Crap!

I looked in the 5x2x2 only to discover my little runt is missing! I'm not sure how on earth it could have gotten out! I've just torn apart my room without finding my little baby, dang. My room is located in the basement, if it has left my room I am screwed because the basement is a mass of clutter with endless hiding areas. I'll probly never find it if it got there. This is Maine...it is cold.....the basement is freezing. Crap!

Sorry to hear this. I would'nt give up hope. I would look for him in the warmest possible place's in the basement. Crank the heat up in the room and try to give him a chance.

If I turn up the heat and she is near it, she'll sizzle. BRB, time to tear to room up.

I searched as hard as possible, I do not think there is a snow ball's chance in hell it is in the room anymore.

Then again, I said that when the last one escaped, and when I went to go hold the others I found it in a folder. Lets hope this turns out just as well.

I have had lots of escapes, including one last week. I've always found them within 10 feet of the cage. Maybe I'm lucky, but if I were you, I would concentrate on a close proximity to the cage.

leave out water and a heat pad with a hidebox over it and check it through out the night
that worked well when i lost one of my cron snakes
i found it within the second day in the hide box
sorry to hear this has happened and i hope you find it
good luck!!!

Lets hope I'm lucky, i got the heat craked after checking the heater for her, and I'll be thawing a mouse. the good thing is if she is outside the room then the RI setting in will cause her to wheeze a lot, possibly helping me find her.

I have 2 cats outside my room at all times...

2 cats thats no good at all
my cats would love to get ahold of one of my snakes and i'm pretty sure the cat would win!
again good luck and try the heat pad and hide box thing it worked well for me

Try to look along the walls and wherever there is a dark spot of floor. Is your cage mounted up on something like a dresser? I would definately look behind it and along that entire wall. Snakes like to find a wall or something smooth to kind of direct them where they're going. I've never had an escape, but these tips seem to have helped people in the past. How big is he? I would look ANYWHERE that looks "comforting" to a snake i.e: an open backpack or bag, a shoe, a box, just look EVERYWHERE!!! But I know you are! Good luck!!

Jennifer

Hope is lost. I scoured every single part of my room, every crevice about 5 times. There is no chance it is still in the room, it must have gotten out into the basement. It's luck from now on, lets hope.

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

Oh geez, no cigar Randy. She was 10.03 feet away.

Rusty, sorry I ain't got that news post up yet. I need to create a new topic icon first. I'll do that right no, before I got and clean my room up.

oh, no problem on the news topic, Just thought you'd be interested, Thanks
Again I'm glad you found her!
Rusty

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Oh geez, no cigar Randy. She was 10.03 feet away.

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Smart alec!!!

Yeah, she was close. But who suspects a bp will be hiding under a carpet!

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Yeah, she was close. But who suspects a bp will be hiding under a carpet!

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Yeah, that's where the carpet pythons live....
LOL, I'm such a dork..lol

LOL I was thinkin something along those lines too, your not alone :p LOL

That's really great to hear you found your bp, NOW LET THIS BE A LESSON TO YA!! hehe... ok I'm not a teacher, but no seriously. :)