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Potosh

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Hey everybody...
Sorry if this post is in the wrong subject, but I am having one of those days where I am just laying back and reading through a lot of the archives and enjoying the stories that people are writing about their little buddies. They are all fascinating, but one fact that I have stumped up upon numorous times is that a normal person has had their snake(s) escape from their vivs at least once or twice while they owned them.
My quesion is this, are the majority of these people containing their snakes in "one snake vivs" OR in snake racks containing 10' and 20's of snakes where I can see it being harder to keep track of all of them?
Currently I have my 2 month old hatchling in a 20 gal. long viv with a sliding top with a plastic pin holding it shut as well as two pieces of tape around the corners. I hold him daily, but always make sure that everything is proper again before leaving the room. Sorry for the long post, I am just worried and want to prevent any possible MIA's in the future.
In shorter terms, how many people using 20-30 gal. tanks misplace their snakes? I also love reading your stories, so include them if you can. Thanks
 
I don't know of anyone that keeps many snakes together. Most people I know keep all of their snakes separated. I think the cages that some people keep them in are just not secure enough.

So far I've never lost a snake and I hope that I never will. Here's a story for you though.

One day, almost 2 years ago when my 2002 ghost was still only about 10 grams, I had rigged up a little feeding container that I could leave in the snake's cage (she was a shy eater at first). It was made out of an empty kleenex box and an empty DVD case without a plastic cover (from the endless supplies of AOL CD's that I keep getting).

I would put the snake and her pinky in the kleenex box and "close it" by placing the DVD case ontop of the opening in the kleenex box.

This method worked great for a while, but then one feeding I went in to see if she had eaten the mouse and the DVD case was knocked off of the kleenex box and she wasn't in the kleenex box anymore. I searched and searched her cage, under substrate, under hides, everywhere, freaking out more and more each second that passed. Then I picked up the DVD case I had set to the side and noticed it did feel a little heavier. I opened it up and there was my baby girl, curled up in the middle of the case with a full belly.

Apparently she had gotten strong enough to push her way out of the kleenex box and had decided that the DVD case was more secure than any of her other hides. I left the DVD case in her cage for another month or so as an extra hide box, until she got too big that I thought she might get stuck in it. I wish now that I would have taken a photo of her in there b/c she did look cute all curled up around the center.
 
I have one that can leve her locked critter cage when ever she likes. How she does it is beyond me. It only happens every once in a while but I always find her before I know she is missing.

I have never had one escape from one of my rack though. Then again I have never had her in a rack...she might prove me wrong.
 
Find her before I know she was missing??? What? If you find her, she's obviously not missing....do you mean you get her as she's trying to escape.....but then you'd know how she did it.....I'm confused
 
It means that I will find her hanging out somewhere before I even now she has escaped.
 
most people just forget to put locks on their cages when the snakes escape. mkae sure the locks are in and u'll be fine
 
I have one who cnecks every night to make sure the lid is secure. She is a little Houdini. But everything is double clipped and escape is impossible, BA HA HA HA HA HA They are stronger than you think and will get out if they can fit their head through the hole. Escape may not happen to evryone but it will happen to a majority of us eventually.
Peace Paul
 
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