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Ok yall its been 3 days sence my Striped Albino California King made his Great Escape here are some of the things ive done to try and find her any other ideas will be awesome

Got pinkies in bottles

Got caves in corners some with heat some with pinkies some with both

Got flour Lines in front of all door ways to see if she is on the move

Dang ive got to find her i know shes in this house ive had one other snake escape and found it two weeks later but im affraid with her being as small as she is shes going to be needing food and soon
EDD

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0.1 Miami Phase CornSnake
1.0 Normal CornSnake
1.0 Sunglow CornSnake
0.1 Standard Ball Python
0.0.1 Rough Green Snake
0.1 Striped Albino Califorina King Snake
0.0.1 Legless Lizard AkA Glass Snake
1.1 Mediterranean Geckos
0.2 Green Iguanas
0.1 Blue Stripe Iguana
0.0.1 Blue Tounge Skink
2.1 Oscars (FISH)
0.1 Albino Oscar

When was her last meal and how often do you feed her? I lost my corn for a few days, but she showed up - LIKE CLOCKWORK - for her next feeding. I was pretty amazed.

Sounds like you're doing everything right... Good luck!
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3 Corns - Squall (Normal), Freya (Normal), Peyton (Amel)
2 Florida Kings - Thor & Lilith
1 Leucistic Texas Rat Snake - MacLeod

I've had good luck with just putting some towels down throughout the house. I would put one against the baseboard, and one in the middle of every room. Chances are when she reaches one of those towels she'll hang out for a while. You just have to remember to check often. Hope this helps it did for me.
Ken

that worked for me once. Put loosely folded newspaper squares in corners of room you suspect the snake is and put a heat source, either under, or over the paper. This keeps them in that spot long enough for you to find it. It took two weeks but the escape showed up under one, the morning I was leaving on a business trip and my wife was going to a hotel (she is afraid of snakes – man did she choose wrong).

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Rick
Never Enough
Reptiles

im affraid with her being as small as she is shes going to be needing food and soon

If that snake has eaten ANY meals at all, it will be fine for months. The thing that gets baby snakes is dehydration. I often find missing babies in the bathroom at night. I think they go in their trying to find the water they can smell. That is a good place to look.
Turn out all the lights, wait about an hour and walk around with a flashlight looking in bathrooms. I have found quite a few snakes this way.

If it goes another week or more, you might consider putting out a few waterbowls in corners here and there so the snake doesn't dessicate.

Keep looking - almost all missing snakes show up.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Something that goes along with the "towels" idea... Make sure you check your laundry. I had someone tell me that they have found their snakes (apparently multiple escapees) camped out in their dirty laundry baskets.

Again, good luck!
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3 Corns - Squall (Normal), Freya (Normal), Peyton (Amel)
2 Florida Kings - Thor & Lilith
1 Leucistic Texas Rat Snake - MacLeod

With babies you will have real good luck with packing tape sticky side up on the edge of the rooms. If they crawl across the tape they get stuck and are waiting for you to find them. When you do find it you just need to pour a little olive oil on the tape and it will disolve the glue.

Another idea is to put platic shopping bags behind the larger funiture in the room it was in and anywhere else around the house you can hide them. When the snake crawls across you will hear the noise. This works real well in your bedroom. I don't wake up for my alarm but if I hear a crinkle I am out of bed. I leave the bags behind the furniture just incase. Out of sight out of mind.

Good Luck
Jason

Hello,
I have an albino stripe cali king that escaped. I found it about a month later sun bathing outside, by my front door. Oh and before he got outside, he went deeper into the house because I found a shed skin in my hallway. When I found him he was twice the size than when he got out. Go figure! No idea how it got out of the container, the pet room and the house. Smart little buggers. Most of the snakes that have been lost show up eventually, in my experience. Sorry, I don't really have much advice except maybe keep lights low and put food on the floor(dead mice). Look in warm dark places.
The first snake that got out when I first started collecting ended up in my mouse breeder cage that was sitting on the floor. It had gotten through the bars, ate all the pinkies and couldn't get out! (either that or it was happy there!) Good luck
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