger tub and one that LOCKS.

I just recently had a female escape from a tub with lid that she had lived in for 8 months. Luckily I found her on top of another males tub, so I didn't have to search for her.

My last escape happened during tub cleaning when I allowed our lil black pastel to roam the couch while his tub was getting cleaned.
The phone rang and got me distracted for a couple of minutes till I remembered I was in the middle of....Oh crap, snakes gone....argh....I searched and searched to no avail.
3 days later he was strolling across the linoleum by the front door cold as ice :(
To quarantine he went for 30 days to make sure he didn't get sick in his 3 day venture. Luckily he didn't.
Lesson learned, no answering the phone while snakes are out and put snakes into a tub or snake bag while cleaning their home.

I was away on vacation, and the pet sitter forgot to put the lid back on after changing the water in the water bowl.

Glass tank escape due to human error.

I voted glass tank with screen lid. That is the reason I got my corn snake from it's former owner. Now there is a very heavy rock on the screen.

My three have all been with a corn snake in a tank with a screen lid. The first time my friend left the rocks on top of the screen off. The second time, I forgot to clip the tank shut (used tank clips). The third time my brother forgot to clip the tank shut.

My "escape" was similar to others where it was my fault and not that of the enclosure.

Pulled out a bin from my rack, fed my Spider a f/t and turned my back to check on another without closing the bin. She decided to run rather than eat and ended up climbing two bins up and wedgeing herself behind the other tub.

Looked around frantically before seeing the other tub sticking out ever so slightly.

Gavin

It seems to be the case with most of the escapees from a rack system.. but I just got home from work and was tired and did not push the tub back all the way! The next day I was checking on them and she was no where to be found!!:(:rage: and since the temps out side of our reptile room were running in the mid 70's I figured she was going to be in a place that was dark and warm, so I decided to take apart the washer and dryer which was only a few feet away, and luckly when I was taking the dryer apart and heard my bay girl talking to me:) !!!!!BUT!!!!!!after I took it COMPLETLY apart she was not there:confused:so I left the washer and dyer apart for a few days checking them every hour AT LEAST never finding her! Needless to say the clothes started to pile up and the wife was on my case so I checked everything with a fine tooth comb and saw NOTHING but low and behold if something can go wrong it will! SO....!!! I put everything back and put a load in the washer and was going to take out the load and there she was! SHE WENT A FULL CYCLE IN THE WASHING MACHIME WITH SOAP AND ALL:O:(

2 weeks later she is eating again and putting on weight...!:D The moral of most ofd the stories TRY not to do your feedings when you are dead a tired, plan accordinglg:gj:

When I had mine in tanks, my one girl got out from me not closing the screen all the way until it locks so she slide it open! Found her on top of my bike tire shortly after I saw that she escaped! It was a scary moment!