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So just when I was about to put my male, Noah (the Boa) in with Cherry, after waiting three weeks for him to shed, he finally did then felt restless (I guess) and popped the backlight from his cage and escaped through the hole.
Despite my snake room being relatively enclosed, it looks like he slithered through the hole in the wall where the dryer vent hose goes into the garage. I have few hopes of ever finding him, although he might be able to find loose rats in there to eat. We just moved and there is still a mountain of boxes where he could hide in any number of places. I am just keeping an eye out on the tracking in the garage door in case he thinks it might be fun to climb up there when someone comes home.
*Sigh* and he would have gotten some hot tail last night too!
Silly snake.

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Jess
1.3 adult brazilian rainbows
1.2 baby BRBs born 6/18
1.0 normal corn
1.0 african brown house snake
0.1 hypo Boa constrictor
0.1 normal ball python
2.4.2 crested geckos
1.1 western hognoses
0.2 kitties Marina (aka Mayhem)and Chaos
1.0 boyfriend to keep me spoiled
1.1 paranoid parents "too many snakes!"

That sucks, all I can say is keep looking!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
19.29 BRB
13.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Abbi did the same thing last night, i was in a hurry and didn't snap the lid on tight enough and thank goodness i found her in the bottom drawer of the rack stuffed into a vacuum attachment brush, should of taken a pic, but she was cold and so i placed her back into her container and now she is nice and warm with a tightly snapped lid on. Tonight is feeding night so maybe i can get a few pic's. Had her on my arm last night and only one strike when i moed too fast. I find myself laughing and not jerking from them now as it is tooo cute.
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1.4 various boas(Flicka,Felony,Nova,Alias,Abby)
0.1 BRB Abalone; ABBI
1.0 Rott X (OSO)
2.0 cats (Simba, Morris)

fish & feeders

I would make a humidity hide and put it where you think he may be. A lot of snakes can show up even years after being lost, but since BRB humidity requirements are more extreme they are less likely to do as well out and about. Hopefully he'll find the hide and use it, maybe stay in it long enough for you to find him there.
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1.1 96, 04 Het Albino - "Suzie" & "Lumpy"
0.1 03 Poss. Het Albino - "Ami"
0.1 05 Super Salmon - "CreamSicle"
0.1 04 Anery Het Snow- "Squelchy"
1.0 04 DH-Sunglow - "Dwayne"
1.0 06 TH-Moonglow - "Gargamel"
1.2 01 BRBs- "Gobball", "Larva" & "Tofu"

I hope you find him. Maybe check around your female's cages, he may have decided to go out on a date without waiting for you

I suggest checking everywhere around his cage then spread out from there slowly. He may not have gotten so far to have shimmed down the dryer vent. Probably be a good ideal not to use the dryer, as that pipe can get pretty hot when the dryer is in use, maybe not hot enough to burn but hot enough to make it extremely uncomfortable for your snake....then again maybe it will be a way to drive him out, if he is still in the vent somewhere.

If you have a nearby toilet, check that. When my male escaped that is where i found him...then again I didn't even know he escaped till I came home from work and headed for the bathroom to well, use it...and noticed a big BRB coiled up in the toilet. For a minute I thought I just acquired a third BRB but realized it was the male. Naughty boy. It was then I realized I didn't snap the lid of his cage securely enough. Now I really double check (then again I have since moved him into a bigger cage which has bungy cords over the lids to keep them secure...the other cage snapped down securely enough it didn't need it).

Just keep looking, don't always assume he went down the most obvious place (my female when she was young escaped from soaking in the sink...searched everywhere for her, didn't find her. It was only a week later when I was thawing rats in that same sink, that I found her, coiled behind the soap dispenser patiently waiting for her dinner to thaw LOL). I realized she probably slide down the overflow hole in the sink (she was small enough to fit into it).

I literally tore my laundry/snake room apart looking for him, and unfortunately the dryer vent hose is only a few feet away from his cage. Everything stays warmer in that small room than it ever did in our office, lighter electricity bills since when the dryer is running my ceramic heaters are off and the room is plenty warm. I am going to start the garage search for him tomorrow, the vent hose is empty, so he must have gotten out, there is no way he could have climbed into the washer or dryer. All that remains is 150 sq. feet of garage filled with boxes to the ceiling that are not taped and he could have climbed into any one of them.
I had hoped he might have snuck in with one of my females, preferably Cherry, who I dont think he got the job done with the first time. Silly boy!
If anything I can only hope that he will pop up somewhere. I am picking up a new pair (related) next week and if anything I will have a spare male, which is always nice. My girls should like it.
I cant stop hoping, I mean I DID find a baby kingsnake in my garage that had escaped from inside the house (5 months earlier!) and found his way out to the garage through the walls and was curled up underneath the spare fridge. Fortunately a cage of young rats got out and hid in the same place otherwise I never would have found him!
UNfortunately, my stepdad didnt securely fasten the snake's cage tightly and he got out again, for all I know, he is still in our old house.

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Jess
1.3 adult brazilian rainbows
1.2 baby BRBs born 6/18
1.0 normal corn
1.0 african brown house snake
0.1 hypo Boa constrictor
0.1 normal ball python
2.4.2 crested geckos
1.1 western hognoses
0.2 kitties Marina (aka Mayhem)and Chaos
1.0 boyfriend to keep me spoiled
1.1 paranoid parents "too many snakes!"

>>....there is no way he could have climbed into the washer or dryer.

I sure hope that you have found him by now. If there is a vent hose attached to your dryer, it just might be possible for him to have gotten in the dryer. You mentioned a fridge, check out behind it. The coils on the back and the compressor under it both get very warm/hot. Can you get something like a wire box trap/ live trap? Maybe put a live mouse/rat in it with food and water. Leave it in the garage in the open. Ask everyone not to use the garage for cars and to keep the doors to the outside closed. Maybe the mouse will get his attention.
Best of luck to you
Rob
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"I reject your reality and substitute my own" Adam Savage
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn
0.1 Creamscicle corn
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer