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how many escaped corns

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beardie

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ok i know we just had a post about this but i have heard about different peoples corns escaping and being found so if u want to tell your storie that would be great

any way all start

i came home from work he was gone i riped apart my apartment to find him after seting up a light and hopping that he will come back during the night so i woke up and there was noting under the light so i had to get ready to for work and on the way out i found him inbetween the top the door frame and door so i put him in a new tank when i got home
 
I had my adult female motley for exactly two weeks when she escaped on me. I had a cheap lid for the tank I had her in, and unfortunately she found an escape route. This was July 2002.

I looked everywhere humanly possible to do so. But my house is so old (circa 1850) that there are snake sized holes everywhere. I gave up after 3 months of searching.

After a hellacious winter, spring time came and I was out enjoying the early spring warmth and sunshine after being cooped up all winter. I was out clearing off the dead growth of my herbs and flowers next to the house when I spied something orange in some irises. I thought it was some trash blown in from the highway, looked like a Cheetos bag color from a distance, so I went to investigate. As I got closer it became clearly apparent that it was not Cheetos bag, but in fact my snake. I think my heart stopped at that moment. When I first realized what it was, I thought she was going to dive back in the vent of which half her body was hidden. So I slowly reached down and grabbed her, and she was ice cold to the touch, but alive. This was early March 2003, exactly 8 months after she had disappeared.

I got her inside and warmed her up and offered her some water, of which I think she drank a gallon. She was considerably skinnier than when she first escaped, and had several scars on her which she still carries to this day. I waited a week before offering her food which I learned that she had turned from a f/t eater to a live eater. I guess the mice in the walls of the house were plentiful enough to live off of, something which is a blessing and also an omen. Once I got her switched back to f/t she ate like a pig, tripling her size. I had her checked out at the vet and they gave her a clean bill of health. So that April/May I bred her and she laid 13 fertile eggs (first time breeder), and all hatched in August.

It's no wonder she's still my favorite snake, I think the ones with the wildest stories tend to really fit into that criteria. =)

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Wow!! Excellent story, and nice looking snake! I hope I never have an escape story to tell.
 
My older normal has escaped twice since Ive had him (When I still lived with my family, we took turns forgetting to tightly shut the enclosure). Once we found him in the vacuum....after my mother had started to vacuum (He came out with a few turned scales, but no real damage). The second time he crawled out of his tank and curled up in the blanket edges sticking out from underneath the tank, whihc were there covering his heating pad!

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My 10 year old amel female escaped last August. My lodger knocked the door of the viv open about half an inch when he bumped into it and we didn't notice for five hours. The snow female had stayed inside and the reverse okeetee male had made a break for it but we spotted him. As for Tish... I haven't seen hide nor hair of her since.

I'm still having nightmares about her getting outside and being found by someone who thinks she's dangerous. Just hope that she's found somewhere relatively safe and warm to spend the winter.

At least there might be hope that she'll turn up, even after all this time.:(
 
I've never had a corn escape, but I've had plenty of escapees.... Here are a few of my stories...

Jester was the first to escape, I thought I closed the lid tightly on his cage, but didn't. HE climbed into bed with hubby and I and we had a surprise at 4 am when I realized he was n the bed! He escaped one other time, again the lid wasn't on tight, and I woke up in the morning and he was hanging out of the bathroom toilet.

Bishop only escaped once, found him on a wall ornament, about seven feet off the ground, trying to reach the ceiling.

Got some wild caught ball pythons, had the five non-feeders in one tank, two escaped. One showed up in the middle of the bathroom floor.

Lost several hatchling snakes from a substandard hatchling rack I spent a fortune on, luckily they were mostly all found in the vicinity... one was found outside in the grass. Two are still at large. :(

Got a beautiful 50-50 cal king, she escaped out of a hole in the lid of the brand new reptile cage we'd purchased for her. Didn't notice the lid had a hole for a cord... she slipped right through and was never found. We've since moved so she is lost forever. Before we moved I did find two or three shed skins, some super fresh, but never actually found the snake.

When I stopped putting hatchlings in the hatchling half of my defunct rack, I pulled out the boxes, later found out that that loosened the top of the juvie boxes, had two juvie cal kings escape from those. Found one slithering in the kitchen, the other slithering in the bedroom. Luckily we found them before they found each other!

Had my Pyro escape twice, once I happened to be looking at her cage and saw her plop to the ground, second time I found her the next day on a mouse cage looking longingly down at the mice inside.

Worst part about moving with snakes, is working to get them all set up again. And we had to move at the beginning of a school year, with hubby a coach in a fall sport at the high school, and me his unofficial assistant coach. Made the mistake also of tripping and falling on one of our glass aquariums right then.... broke my foot, and lacerated my butt! Life sure throws some curves! But, except for the two hatchling kings, and the one WC ball python, all who got loose in the new house are accounted for. We don't mention the loose snakes to visitors.

I've been remarkably lucky with my corns though. They love to visit people, but don't seem inclined to escape.
 
I have a really interesting escape story.

My adult female Creamcicle has escaped and been found 4 times. Always due to holes in the screen... (I just re-did it tho so no more of that!)

Anyway, the last time she was missing for 2 months. I searched my whole apartment twice with no luck. I tried leaving food out in a box w/ a hole in it, I tried searching in the dark with a flashlight, everything.

Then one day I was laying on my bed and I happened to glance at the vertical blinds. Woven in between the runners at the top of the blinds was a shed skin!! She was alive at least!

This led me to search the apartment AGAIN and still, no luck. So another month passed, at which time I gave up all hope, and again I happened to glance up at the blinds one day and I say some orange INSIDE the part where the runners are. (You know the square part that actually hangs on the wall?)

I couldn't believe it! Turns out she was in there the whole time!

I finally got her out (which was no picnic) and she drank water for so long I thought she was going to burst! She hasn't tried to escape since. :)
 
I've got one of those tanks that has a plug at the bottom, so if you have something inside that has a cord you can run the cord through the plug. When I got the tank, this made me nervous so I not only secured it like they said to, but actually superglued the plug in.

I was going out of town for a few weeks, and my friend was picking up the tank, and my '03 anery Leonard with it. I go to make sure everything is secure...and the snake is totally gone.

Now ever since I've had him, I've been super-anal about closing everything up since the very first night, I didn't close the screen all the way and looked over to find him halfway out of it. So I didn't understand how he could have gotten out...until I realized that the plug had come out!

So I freaked out and searched everywhere. First right around the tank...but next to the tank is my closet, with about five billion warm snug places for a snake to hide. I moved out in circles further and further away from the tank, turning everything upside down in a methodical, but totally panicked, sort of way.

Finally, as I was searching through every pair of shoes, I stopped for a second and told myself to simmer down, just for a minute, and to think like a snake. I had remembered reading that almost every snake was found fairly close to the tank, and I was straying too far away. So I looked back at the tank...and then thought for a second.

I go over, physically pick up the tank, and there was Leonard. He had crawled out of the plug-hole. The edges of the tank itself rest on the table, but the glass bottom is raised up just a bit in order to accomodate anything you'd put under the tank. He had escaped, but was trapped in the crawl-space underneath the tank. I had just missed seeing him when I was searching through his tank the first time because he's sort of the same color as the table (black) and the substrate.

Needless to say, I not only glued the plug in, but put a piece of cardboard across that portion of the bottom of the tank so that even if it did come out, he couldn't get out of the hole.

Phew.

Oh yeah, and thanks to whoever posted that most escapees are found close to the tank!

Dara
 
This is true about them being close to the tank. In my story above, the vertical blinds were on a window right above the tank she was in. She crawled up onto my bed, and stretched up to the rod that you turn to open and close them, and must have crawled all the way up to get to the blinds. It's funny but I never thought to look "up" only on the floor and surrounding areas.

I read once that after you check around the tank and all corners of the room (corn snakes will follow the straight lines of the baseboards rather than head out across the room as the open space makes them nervous) then you should check on top of doorways and bookshelves, etc because corns are typically arboreal and like to climb.

I just remembered that. :)
 
I've never had my corn escape either. I just bought a good and tight wire mesh lid to start off with. It was like 13 dollars but it was worth it. My snake did try to escape several times but since I had a good lid she finally got discouraged and stopped. As long as you have a good cage setup and the snake has no reason to escape, it probably won't even try to. I forgot to put the lid on my cage one night but there was nothingwrong with the cage so the snake was still there in the morning. I'm not saying don't put a lid on your cage but.... Just my experience.
Sam
 
I think you got lucky. Mine likes her viv, but in the evenings when she comes out to investigate, I think she would just keep crawling. I don't know that it's so much a desire to escape, as it is just having an opportunity to continue along the line she was moving. She certainly likes to check everything out.
 
You're probably right. Mine used to do that too. In the morning there would be no sign of activity but as soon as nightfall hit, she would be crawling all around the cage and around the lid looking for a way out. It probably is just the wanting of the snake to continue its path.
 
My escaped corns...

OK..the first time I had any corns escape was the first year I produced hatchlings (in 2002). I had 5 hatchlings in one tank in my rack. My daughter decided to sleep on the floor one night and ended up pushing the tank out the back of the rack. All five babies got out. I only found three and I had to tear my daughter's room apart to find them. Of course, my favorite one was never found! I was having air conditioner problems, and I think the two that are still MIA went into the vent and outside. I put stoppers on the rack after that!

Another time in 2002, my daughter didn't slide one of the tanks into the rack all of the way. That baby got out, and I found him in the bathroom at the other end of the house. I think that he also used the vents to get around. Luckily, I had had them fixed by then.

Last year, one of my adult males got out (once again, my daughter left the tank open). He was easy to find since it was breeding season. I found him on top of one of the females cages.

We've had no other escapes since then. I guess I fussed at my daughter enough...she hasn't left any more cages open and I have worked hard at escape-proofing them!
 
i bought two corn snakes last december around christmas time and i didn't really have a good set up yet and was using a fish tank as a cage. Which i thought was okay since it was pretty tall, but the cover was basically only a light and a really messed up mesh screen with holes in it. I thought it would be an okaye temporary home for my snakes since it was at least a foot high and i didn't think my snakes would be able to get up there and escape. But i was wrong...one morning i woke up and checked up on them and i only saw one, so i began looking around in the cage checkign all the rocks and stones i put in and still only found one. So i quickly ran and shut my door and began my search for my snake. I heard that leaving a pinky out smelling like its own piss would draw the snake out of its hiding spot, but that didn't work. SO i literally tore apart my room and looked in ever possible spot, and when i was checkign under my bed (a storage area for odd's and ends) i lifted up a pile of papers and the snake fell out. I was happy that i found it so right after i went out to the pet store and bought a new cage.
 
Luckily my corn hasn't escaped. He's tried, but my aquarium has a slide on lid that even a skinny little baby corn can't escape from (but don't think he hasn't tried).

The garter snakes I had when I saw growing up always managed to escape. We had a regular aquarium with a screen top, and the clips to lock the lid on. But I guess they squeezed in the corners somehow, or something. Regularly they'd escape, but we always found them in the baseboard heater. We're just lucky that they didn't stray far, and the cat didn't find them.
 
I have mine in a fish tank too. When the snake hets bigger I'll probaly buy a reptile viv. But for now, I'm pretty sure a 20 gallon fisht tank will suffice for a 3 month old. Sam
 
garter snake escapee

i had a little garter snake and i came home and i saw that he wasnt there and had gotten out of a little hole that the covering must have come off and i hear my mom scream she was in the shower and guess who else was with her my little snake haha now shes really really terified of snakes looks like i wont be getting my corn anytime soon :( hehe but i stil have my 2 female leopard geckos ..Pandorah..and Zoe:D
 
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