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Help! Trying to find a corn...

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Hashi90

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well i have just set out bottles with mice in them, so i am trying the bottle trick. My next question however is, are corn snakes attracted to other snakes? as in if i bought another corn snake, would the missing one go to it? Would she smell the new one eating and be lured out? Im trying just about anything right now and I am a new corn owner. i bought her on march 18th and shes been missing since the 1st of april. Shes about 28 inches long and as wide as a penny. Im still searching, i know they can last up to 8 weeks without food, so i havent lost hope yet. any more suggestions would be awesome.
 
Hashi90 said:
well i have just set out bottles with mice in them, so i am trying the bottle trick. My next question however is, are corn snakes attracted to other snakes? as in if i bought another corn snake, would the missing one go to it? Would she smell the new one eating and be lured out? Im trying just about anything right now and I am a new corn owner. i bought her on march 18th and shes been missing since the 1st of april. Shes about 28 inches long and as wide as a penny. Im still searching, i know they can last up to 8 weeks without food, so i havent lost hope yet. any more suggestions would be awesome.
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The snake lure idea wouldn't work unless the lost snake was a male looking for love and the new snake was an ovulating female. This probably wouldn't be the case, so I would advise against buying another snake for that purpose.

If it's any help to know, she can probably go for more than 8 weeks without food, if she can find water. I've never had a "real" escape. But I've thought about what I'd do if it happened. I'd probably find a spot against a wall, within 5-10 feet of where the snake escaped, and I'd put down a heating pad. Then I'd layer enough tile, cardboard, magazine(s), etc. so that the surface temp was somewhere around 80. Then I'd set up a bottle trap with prey AND water and place part of the bottle on the insulated heating pad. I'd also set up several other snug, open-end-box type hides on and around the pad. The corn would have the means to meet all its needs in one small, well-monitored area. The idea is untested, but it makes sense to me. :shrugs: Good luck.
 
When my snake escaped,,I searched for a good while,then got pissed and said, "the hell with ya,you don't want to be found".She turned up 28 days later in my basement.Her tank is on the 3rd floor,,and she maid it to the basement :shrugs:
Thin and cold,but no worse for the wear.
 
wow that happened to me.....what help is flower but flower, sprinkle it all along the side of your wall,because snakes are going to travel along the walls the next morning you can look for the snakes tracks.....and you can sit in the dark with a flash light and listen for it.....but if you have holes in your wall its likley the snake got out to freedom
 
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