Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm new to snakes and mine crawled into a plastik tube and now it doesn't want to come out. How can I motivate the snake to leave the tube? It turned its tail forwards anu now it looks as if she was stuck and doesn't come outfor hours. Can a snake get itself stuck in a tube ? My snake is a small boa.

thanx!

I doubt it is stuck. Snakes sometimes feel more secure in tight places like that. If you need it out you could try to coax it out with food. Good luck!
-----
1.0 Tiger Retic.
1.0 Columbian Boa?
1.0 Mexican King
2.1 Alterna Gray Bands
2.1 Speckled Kings (1 albino pair)
1.0 Melanistic? California King
1.1 Black Pines
1.0 Red Northern Pine
0.1 Mexican Black King
1.1 Bearded Dragon

If it's doubled over it most likely is NOT stuck, it can manipulate it's body around itself. They love to get crammed into small spaces. I did have a gravid BRB actually get stuck in a tube but it was about her girth. Here's a cage pic with larger diameter pipes.

-----
Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

That looks like a really fun cage. Got anymore pics of it?

I built it as a breeding cage for my BRB's, they love it and produced 136 babies this year from 2.7 adults. For the better part of the year all the tubes are closed off and snakes are individually housed. For breeding season I opened up the vertical tubes, still keeping the lateral tubes blocked. That made two vertical four cage sections. One for each male and his harem. I now have two of these so I can set up four breeding colonies.

These are old pics and now each section is set up like the upper right with a moss hide box and large water bowl. BRB's do well with higher humidity. Also the keen eye will spot a couple of ball pythons. The shoeboxes were holding some already sold babies.

If you look on top you'll see a aluminum box. Inside are dimmers so I can adjust each level independently. The whole cage is on a thermostat but the upper levels tend to get warmer. for breeding season I adjust so there are a range of temps. While individually housed, I adjust so all are the same. Also on top you can see a small pile of black block out plugs. You can see one installed in pic 2 lower right (where the ball pythons were).

-----
Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Try pouring some water in the tube. The snake should come out. If it does not move around and come out in a very short time it may actually be stuck (not very likely) and you should dump the water out so it does not drown the snake. Snakes love to get into tight hiding places. Most of the time they can come out when they are motivated to do so.
Good luck,
Jeff

>>Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm new to snakes and mine crawled into a plastik tube and now it doesn't want to come out. How can I motivate the snake to leave the tube? It turned its tail forwards anu now it looks as if she was stuck and doesn't come outfor hours. Can a snake get itself stuck in a tube ? My snake is a small boa.
>>
>>thanx!

That was going to be my suggestion as well. Water works with everything.