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Sad loss for me today=( Came home from school and I should Have checked the tank of my corn blaze but instead went onto the computer. Hour later I figured I'd just handle him today since he eats tomorrow and luck of the devil he was gone. Not gone as died but banished. Its unlike him to do anything in the daytime as his basking light is on so he waits for it to go off. No one was home in the house and even though he was a long snake he could not push the mesh style lid off the tank and get out. I didnt have locks on it but Had stuff to way it down and figured I'd buy locks soon. Looked for him for an hour or so straight with a flashlight and mirrors to look under crevices. What a nice way to start off with snakes huh? I plan to get another one later in the week because Ive grown to love snakes sad it had to end this way though.

Sorry about that last post but the little booger was under the freaking sub-strate! I'm happy and mad lol disregard this message, I'm very sorry lol.

well at least he isnt gone i had mine get out last week, looked everywhere, found her in the cabinet her tank is on, i didnt think to look there....LOL..... actually i figured she was gone, so i went looking for something else and found her

Same thing happened to me years ago. Mine got out, I looked for him for days. Started taking my tank down and found him in the strip light lying along the reflector. He was literally on his enclosure the whole time right under my nose.

Cool stories, Just glad mine didn't even get out of his tank. I know my snake, he wouldn't sit around and hang out, he would have bolted for the nearest vent in the house and would be gone for good. Good thing he was just deeply under the substrate. In my head I just thought to myself "wait let me lift up the tank and see if I see him", and sure enough I was right. I'm planning to change from crushed walnut to reptibark, for the reason I want him to burrow but not to the point where I dig and dig and dont see him. Plus I think repti bark would be much more better, just would have to feed him outside the tank.

well i will say this it is better to actually feed in a different container, i was advised to feed in a seperate container and i went out and bought kritter keepers..... i have a friend who feeds in her tank and she has been nitten a few times because the snake thinks she is putting in food i guess.... i have noticed my snakes are more at ease with me handling them also .

when i feed them in their tank i take everything out first, usually i feed them in a tupperware tub
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

the funny part of it was i stayed out of work to look for her... even tried to follow which way she got out, so i was in the closet digging in boxes.....
after all of that and finding her several hours later, i found belly marks on the cabinet leading to right where she was...LOL..i looked and looked but not hard enough i guess you could say..... plus that was a hint that i need to dust the house better....LOL

np

i guess, i work so early in the morning i come home and go back to bed after all my critters are checked on, i hardly ever come out of the house nor do i have company, so some spots are over looked.

I don't have those excuses. I just don't dust because I don't care.

well i guess i dont care like most people do, but i do have to keep up with the dog hair i have a chow chow who is in shed, and i have pregnant rat who keeps picking up hair to make a nest...
last time my mom was over she said something about my dog shedding and i had brushed her earlier that day so i had a bag full of hair, she asked what it was for, i replied with im going to have it spun into yarn and then have you a sweater and hat made for xmas.....LOL.... i know my mom is scared...LOL.... im going to find a black sweater and a matching hat to give her for xmas....LOL

The dust trick......

Actually, that is a good thing to remember. A lot of people will put flour or powder out in doorways, etc. when a snake is lose. If a snake crawls over it at night (or otherwise when you don't see), at least you have a good clue as to which room it is in. You just "lucked" into getting help via that trick thanks to the dust.

Did you know that about 80% of the dust floating around your house is really dead skin? Gross, huh? I always think "I'm inhaling someone else's dead skin!"

KJ

You're also inhaling air that's been in peoples' lungs.

It's all the same as hot dogs! Don't think about what you're eating and it tastes just fine.
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
0.0.1 Butter Corn "Butters" (South Park)
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"

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It's strange, but I can eat vienna sausages, but not potted meat. I know they are made of the same stuff, but at least Vienna sasuages are goewey!

>>It's all the same as hot dogs! Don't think about what you're eating and it tastes just fine.

Just wait until you bite into a hotdog and find a vein!

well the dust in my house is a nice mix, snakes, tarantula, rats, guinea pigs, ferrets, dog, cats, and a sugar glider....

sounds like you have all the food groups
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
0.0.1 Butter Corn "Butters" (South Park)
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"

You got a second chance, don't waste it. Get locks. Weight can end up being the reason a snake escapes, it can bend the lid. That's what happened to my first snake, a scarlet kingsnake I caught at school named Milky (they are actually a type of milksnake). I never found him. I had him for about a year. He was a great pet. Even my mom liked him. At the time, I wasn't allowed to feed my snakes mice and he ate crickets and besides that, he would never bite or anything.

you gave up after an hour and planned on replacing him that week? you do know that you could have hust lured him out right?

my corn burrows all the time, the first time it scared the crap out of me because i thought he escaped from a locked sliding lid cage.

lazlo escaped for about the fourth time last week, i picked up a dirty pair of pants off the floor and there he was, dangling out of the pocket.

escapes happen buy locks and use them! mine only escape when i forget to lock the cages, one time i left mazys top off over a weekend while i was gone and she was still there
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

LoL I know I'm cruel... Its just that I have a huge room and the chances of me finding a hatchling amel, 10" by the way on RED CARPET is astronomical. I gave up but you have to understand that finding him would be almost impossible. I'm just glad I found him and I'm changing the substrate tomorrow after school ".

>>lazlo escaped for about the fourth time last week, i picked up a dirty pair of pants off the floor and there he was, dangling out of the pocket.
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>>2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
>>1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
>>0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

If I only had four snakes and one got out 4 times, I'd be seriously re-evaluating my set-up to see what can be changed to prevent that. Currently, I'm running over 100 snakes, and in the past year, I have only had ONE escapee. I trashed that cage and put the snake (it took me about 10 minutes to locate him) in a new one. Not sure why/how it got out, but I wanted to reduce the chances of it happening again.

KJ

with the style of locks i have on his cage i just lock it at night but i forget sometimes and the first time was before i had locks. the others i always lock after closing the cage

i usually forget to lock them because he usually doesnt escape but once every so often he does one of my others will escape an unlocked cage in minutes, one has never tried, the other is too small
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

This all shows what's great about boas and pythons. They are large bodied (can't fit under doors), slow, and you can find them by the trail of stuff they knockes over.