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Locklynn · 11-29-04, 09:17 AM

I just got a snow corn snake saturday night...and sunday morning the lil bugger was gone...he escaped! If anyone has any ideas on how I can capture him please I beg of you let me know. He's so tiny I hope he's alright. I've tried leave a heat lamp and a heating pad out for him last night and no snake. I pulled apart my whole kitchen trying to find him.....I'm at my whits end. I'm going to try leaving a pinkie out for him tonight.. I pray I can find him. Once I find him his name will be Houdini.....for obvious reasons. I even called in sick yesterday to find him.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Locklynn.

sneaky_boa · 11-29-04, 09:33 AM

My very first herp (a corn snake) years ago pulled the same trick. I managed to successfully recover the little bugger by placing a pinkie inside a 2L empty pop bottle. I kept my eyes peeled and checked constantly, and when he went in to eat, I just picked the bottle up and transferred him to his new escape proof enclosure. It worked for me....give it a try!

Locklynn · 11-29-04, 09:47 AM

I will thankyou for your idea. I pray it works.

JD@reptiles · 11-29-04, 09:50 AM

check under and in everything around the cage. somtimes when they escape they will sit in the same place for a little while thats not too far away from there cage!.

Locklynn · 11-29-04, 09:56 AM

I have I tore my Apartment apart. I've even taken the back off of my oven, fridge and dishwasher.

susan · 11-29-04, 10:07 AM

i woke up this morning to find my durmil had escaped(never did before)checked whole house finally found him in my bedroom behind the dresser, now he 3 1/2 feet not so smallas yours . good luck

Buntin · 11-29-04, 10:17 AM

lol corns are escape artists i bought my first corn yesterday i put him in the tank and everything was fine then about 1.30 this morning my brother came running in telling me the snake had escaped i went in and there it was in the bin lol.... its lucky his girlfriend has got good hearing because she could hear the faintest rustling and told my bro to shut up he said it wasnt him and then checked the bin then he shat himself and woke me up lol

Locklynn · 11-29-04, 10:29 AM

Lol can i borrow her so she can find mine?!?!?!?

timminsreptiles · 11-29-04, 11:24 AM

i lost a 3' b&w king a few days ago. I looked everywhere and i cant find it.....i also tried the heat lamp thing and placed some food here and there to see if at least disapeared and nothing

Hope i find it......Lucas

HeatherRose · 11-29-04, 11:53 AM

Some of the most commonly used tricks to finding a lost snake:

- Check the room the snake was in for any holes/openings it could escape the room from. A lot of times, escaped snakes never even leave the room.

- 'Dust' your floors/doorways/corners of your room or house with flour, and keep on the lookout for 'snake tracks'.

- Check up high. You'd be surprised where snakes can climb up to.

- Leave a mouse/rat out.

- Leave a heat source out.

- Leave water out.

- For smaller snakes and colubrids, get a pop bottle (the size of which will depend on the snakes' size...for a baby corn you could try a 591 ml bottle). Place some kind of food item in the bottle (one that is a little bigger than the opening of the bottle. You may have to stuff it in

). Leave that out, and your snake can slither in through the opening, eat the food item and then be too big to escape through the opening to get out.

- Just wait it out. He will show up eventually

when my ball python escaped, I found him when I woke up to him knocking crap off my shelves.

Good luck Locklynn!
-Heather

rwg · 11-29-04, 11:53 AM

Fere's some things you can try. First of all, I'd try to put mesh over any vents she might be able to get into. Next, you can spread corn starch along baseboards and across doorways to detect the passage of the snake. Crinkly stuff placed around the floors can give away his movements as well.

LISA127 · 11-29-04, 01:40 PM

Mine escaped last week. Though she is a young adult, so a little bigger. She was hiding on the wall behind a picture frame. From what I understand that is common, so check there maybe.

clint545 · 11-29-04, 01:48 PM

I think heather covered it pretty good. I have read that a snake will follow a wall until it hits an opening it can squeeze thru, if that's any help.
I had a corn that escaped once, and after about 3 days I gave up. 2 weeks later my new roomate was moving in, they found him on the front stoop of the building soaking up some sun! So be paitent and don't give up.