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Stuck Snake?

Very glad to hear that all is OK, I was quite worried about the little guy. I have a hatchling comming in next week, think I will try a paper towel roll!
 
starship said:
Very glad to hear that all is OK, I was quite worried about the little guy. I have a hatchling comming in next week, think I will try a paper towel roll!
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I've got an 08 that still fits and loves to hide in a paper towel roll. Works like a charm.
 
BobbyHill said:
I've got an 08 that still fits and loves to hide in a paper towel roll. Works like a charm.
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Same here. I have either paper towel or toliet paper rolls in every hatchling bin I have. All the snakes use them from time to time but mostly after they have eaten.
 
Yes.
I found him very near one end of the tube and based a another reply about possibly getting stuck after a meal. I just kept touching him with my finger until he slowly inched his way out.
I removed the tube and replaced it with pipe insulation as it has a split down the middle making getting stuck impossible. As of yet, I have not seen him in it.

Maybe he was just getting in the tube because he enjoyed the danger.
No more risk, no more fun?

Whatever, he'll get over it.
Besides what's he gonna do? Hide from me all the time? Run from me constantly? Strike at me randomly?
I'm there. It can only get better
 
My friend's cornsnake got herself stuck in a cow skull for 4 days. The debate was of course, is she stuck or does she just like it in there. Turned out she had actually knotted herself and couldn't unknot to get out. She had to (carefully) smash the skull to let her out. Silly snakes.
 
On an interesting note, zzrayz, one summer in about 1979, I found a very long (5 feet or so) Black Rat Snake skin on some property we owned at the time, that was part of an old pecan plantation. I had observed the shed-isolate behaviour, or the shed-eat-isolate behaviour, so I went back the next day and began looking for woodpecker nest holes or rotted out fragile pecan limbs. Upon climbing to the first major fork of the tree nearest the skin, I could she the/a large BRS snug beyond belief in an old woodpecker hole nest, about ten feet up. The distal limb had long ago been sawed off, and what was left died I guess, leaving soft wood for the woodpecker. It was so soft that I broke off the roof of the chamber and extracted the snake. It had obviously recently gorged on something. Took it home, and the next day it had regurged 5 baby (not-quite-newborn) rabbits. So I took it back and released it under the tree, sorry I had bothered it. I used to be able to trace a fresh shed to a live BRS like Sherlock Holmes.
Ahhh......for those carefree halcyon days of youth and long summers chasing critters.

( The moral of the story is, I don't know how a BRS, pushing 6 feet, could have forced itself (or wanted to) into an old woodpecker hole. And on a full stomach, at that. )
 
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