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Juvenile ESCAPED: Advice needed, DEVASTATED

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embersfriend

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My 11-year-old's beloved snake Ember escaped his enclosure Sunday night and he discovered it yesterday late morning. Snake is about 8 months old. My boy is absolutely devastated. We took apart his bed, the dresser the vivarium was on, the closets shelving...have looked everywhere in his room all day. Upstairs in all carpet so the corn starch/flour trick won't work. Last night we put his home on the floor with the under-cage heater and put water out in his room and the adjacent bathroom. I got up at 2am to search with a flashlight, still nothing. My biggest fear is that he found the hole in the baseboard behind the toilet in the adjacent bathroom. Do you think that is likely? I'm afraid to cover it up in case he did go in there. In one of the other threads, someone said they put duct tape on the baseboards. Wouldn't that harm the snake? Please, any advice you can provide would be so appreciated! We are still in the first 48 hours of the escape so I am trying to be hopeful and proactive.
 
First thing I would do, not so much in regards to catching him but, I would put out a water bowl in the event he is hanging around and you don't find him quickly. Put out a water bowl and might even try putting out his hide.
 
Thanks! We did that in two places last night. Finally looked in our Don Soderberg book and saw the recommendation for the painters tape traps. Trying that tonight! Read every thread on here with keyword escape. Nothing says what to do if he went in the wall. Probably because there is nothing to do. Have set up water and hides outside of the hole. Fingers crossed we catch him tonight.
 
No luck. We even did the crumpled plastic bag thing and turned all the lights off and laid there for an hour at midnight. Got up at 4am to check the tape and his enclosure (put it on its side in hopes he might return). Trying not to get discouraged since last night was the end of the first 48 hours. Don Soderberg's book said after that time it is unlikely we will find him but I have seen so many posts about it taking a week or even months. Has anyone here found a young lost corn after a couple days have gone by?
 
Have you searched the places you've already searched? Just because it wasn't there once, or twice, doesn't mean it wont be there thrice.

I lost a boa once and went a few days before finding it. Came to find it wrapped around the underseat of a barstool. The solution was right under my ass and I never knew it.

He traveled down a flight of stairs and passed through two other rooms just so he could climb the barstool.

Most the time we as humans tend to think worst case scenario when one goes missing rather than think how fast the snake can move and where it would really want to go.
 
Thank you! We haven't even started with the downstairs. Everything I read said for the first day or two he is probably in the room we lost him in. I really hope he hasn't got downstairs but if he has we will find him. We will continue searching and not lose hope!
 
Have you found it yet? I've heard of snakes going missing for weeks, even months, and then found in good shape.
If you haven't found it, hand in there!!

Let us know..

By the way, we lost ours for 48hours and found her crawling across the basement floor.
 
I lost a baby corn snake one time for at least a few days. It may have even been more than a week, I don't really remember. He made it all the way from one end of the house to the other without any of the dogs, cats, or people noticing him. I eventually found him in the track for the sliding patio door.

Hope you find your little guy soon! They are mostly active early morning and evening, so those are the best times to be paying attention for him. And they tend to move along the walls or furniture, not so much across open spaces.
 
We still haven't found him. We've put out bottle traps and tried the painters tape. We have left out water in every room. Fingers crossed!
 
My daughter's corn escaped about a month ago. It took 10 days, but she showed up. I was lead to believe by what I had read online that they might go downward but wouldn't climb. When I was putting away my daughter's new clothes for school I found a shed skin between two of the (fuzzy-type) hangers! My daughter actually found the snake when she was coming out of the bathroom one evening, slithering in front of the door to get behind the hamper. Don't despair! Keep a watchful eye, keep water out, and keep checking the room the vivarium is in. If it's a young snake, it probably didn't go far.
 
Good point about going down instead of up. Ours was downstairs just exploring when we caught her in the hallway.
 
Don't give up hope.
My wife just found my missing little girl in the basement next to the water heater.
2:00 in the morning and she had been missing for 30 days.
I will add that my wife had put bowls of water on every level of the house.
And as quick as I could I got her a pinky thawed out and she ate without any hesitation.
 
Thanks y'all. We still keep water out all the time. Our water heater is in the garage but I will check! Afraid to move the fridge. He escaped upstairs where the bedrooms are but I still think he could have easily gone into the hole in the baseboard and into the walls. Still hoping to find him...
 
Keep up hope! My first escapee, a juvenile, was never found. But one of my others has escaped 4 times when my son kept sliding the enclosure open (they are now locked). The first find was under the treadmill in the same room after a week. The second he was in a bookshelf in the same room after 2 days. The third he was in the bathroom coiled behind the toilet after three weeks. The fourth time, it was six weeks before I found him and I thought for sure he was a goner since I have dogs and a dog door in the reptile room. He was hiding in the warmer tray under the stove the whole time. Good thing I rarely cook! I had an issue with mice in the house at the time, and he had obviously helped me out lol.
I second recommendations to leave out water in several places. Another trick I used was to put a thin line of flour across thresholds to see if he had moved room to room. The painters tape may serve a similar purpose if you have carpet.


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Were you able to find it yet? I just searched “escaped” because our little juvenile escaped and We are trying everything we have read, with no luck so far.

I have put water cups on every room, and even made those soda bottle traps.

It is so scary cause she is still so tiny, and there are so many places for her to be.
 
I got one back a few months ago by putting a small tank / terrarium on the floor , corner of the snake room ..

It was on its side with the flap open with a small dish of water in - I put a small heat mat underneath .

Ten days later I found the little hatchling curled up inside it , asleep one morning - just over the warm area.


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