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i dont know any of you guys have been following my story,but ill sum it up really quick.a few weeks ago my 2 year old manakawari escaped and did not turn up after an unbelievabe search of my apartment.not only did i look everywhere,everything was taken apart that he could have gotten into.the only place he could have gotten was under a very wide gap under a door that leads to a closet with the heating unit and an open ceiling allowing access into the ceiling,walls and neigbors apartments.about a week ago i heard from my maintainance guy when asking him if he heard anything,that my upstairs neighbors had found and killed a snake in their apartment.i thought that was that.now,before i had found this out,i bought two mice and placed them in small wire cages near the hole in the wall and another in another(less likley)hole he may have went into.i have kept these mice in these locations and have been feeding and watering them for no other reason than,i own no other rodent eating reptiles and have been looking for a pair of chondros so i figured i might as well keep them for when i do find something.anyway,in the first closet i also placed branches and such so that if he did climb back through the wall,he have a mouse and branches,hopefully enough to entice him to stay a bit.yesterday,when i came home from work,i found the mouse cage that was wedged between 2 water pipes,laying on the floor.there was noway that it could have fallen by itself or from the mouse struggling.something had to have knocked it over.also,when i was searching the closet,i found a piece of his shed aong the wall in some cobwebs.im sure it was not there before i gave up the search last week.so what gives?? i hate this not knowing.when i gave up the search i discovered a perfect hiding place for him but very unaccessable.under my apartment building,there is a basement but only accessable through a crawl space.but once n there you can stand up.it has all pipes hanging from the ceiling and ac units are down there kicking off heat.the only problem is that ,it is pure hell down there.ceiling is caving in,cob webs everywhere,6 inches of stagnant,green water on the floor,debree everywhere!!..no lights,mice and bugs.its so bad.im really scared to go down there but just shining a flashlight through the crawlspace and looking around,i could totally see how he would like it down there.food,humidity,water(tons of leaking pipes)and heat.everything he would need to survive for a while.now i cant ask my neighbors what the snake they killed looked like because they speak no english.to tell you the truth,i didnt question my maintance guy very much because i was just sure there couldnt be more than one snake loose in our building.but actually,i really wasnt told when they killed the snake,he just said that they did.for all i know they could have killed a snake months ago,meaning that it wasnt mine.damn,i hate this.now im starting to have hope that he may still be alive.had i not heard that from my maintainnce guy,i feel that i may have gotten him already.this week me and my girlfriend have been hearing weord noises in my apartment but i didnt investigate because i was sure it couldnt be my snake.ok now my question is,lets say in a week or so i do find him,after living in that nightmare,drinking stagnant water and maybe eating wild mice that live down there,do you guys think i should treat him with anything when he returns? like deworm him oranything?could he have caught anything while down there?the water leakin from the pipes is clean but if he drank the water on the floor,well i can only imagine what lives in there.i actually saw one mouse scurring along a pipe when i shined my flashlight down there so im sure ,if hes down there,hes already eaten.so much for retuning when he gets hungry.haha .

Can you show them a picture of your snake, and point at yourself so they get the idea it's yours? Hope it really is alive and you can trap it.
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Can you find out what language they speak? I'd not be one that could let go of something like this without at least trying to communicate with the neighbors.

An online translator: http://www.online-translator.com/

Show them a pic of the snake...offer them pen & paper for a reply and then run it through this translator trying different languages if you don't recognize which one they use.

Wish I was there so I could help. I'd be in that basement with a waterproof flashlight. It wouldn't be the first mucky situation I'd been in, lol.

Good luck.

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