Hoped it would never happen, had my first escape today

[Anthony Renna]

I was trying out an animal plastics rack that was given to me in a trade, well the tubs had about a half inch gap that i thought was too small for my pastel to squeeze through. Turns out it was too big a gap he got out , lucky for me I walk into my room and he had just crawled up the rack to the higher level and was hanging out he has since been put in my regular escape proof rack .
It's funny when I walked in he was looking in the spiders tub as if to either make fun of him like haha I'm out here or to say hey come join me, then I said "Houdini what are you doing?" he turned to me as if to say oh crap I'm busted.
So happy he was in plain sight and have taken proper precautions to make sure it never happens again

[devildog_dk]

1/2" is way too much gap for any BP. If they can get their head through it they can start to warp the tub enough to get out.

The racks I've built for our collection have about a 1/16" gap at most, but i've never measured it exactly just going off the thickness of 2 blank DVDs i used as spacers to build them.

[CD CONSTRICTORS]

I have 3 C-Serpents racks and they are quite tight fitting so there is not enough gap for even a hatchling to escape out of a gap between the tub and shelf.

I have however had a few larger bp's... 850g Pinstripe and a 825g Pastel wedge their tubs out far enough to nearly escape. They are in V18 tubs and have enough strength to be able to use their mass to wedge the tub out of the shelf a bit. First time I thought I didn't push the tub in all the way after cleaning... second time there was no mistaking my Pin wedged her tub out. Thankfully they were never able to wedge the tub out enough to escape.

Here is my fix..... I used galvanized roofing nails with the tip ground smooth and my dremel to make a hole for the nail to fit into. The heads are so flat that they do not cause interference when removing a tub from the shelf.