Ball python escape

I just went to feed my ball and he's gone! i live with housemates, one is deathly afraid of snakes and i really need to find min soon. Last time i seen him was last night how far could he have gone? also we keep the doors open what are the chances he bolted outside?

If the doors were open, he definitely could have went outside. Especially this time of year with it being so warm. I would check all small, dark, warm places in your house. They can get in to weird places. One of mine escaped a while back, and it was in the back of my oven.

I had my ball escape once. It was in my closet balled up on a purse strap, didnt go to far luckily, but im guessing an open door to nice warmth is hard to resist. Look in all dark places first although have someone start checking outdoors so it doesnt get to far if it got out.

Found!!! Technically not an escape though, he was still inside the tank but manages to work himspef into a tube that i use to deliver water to the bottom of my tank, I guess i need to cover the tube with a screeen before I put it back in.

What kind of a set up do you have? Picture?

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Originally Posted by snakecharmer3638

What kind of a set up do you have? Picture?

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I had an escape a couple of monthes ago...found it wrapped around the motor of my minifridge.

here si the tank, the white tube in the very back right hand corner is what he got caught in, but you cant see it because of the plants. Im going to put a screen over the tube before I put it back in. Do you guys knwo if BPs can get out of tansk with the hard steel tops that practically snap on? thats what I have. http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/f...honTank002.jpg

Nah they shouldn't be able to get out of that, especially if it clamps on. If your still concerned put some books on it or something.

Maybe it's just the picture but that setup looks really humid, more suited for frogs. Is the substrate dry?

its damp but not so much that its really humid, its about 60-70, it was up recently becuase it was rainy here so it was more an atmospereic thing. but thanks I know glass tanks can be hard to get the right humidity but my false bottom set up has kept it perfect!

Wow that looks beautiful! I'm still waiting for my 40 long breeder tank to get here so he'll have good hides instead of news paper and other crap. I put some moss in to help with humitity...

Cool, I was just wondering about belly rot. I don't know enough about it to say that it could happen in that set up. I have just read a lot of different threads on this site and they talk about conditions that are to damp, and how that can lead to belly rot. :confuzd:

as a new owner i pretty much worry about every little thing but I would like to know from a more experienced keeper how the substrate should feel to the touch, i assume bone dry is also no good mines damp enough to be darker in colour but not much more.

I am not an experienced keeper but most use paper towels, aspen, or newspaper. I do not know that you coud tell from the "feel". My humidity runs 75 to 80 in the summer, and that is a bit high, but with aspen and paper towels I don't worry about too much build up, her skin should be fine and no scale rot.

I would be a bit concerned over the dampness level of that setup too.

I don't know how effective damp soil is for a ball python.

If a ball python is stuck on anything even slightly damp for a long period of time, it can cause major scale rot and RI issues because the humidity is too high.

It looks like a pain to clean or tell where the deification is too.

its cocoa soil (the stuff comes in a brick) most people use it from what I can tell but i suppose it wouldnt hurt to scartter a little aspen toabsorm any excess moistere, like saw dust i guess

how do you get heat to the belly?that is some thick bedding!