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Help!!!!!

stangugrl

stangugrl

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Yesterday I bought a 6 month old sunglow female($70) and somehow between 12 midnight and 7 this morning she got out of her viv!!!!!!! :eek1: I have searched top to bottom in the room that the snakes are kept in, and she is nowhere!!!!! :cry: I tore that room apart!!!!!!! I have been looking for her since 10 this morning...Can you guys give me any pointers? I am in such a depressed mood because I finally found 'the' corn I have been looking for and gave the guy the last of my money to have 'the' corn!!! Please help :cry:
 
Check the viv again. Its amazing how they can cram under a waterbowl or burrow in the bedding and you think they're out. If she is out, take heart that many of us have had snakes go missing for days, weeks or even months only to have them turn up 2 feet from the viv.

How big is she? Check the 2 meters around the viv first, it's most likely she hasn't gone far.

I had the same thing kind of happen to me recently. I bred my first butters and chose my keepers and then the female got out. A wek later she was on the bathroom floor scooting along! They turn up more often than not.
 
princess said:
Check the viv again. Its amazing how they can cram under a waterbowl or burrow in the bedding and you think they're out. If she is out, take heart that many of us have had snakes go missing for days, weeks or even months only to have them turn up 2 feet from the viv.

How big is she? Check the 2 meters around the viv first, it's most likely she hasn't gone far.

I had the same thing kind of happen to me recently. I bred my first butters and chose my keepers and then the female got out. A wek later she was on the bathroom floor scooting along! They turn up more often than not.
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Well, I have turned the room upside down...I took everything out of the viv and double checked the room 3 times!!! I sure hope I find her....I am all to pieces....I even left work early today because I could not focus! but thank you for your help....I put a towel at the bottom of the door so if she is hiding really good in the room she can't get out!!!
 
stangugrl said:
Well, I have turned the room upside down...I took everything out of the viv and double checked the room 3 times!!! I sure hope I find her....I am all to pieces....I even left work early today because I could not focus! but thank you for your help....I put a towel at the bottom of the door so if she is hiding really good in the room she can't get out!!!
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Sorry I meant to tell you, she is about 1 1/2 to 2 feet
 
In the meantime, put some water out for her. She'll eventually get thirsty and will need water. If it's been awile since she's eaten you can try and bait her with some food. Also try setting your alarm to wake you in the middle of the night, they'll often come out at night time and that can be a good chance to find them. I know it can be frustrating, scary, stressful to have a snake escape, but be patient and hopeful. They pretty much will always turn up sooner or later.
 
Well thank goodness she's not a tiny little hatchling, they're a lot harder to track down than one that has a few months growning time on them like yours.

The unfortunate thing is you need to look in and behind EVERYTHING very thoroughly. My butter turned up about 5 feet from where I lost her 7 days earlier and I'm sure she was right around there the whole time. I too totally turned my place upside down...hang in there, you'll be OK!
 
blueapplepaste said:
In the meantime, put some water out for her. She'll eventually get thirsty and will need water. If it's been awile since she's eaten you can try and bait her with some food. Also try setting your alarm to wake you in the middle of the night, they'll often come out at night time and that can be a good chance to find them. I know it can be frustrating, scary, stressful to have a snake escape, but be patient and hopeful. They pretty much will always turn up sooner or later.
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K, she was feed a bigger than usual meal on monday...and before I went to bed at 12 I gave her fresh water! I hope she turns up...I will keep an eye out tonight and hope she comes out of where ever it is that she is hiding!!!
 
I understand how you can feel.... it's a horrible felling to lose a snake, very depressing...

Yesterday, I lost my snake too... He is 2 month's old, and I had it for 2 weeks. He got out of is x-terra vivarium... he went behing the fake rock, and escape through a little hole on the top (the hole is a size of a pen, I could'nt beleive he escaped throught such a small hole). When I got home from work, I looked in the vivarium and could'nt find him... I was freaking out !!!

I was feeling very depress the hole night.... Then just before I went to bed, my cat (who was sleeping) suddenly wake up and look under my bedroom door (my snake was in my bedroom)... immediatly, I jump up and look behind the door.... My ****ing snake was there !!! So I pick him up (before my cat do) and put him back in his little home.... then I sealed the hole thing (vivarium) with scothtape... Luckily my cat was there to find him...

Anyway, it really suck for you..... I hope you will find him soon....

Good luck !!
 
I just had my 5 week old get out on me. I searched the whole place over twice a day for three days and never found him. On the night of the third day a guest who was over found him in a spot I'd checked every time I looked. I guess he was on the move some and managed to totally elude me. Keep looking, he'll probably show up. I was suggested to use those sticky pads for catching mice but after actually catching a mouse in one I see they are not very humane at all and after rescuing my corn from a nasty tangle in some electric tape I don't know if I recommend using a sticky pad.
 
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