pretends2bnormal
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Yesterday, I decided to move my 8 month old corn snake (Abbott's Okeetee, approx. 40-45g) out of the tub he has been in since he was 6g (37qt sterilite gasket tub with 6 latches) and into a similar floor-space PVC cage with sliding glass doors. He's very calm while handled compared to what people say about small corn = squirmy corn and has been since he was about 25g. He comes out to see when I walk into the room and eats very enthusiastically. Honestly, he is probably trying to see if I have food or not. And he is out and exploring enough that I wanted to put him in a more display-type cage.
This is his standard response to food. He'll do it while food is still being held by tongs, so I can set him down as a ball off of his bedding.
I had held off doing the upgrade for a month or two out of concern for the gap between the glass and him maybe escaping from it. His head looks 3-4 mm tall and the gap maybe 1.5-1.75 mm, so I thought that should be small enough to prevent an escape. The holes in his tub were approx the same diameter since he was 6g and he never tried/managed to get out. I had concerns that the added width from it being between panes of glass would let him squeeze through still.
I did let him inspect the gap both inside and outside for a while before leaving him there and he booped it several times and only got the very very tip of his nose between it (maybe 1/20th of his head, if that) before immediately backing up and moving on in exploring. I checked several times yesterday and he was still fine. Nothing else in the cage has gaps he could get through, the vents have a fine mesh between the slats and everything. You can kinda see one of the vents here:
So, cut to this morning and I pull his hides to check he's present and he isn't. Not unusual since he loves to burrow and there's a good half inch of dry eco earth, so I feel through the substrate. Nothing.
I promptly hauled everything out of the cage and thoroughly sifted through the substrate, and still Nothing.
I did that for probably 5 minutes in increasing desperation to have not had him escape. As I leaned forward for my last check before giving up to search the room, I saw his little nose poke down from above the door opening and a tongue flicker.
"Hey, mom. What are you doing with all my stuff??"
The little dork had climbed up onto the light and wedged himself up there very tightly. I didn't even know there was a gap at all above the light, much less one he could squeeze his chubby butt into. (Hadn't looked at the light closely before, honestly, I kind of forgot it wasn't like the LED strip in my ball pythons cage; it's like a small LED bar for lighting up under cabinets or something, but it is attached to the front edge of the cage instead of the ceiling and makes a tiny shelf I guess.)
I failed to take a picture of him wedged up there, but I suspect he'll do it again, so I'll see when I get home. If not, I'll post a picture of the gap above the light with him next to it for comparison. It was pretty hilarious once I got over the panic of thinking he had escaped.
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This is his standard response to food. He'll do it while food is still being held by tongs, so I can set him down as a ball off of his bedding.
I had held off doing the upgrade for a month or two out of concern for the gap between the glass and him maybe escaping from it. His head looks 3-4 mm tall and the gap maybe 1.5-1.75 mm, so I thought that should be small enough to prevent an escape. The holes in his tub were approx the same diameter since he was 6g and he never tried/managed to get out. I had concerns that the added width from it being between panes of glass would let him squeeze through still.
I did let him inspect the gap both inside and outside for a while before leaving him there and he booped it several times and only got the very very tip of his nose between it (maybe 1/20th of his head, if that) before immediately backing up and moving on in exploring. I checked several times yesterday and he was still fine. Nothing else in the cage has gaps he could get through, the vents have a fine mesh between the slats and everything. You can kinda see one of the vents here:
So, cut to this morning and I pull his hides to check he's present and he isn't. Not unusual since he loves to burrow and there's a good half inch of dry eco earth, so I feel through the substrate. Nothing.
I promptly hauled everything out of the cage and thoroughly sifted through the substrate, and still Nothing.
I did that for probably 5 minutes in increasing desperation to have not had him escape. As I leaned forward for my last check before giving up to search the room, I saw his little nose poke down from above the door opening and a tongue flicker.
"Hey, mom. What are you doing with all my stuff??"
The little dork had climbed up onto the light and wedged himself up there very tightly. I didn't even know there was a gap at all above the light, much less one he could squeeze his chubby butt into. (Hadn't looked at the light closely before, honestly, I kind of forgot it wasn't like the LED strip in my ball pythons cage; it's like a small LED bar for lighting up under cabinets or something, but it is attached to the front edge of the cage instead of the ceiling and makes a tiny shelf I guess.)
I failed to take a picture of him wedged up there, but I suspect he'll do it again, so I'll see when I get home. If not, I'll post a picture of the gap above the light with him next to it for comparison. It was pretty hilarious once I got over the panic of thinking he had escaped.
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