Hope someone can learn from my mistake.
Things have been goin so good with hand feeding, him sitting in my hand (in the tank) and us getting along in general so I decided to try having him out of the tank on my lap.
After reading all the posts and especially the one where the Uro jumped and got hurt I decided it would be the safest if I sat on the bathroom floor where there is no furniture to run behind etc when he would venture away from me as I expected. I even put a towel up against the bathroom door and made sure everything was closed.
Things were going very good and after a few walks around he was sitting on me letting me pet him. On his next run he went towards the vanity and I thought this was a good place to let him walk around. He played around and disappeared into what I thought was behind the cabinet door somehow.
What I never looked at was under the vanity just above the kickplate... there is a gap with access to the sub flooring !
Having no time to recover from my heart attack I grabbed a hammer and knocked through the cabinet bottom and with a flashlight was able to see him. The cabinet is 5' long so I was actually lucky that he was right there. After making the hole large enogh that I could reach in I was able to get a hold of him on the 2'nd try.
We are back to the usual here now 45 mins later... he had some dust on him but is eatting outta my hand and climbing on the wood already.
So... I hope someone can learn from my mistake and know that you can never check the security of an area enough ! As for Magnus... his trips to the bathroom for now will be to his basking area where he likes to 'go'.
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1 Uromastyx Macfadyeni named Magnus
(Magnus is one of Anne Rice's vampire characters)
60 tropical fish
2 African Clawed Frogs named Reef (olive) and Barnacle (albino)
4 Fiddler Crabs
- Mike
Morris Cty, NJ
