found my snake

I didnt close the lid as well as i thought about 2 weeks ago on my boys rubbermaid,and he decided to go exploring.I noticed later that night he was gone and ripped apart the room,but no sign of him.
I figured he may have gotten in the crawl space behind the stairs thats full of lumber and junk and would turn up around the freezer compressor or furnace to keep warm or around the rat cages to get some food,so every night before bed id get a flashlight and look around.Well tonight as i was looking around i smelled something rotten near some old hamster cages behind the stairs and it seemed to be coming from a pile of planks on the right of them-i moved a few piles and found him upside down and dead.I think since he was sitting on cold cement the food in his gut went bad and he couldnt do much about it.
Ive never had a snake die and now i feel like crap and cant sleep so i thought sharing this stupid mistake might make me relax a bit.
thaks for reading.

Man, it happens sometimes... Everyone is gonna experience an excape a few times, I have. Some of us get real lucky and find them within hours, some don't. They're expert hiders. But that must suck anyway...

I am so sorry to hear about your boy,
hang in there, our thoughts are with you.

awww, I'm so sorry :( It sucks to lose a snake, I hope you feel better and don't beat yourself up about it, they're expert escape artists.

My boy escaped in December and was gone for several weeks... my sister found him covered in burns at the bottom of her closet. Escapes suck, but they're unfortunately bound to happen to everyone.

I'm so sorry!

I'm sorry. That's awful. I have one missing right now and I hope I find him before he's dead.

Im sorry also, if only they knew how dangerous it was outside of there enclosure by themselves. Hopefully you learned something though, and can keep this from happening again...

Sorry to hear.
Keep your head up
Rusty

That is very sad news, I'm so sorry. :cry:

Real sorry to hear that :( , good thing to do I think, is drill holes through the lip and lid of the rubbermaid (about 3 on each of the longest ends,namely the back and front) and than just run a screw through each hole and tighten it with a wingnut. Than go out and get yourself another snake and unless he comes with a welding torch he aint getting out of the enclosure. Dont give up on the hobby just make those little adjustment wich will cost you next to nothing (just some srews and nuts) and jump right back in, much better prepared this time. :D

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Hopefully you learned something though, and can keep this from happening again...

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ya im pretty sure he wont be escaping again anytime soon. :(

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Than go out and get yourself another snake and unless he comes with a welding torch he aint getting out of the enclosure

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Well i still have his intended girlfriend alive and doing really well.They were a pair of 100%het albinos,so not super easy to go grab another one.
i think i will try bolting the cage shut.

wow, man im sorry. that sucks. escapes really happens to everyone, sometimes things just dont turn out as good as other. sorry about your loss. i suppose a het wouldnt be so easy to replace. at least you still have your female. good luck with her. -Mike

I am sorry for your loss. Double hec triple check the lid next time mate! Good luck with your Herping.

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Well i still have his intended girlfriend alive and doing really well.They were a pair of 100%het albinos,so not super easy to go grab another one.

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I hear ya. My missing guy is a 66% poss het albino. Fortunately he left his clutchmate behind. Maybe we could work something out next season if I don't have a mate for him by then.

How awful...stay strong!

I am really sorry to read that; I know how it feels. My first BP, a fiesty little female that I got a year ago last Nov, got out on us a few months ago becuz a friend of mine did not close the cage right. She was found by us a week later, frozen in the floorboards of our basement. We had looked for her for days in the basement, which is a frigid dirt-floor affair, and not found her. But that morning we did, and she appeared freshly dead, and I honestly cried for an hour about it. Here's a piccy of my beloved "*****.".... She had a nippy attitude but never refused a feeding, and was so cute and fat. :(
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/3979ballup.jpg

I'm not sure where you are, or what the cost would be for shipping, but the folks I got Magellan from still have some possible Het albino males. We saw them at the Tempe Reptile show yesterday, and they had at least a couple males still.

Magellan is a possible Het albino, in that, according to the breeders, a couple of his siblings were albinos (they had a real pretty female albino there for sale, but right now, $3000 for another snake isn't in the budget). In that, it's possible he carries the gene, but like so many things in genetics, it's not guaranteed. However, he's healthy, and the folks I bought him from seem to be fairly committed to responsible breeding and selling. As I recall, they only charged $75 for Magellan.

If you're interested in contacting them to see what they might have, and how much to ship it from Flagstaff to your location (if they'll ship), I can give you their e-mail address.