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And then there were 11

dionythicus

dionythicus

Kiss My Hearse
We started with 15 eggs, had 13 healthy babies, now two have escaped from their containers. These were the two amels I was willing to sell. I knew I never should have tempted Fate by commenting that amels weren't my favourite morph so I didn't care about selling them off. Poof! Now they're gone. I suppose I deserved it, but the babies don't deserve to be lost in a huge house with a million boxes to hide in and a small battalion of cats to hunt them down.

The cats had something cornered at 3am two nights ago, but I couldn't find anything and figured it was a spider. My husband asks, "Did you check the snakes?" Duh. No. They're all secured. I thought that if it was a snake, the cats wouldn't leave it alone, but they all went away, so I didn't think about it. Now I wish I'd looked a little further.

I'll try the usual traps, but the way our house is disorganized, I don't think I'll find two tiny hatchlings. Rats.
 
I found one!

I found one of the escapees! I can't believe it. Their mother is in a 75 gal on a stand, with three 10 gal tanks that fit underneath. I've been looking under the 10 gals because they're less than an inch off the bottom and each has a UTH. I figured a baby would get under those. But on a whim I looked up at the tiny ledge that runs under the 75 gal and there was an amel baby wedged in it! I'm thrilled!

To everyone who's still looking and hoping to find their escapees, have faith!
 
Glad to see you found one. We have two missing - Sparks has been gone for six months now and my favorite ghost, Sweetheart escaped a few days ago (unfortunately she had at least a day head start on us). Maybe we'll have the same kind of luck.

~Katie
 
Good luck!

I've put out two heat mats with taped up paper towel tubes in an effort to lure the remaining baby into a warm, safe place. I think this one is the one that got out first, three days ago. Hopefully it didn't go any further than the other.
 
I'm so glad you found one! If it helps, one of my friends lost a 2 month old baby okeetee once. He found it two years later, and much larger, sunning in his driveway. :)
 
Sisuitl said:
I'm so glad you found one! If it helps, one of my friends lost a 2 month old baby okeetee once. He found it two years later, and much larger, sunning in his driveway. :)
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:eek1: Unbelievable!!
This DOES give me hope. Georgia has been missing since November, and I had pretty much given up. Obviously, you never can tell...
 
We still have another 2 MIA from late last year, both babies. I do not expect to find either of them. One was a zig-zag sunkissed that really has me bummed. I would have loved to have kept him!
 
Sisuitl said:
I'm so glad you found one! If it helps, one of my friends lost a 2 month old baby okeetee once. He found it two years later, and much larger, sunning in his driveway. :)
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... god damn thats amazing :O :eek1:
 
Found the other one!

Last night my husband starts yelling, "Snake! Snake!", and with 44 of them in the house, I had no idea what the man was going on about. I thought our new rosy boa had found a way out. I was in the snake room at the time, so I really didn't know why he was yelling. Then he's telling me to get one of the small tubs because he found the other missing baby! He had it in his hands and we got it safely put back where it belongs. It seems to be no worse for wear after about 10 days on the lam. It was hiding amongst the boxes where the cats had been focused a week and a half ago, the night before we realised they babies were gone. So they truly had cornered a snake and I just never saw it. Last night, our cat Frida was poking around in the boxes and when my husband went to check, he saw a little orange worm tucked up in a crease. He nabbed it and was so excited he couldn't think of anything to say, except, "Snake! Snake!"

The moral of this story is if your cats are fixated on something in the middle of the night, one of your snakes is out. :grin01:
 
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