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emergancy help with cornsnake!

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ac_vuohenraiskaaja

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my hatchling corns (2) have bin missing since before xmas,
over 2 months, last night i found one of them poking his head out of an air vent that leads into the floorboards of the room above.
there is no way it can get out except this hole.
i am planning to get some pinkies to lore him out,
in the meanwhile will the ol simpsons vibration trick work?
if i play loud music against the wall under the hole will he come to them?
thanks in advance ac vuohenraiskaaja
 
The vibrations might just as readily scare the bejezus out of him and cause him to retreate deeper into the dark recesses that he's been familar with these last 2+ months!

Better, IMO, to out out a 'food trap' and see if you can catch him that way. There's the 2 liter bottle trap (cut the top off, invert it and staple it in place with a pinkie inside) you can try. I caught an escaped brown snake (16 inches give or take) by putting it's food (feeder fish, in his case) inside a tall mop bucket and stacked books outside so he could get up and in. The bucket was too tall for him to get back out.

Good hunting!
 
but its a really thin undefed snake. it will get out of the bottle. i really wanne catch it soon i just dont know what to do with the bait when i get it. its at the top of a wall so god knows how it got there. but i cant place anythin next to it theres a good 2.5' above my fishtank til u get the hole
 
ac_vuohenraiskaaja said:
but its a really thin undefed snake. it will get out of the bottle. i really wanne catch it soon i just dont know what to do with the bait when i get it. its at the top of a wall so god knows how it got there. but i cant place anythin next to it theres a good 2.5' above my fishtank til u get the hole
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no hun, you misunderstand the concept of a bottle trap.of course if it could get in the bottle it would fit out...snakes mainly travel along walls, edges, the inverted top of the bottle will lead him right into the bottle, but following the "walls" of the bottle, he probably won't find the hole to get back out before you run across him....

any other places that would lead to this place he was poking out of?
 
ac_vuohenraiskaaja said:
another vent 3ft to its left.
thats the only ways in and out of the underfloorboard area which is very cold. how could it survive in there =S
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can you take the vent off ? maybe with a makeshift snakehook, you could scoot him in a direction where you could reach him? or if you can get the vent out/off, then you could put the trap up there...
 
the vent covers are off,
inside there is small holed bricks
and behind that the underfloor board part of a large room.
i guess he came out insearch of food. its the only way out through the vents
 
:/ Good Luck, I really hope you find them! I recommend you leave out pinkies, even if you dont catch them, they'll still have something to eat!
 
ac_vuohenraiskaaja said:
the vent covers are off,
inside there is small holed bricks
and behind that the underfloor board part of a large room.
i guess he came out insearch of food. its the only way out through the vents
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Do you have access to the duct work underneath the floor? If you can get to the duct work, cut it open, and use a flashlight and a straightened clothes hanger to rescue your snake. Duct work is very inexpensive to repair. I hope you find him!:spinner:
 
ive had a bottle with a pinkie inside, small holes cut into it to let the scent out, in hopes of them making another appearence. i cant take the floor up above it as its laminate and its the kind u glue together not click...
 
You don't have a basement or crawl space do you? If you did, you might be able to get to the duct work. I'm just wishful thinking for you... :shrugs:
 
Try several tape traps it worked great for me. Just take masking tape, not to sticky,the cheap tape (1/4 inch or less wide) is better or you will never get them off. lay the tape around where you have seen them and leave it over night or you can check on it every couple of hours if you want.
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The photo is from Don at SMR, you can get the tape off with room temp. water but don't drowned them! As I said it worked for me as I caught all my escapees this way. LOL
John
 
That picture looks horrible! lol I'm guessing it came off ok or Don wouldn't recommend it. Still, it looks awful!
 
dionythicus said:
That picture looks horrible! lol I'm guessing it came off ok or Don wouldn't recommend it. Still, it looks awful!
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It worked for me but you you are right it doesn't look good but the cheap tape and alittle water and it came right off. You have got to pull the tape with the scales as you run water over it. But out of three Ultramels het blood that escaped only one lost one scale and they all are doing great 6 months later.
John
 
the snakes are in my basement. its all renovated into a propper room, but there is 2 ventilation vents that lead to the floorboards of the room above. thats where the snakes are. ive had the bottle trap up for maybe 2 weeks. no luck. havent seen him since
 
but the vents are at the top of the room. if he hasnt even been out to the trap directly in the view as he exits, why would he go to the floor? so i thin kthe tape wont work??
 
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