HELP: my baby bp crawled into a food scale

I was weighing him, but went to answer the phone for like a minute and came back to him crawling inside >__<

He was also so far in by that point, it was impossible to yank him out.

There also seems to be no way to unscrew this particular food scale and take it apart... Anyone have any advice on how to get him out safely?

http://imgur.com/a/wAPCL

Is the scale big enough to put in his cage? I would put it in his cage and then wait for him to crawl out. When was he last fed?

The scale is a little too big for his enclosure, but he was fed 5 days ago and just pooped yesterday, so he's empty now.

I've been thinking of putting the scale in an air conditioned room and leaving his heat mat over another hide somewhere.

If you have a big enough container, put the food scale in there and try to lure him out with food. I used to heat my frozen mice and rats under a heat lamp (about a foot away from the meal items) and the smell had the snakes crawling out of their hides in no time.

Hmm, I have no mice right now , but getting one tomorrow at the pet store. I'll try that thanks.

This particular bp is also really scared of water, how safe would it be to try to run some water (shallow) through the scale to "scare" him out?

Could you post a picture of where he's at right now?

It's a little hard to see, but he appears to be at the bottom of the scale:

http://i.imgur.com/zcs7r92.jpg

side vide of the scale:
http://i.imgur.com/x3StRmv.jpg

and the top where he originally crawled in:
http://i.imgur.com/5994nkk.jpg

He's about 650 grams and 1.5-2 inches in diameter, feeding on adult mice/small rats, so I'm pretty amazed he managed to squeeze himself in there to begin with >.<

Are those hex-head screws, or rivets that hold the panels together on the bottom? It looks like it's made to be able to take apart, just from the pictures, but it's hard to tell. If so, you just need a hex key (allen wrench) that fits to take it apart.

They appear to be rivets, no polygonal/hexagonal shape, just a round hole.

In that case, unless you can get a chisel and cut them off, all that I can suggest is just what others already said... put it inside an enclosure big enough to be secure, put water in there well away from the scale a hide with warmth underneath to tempt him into going into it instead of back inside the scale, get some food, and wait for him to be hungry enough, thirsty enough, or uncomfortable enough to come out.

I definitely wouldn't run water in it. It may take the better part of a day but eventually he'll crawl out. I would pick up some food for him and try to lure him out with that as well. If he's even a little hungry live prey would draw him out real quick.

UPDATE: I noticed a small structural weakness on one of the corners of the scale and just ended up prying the side off with pliers.

http://i.imgur.com/R8v6050.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Kg4xOPj.jpg

I guess I need a new food scale anyway.. That this guy can't crawl into :colbert:

I have this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Accuracy-Digit...=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
Works great, not terribly expensive and nowhere for a snake to hide! If they outgrow the bowl, just get a bigger mixing bowl and tare it with that on the top. With an 11 pound limit, there aren't many BP's out there that it can't handle.

Lol those pictures are great, especially the first one where just his little face is showing. Absolutely adorable. Now you know, don't take an eye off that baby for a second when he's out of his enclosure. I had the same problem with a tokay gecko when I was sixteen. Turned around for one second with the cage door open and when I turned around he was outside the cage and on the back end. He ended up diving under my dresser and it took two days to get him out (I had a very cluttered room and it was a heavy dresser).

I'm late to the party...but this is SOO how I pictured myself fixing this issues when I read the title. Disbelief, a smidge of oh no!!!!! and then look for something to pry the darn thing apart.

So glad you got him out!! And kudos for finding that weakness!

I'm so glad you got him out okay! I have to say, I got a pretty good laugh out of this, though... Those sneaky buggers, I guess I'm pretty lucky I've never had to pry anything apart to get them out of somewhere they shouldn't be! Haha, glad the little guy is okay, sorry about the food scale though. ;P