ronlina
12-28-2007, 11:07 PM
Hopefully someone can still help me despite that I've started this off with the cheesiest excuse for a title ever..?
Okay. I've had my corn snake for a little over 5 years now. She's always been fed and happy and had a clean tank - but the past year, she's been mighty restless.
She started getting out of her tank this year. The first time I found her right off, all was ok. Then, just before I left for a road trip last summer from MA to VA I found out she got out of her tank. I looked as much as I could and left food out for her, but no luck. After I got to a friend's house in Virginia, I found her stowed away in my bag, just hanging out. No idea how she got there. Ever since, she's been finding more persistent ways to escape (Her take albeit doesn't have the best lid - a sliding one, which i now keep duct taped all the time).
I know the solution would be to get a better tank/lid, but I'm more concerned with her sudden change in behavior. She'd never tried to escape like this before. Nowadays, even when I'm feeding her, she looks completely disinterested in the food and only wants to leave the tank. Not only that, but she's gotten hostile. She since has gotten out two other times (by actually squeezing through the tape, which I learned to get around by re- taping every so often..) and both times tried to bite me. She was always tame and used to me, I don't get it. It's now to the point that I feel bad for keeping her, like maybe she was happier when she figured out how nice it was to go where she wanted, but that must be nuts. Is it something to do with the tank itself?
She has a good amount of room - it's a 40gal tank. I clean her tank every few weeks, same as I always did. I haven't changed substrates.. I really haven't been able to spend as much time with her in the past year, but didn't think she'd be affected by just that if she's being fed and cared for otherwise.. Any ideas?
Okay. I've had my corn snake for a little over 5 years now. She's always been fed and happy and had a clean tank - but the past year, she's been mighty restless.
She started getting out of her tank this year. The first time I found her right off, all was ok. Then, just before I left for a road trip last summer from MA to VA I found out she got out of her tank. I looked as much as I could and left food out for her, but no luck. After I got to a friend's house in Virginia, I found her stowed away in my bag, just hanging out. No idea how she got there. Ever since, she's been finding more persistent ways to escape (Her take albeit doesn't have the best lid - a sliding one, which i now keep duct taped all the time).
I know the solution would be to get a better tank/lid, but I'm more concerned with her sudden change in behavior. She'd never tried to escape like this before. Nowadays, even when I'm feeding her, she looks completely disinterested in the food and only wants to leave the tank. Not only that, but she's gotten hostile. She since has gotten out two other times (by actually squeezing through the tape, which I learned to get around by re- taping every so often..) and both times tried to bite me. She was always tame and used to me, I don't get it. It's now to the point that I feel bad for keeping her, like maybe she was happier when she figured out how nice it was to go where she wanted, but that must be nuts. Is it something to do with the tank itself?
She has a good amount of room - it's a 40gal tank. I clean her tank every few weeks, same as I always did. I haven't changed substrates.. I really haven't been able to spend as much time with her in the past year, but didn't think she'd be affected by just that if she's being fed and cared for otherwise.. Any ideas?