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Found this snake cruising and climbing in one of my herp rooms. Weight records indicate there are 3-5 more like it roaming my house...anyone want to come over and help me look? Find anything and you can keep one : )

You´re lucky they arent venomous..

Good luck finding the others!

searched pockets of all the clothes in the closet, tore up the room and looked in cracks with a flashlight. got a step stool to look all around other rooms...it is going to be very, VERY hard to find more.

With this, I consider it a live and learn experience. I am not lucky they are not venomous because it would not have happened with venomous. I learned from other peoples misfortune there. While I do not have venomous at home, we do at work, and we all make sure all venomous enclosures are secure enough that babies could not fit. Even if an animal is 100% positive as never having been with a male...we still account for the possible parthenogenesis lol.

IFF it were to happen, animal plastics cages would be put to the test with how well the hold heat because my house would be cooled down to about 10 degrees if it were venomous snakes lol.

However, I might just start taking this secure of an approach with harmless snakes too (not the house cooling part) because I am ripping my hair out. I have a lot more things I could be getting done besides destroying my house looking for an unknown number of snakes of unknown color.

What kind of cages were the adults in? I have visions and my babies have slipped between the glass. I now have to fill that space in with paper towel. I hate how it looks, but haven't changed the cages yet.

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Dennis McNamara
Crazy Fools Reptiles
Desnakemon@cox.net

This adult, and all from this group were in a very large rack system (high tubs). The ventilation holes were more than large enough for babies to get through. This was a quarantine rack. I would not have had her in there if I was expecting babies, or I would have taped the vent holes (which is done now by the way, as I have had babies come later).

I love Animal Plastics cages because of where their vent slits are placed and how thin they are. The glass sheets are also very close to where it would be very difficult for anything to slip through.

I do know of baby eyelash vipers in a similar scenario to my tree boas getting through the glass gaps in visions. All of our visions at work have plastic stoppers, and the majority of our venomous are in AP cages or habitat systems.

What we have done with the sliding glass is buy some of the window/door insulation with the sticky backing. You can get varying widths, but just cut it to length, peel off the paper backing, and stick it to the front piece of glass where the pieces overlap, and it will close the gap and quiet down the rattling glass when the snakes are active. Really don't notice it, so definitely looks nicer than papertowels or newspaper (which I've done in the past).

Who would want this? I would!

Wow. Love the red. What did Mom look like?

mom has a lot of brick red coloration (not extremely pretty), but dad is very clean looking with variations of red.

>>...anyone want to come over and help me look? Find anything and you can keep one : )
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I'd help you look! once I lost 16 baby hognose snakes in my reptile room... hadn't realised that there was a hole in the incubator for ventilation. It took me a couple weeks to figure out how they had been getting out, I was sooo confused!
here's what I learned, they're always in the least likely spot. like right in the middle of the floor, the one spot you'd never look!
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My menagerie
3.4 Ball Pythons 1.1 Amazon Tree Boas 1.0 Dumerils Boa 1.1 Kenyan Sand Boas 2.0 Corn Snake 1.2 Black Rat Snakes 1.1.6 Bearded Dragons 1.1.4 Crested Geckos 1.1.4 Eastern Box Turtles 0.3 Chickens 2.1 Cats 1.1 Ferrets plus lots of mice and my Sweety-bird Sydney

Quit bragging man.

J

What's the grand total?
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Mike Heinrich,
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
www.amazontreeboa.org

Grand total right now is 4 live and one stillborn. I have been searching the house with a flashlight every night for more, but I am not thinking I will find them.

I have been keeping pretty good weight records and the weight she lost is a lot more than the weight of the babies (including stillborn). I have been weighing different amounds of water and dumping it onto paper towels to make a more educated determination on how much I can realistically factor in as lost weight from fluid and afterbirth. You are welcome to come by the house and look for more with me and you can keep what you find : )