No contradiction.
It took 2 days because I didn't expect the snake to find a hole in the wall with enough space between radiator pipe and wall so that he could crawl into another room! I wasn't even looking in bedroom until I was unable to find him in the living room.
Had him out for a couple of hours last night, had a lot of fun. I've blocked the bottom of the rad so he can't go there again but he still likes to move around and check things out.
We did some couch surfing
I handled him so he decided to return the favour
Gave me a neck massage
Head scratcher
He wrapped around my arm like this for a good 5 minutes. Just hangin' around
And the descent
When I took him back to enclosure he wouldn't put his head in so I returned to couch and let him tool around on it and on the floor around it for another half hour before finally picking him up and putting him away for the night. He got a good workout LOL.
And he's now up to almost 400 grams, visibly bigger and an increase of 70+ grams in a little over a month.