Snakes getting out.. - Page 4

marvelfreak · 11-20-12, 07:14 AM

My big Jungle is in a Boaphile for a reason. Every cage i have ever kept her in she escaped or broke the cage trying to get out. I had her in a cage like Rob's She wrapped around the light and pulled till she broke the cord then squeezed her fat but out the two inch whole. I fix this so she couldn't do it again. So then she starts dumping her water bowl every day after i leave for for work. After about a week of this the wood at the bottom started getting wrapped and soft. She push hard enough and broke the bottom side out. Come home one day to fine her sitting in the kitchen. The Boaphile is the only cage i had her in that she has never escaped. If any cage had a week spot she fine it.

My Borneo escaped her tote a couple times last winter that's why i got the big Iris VE 175 (Christmas) totes. The old tote just had the snap down lid. The VE 175 has heave duty flip up and lock latches on both ends. The lid as a 1.5 to 2 inch over lap all the way around so there's know way for a smaller snake to squeeze threw. WHEN USING TOTES ALWAYS GET ONE WITH THE FLIP UP AND LOCK LIDS.

KORBIN5895 · 11-20-12, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by StudentoReptile

I certainly do not feel they should be used for large constrictors (i.e. boas & pythons) say, over 5-6 ft.

Even a carpet?

**Pareeeee** · 11-20-12, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by StudentoReptile

I certainly do not feel they should be used for large constrictors (i.e. boas & pythons) say, over 5-6 ft.

Agreed. They could probably snap any lid off of a fish tank.

EDIT: My BP is in a tub and will most likely stay in one, because tubs are better for humidity retention and also simulate a burrow.

infernalis · 11-20-12, 09:00 AM

I have often wondered just how a BP would behave in a huge enclosure
kept at Ghana temperatures and humidity. (Like I keep my monitors)

Will0W783 · 11-20-12, 09:24 AM

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Originally posted by TeaNinja: reminded me of a thread where someone's burm or retic Headbutted THROUGH their plexiglass front panel in a feeding response lol. never forgot that.

This was probably me. Trogdor, my huge albino Burmese python male, slammed against the glass of his Vision cage and cracked the door straight down the middle. There had been a tiny chip in it (I didn't think anything of it...but it apparently weakened the glass!). I had to call Vision and order a new door and put Trog up in a temporary cage until the new door came in. I was shocked...I knew conceptually how strong he was, but that was a good reminder!

Danimal · 11-20-12, 09:45 AM

I worked with a guy that impulse bought a large Burmese once when we were on a road trip. It was 12 or 13 feet when he bought it and he had no place to put it so when he got home he put it in his bathroom. It destroyed that bathroom.

That was a beautiful snake. He ended up making pretty good side money taking pictures of people holding it and selling it to them at the fairgrounds.

**Aaron_S** · 11-20-12, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by infernalis

I have often wondered just how a BP would behave in a huge enclosure
kept at Ghana temperatures and humidity. (Like I keep my monitors)

I bet they hole up and never move out of a burrow.

**millertime89** · 11-20-12, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by TeaNinja

reminded me of a thread where someone's burm or retic Headbutted THROUGH their plexiglass front panel in a feeding response lol. never forgot that.

My buddy's big burm bent the latch on her enclosure when she hit the front plexi.

StudentoReptile · 11-20-12, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

Even a carpet?

I would say so, yes. IMHO, a 6 ft carpet is stronger than most 6 ft colubrids. It's not just a flippant opinion; I have handled 6 ft carpets and I have handled 6 ft ratsnakes, kings and pits. I genuinely believe they're stronger.

Some may disagree, and my response to those people would be: maybe your 6 ft colubrids don't need to be in glass tanks either, because big ratsnakes, kings and pits can escape pretty easily out a screen top!

Strutter769 · 11-20-12, 09:03 PM

All of my escapes have been due to an error I had made.

EmbraceCalamity · 11-20-12, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Strutter769

All of my escapes have been due to an error I had made.

Not to be a smartass, but what else could they be due too? XD

~Maggot

infernalis · 11-20-12, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by EmbraceCalamity

Not to be a smartass, but what else could they be due too? XD

~Maggot

Cunning snakes,

infernalis · 11-20-12, 10:20 PM

This would be the thread to admit to a few of the more amusing escapes.

I had a garter snake escape his enclosure and enter a mouse colony and devour the pinkies. Somehow I got lucky and the adult mice did not attack and kill him for it. I found him fat and happy in the mouse cage.

I found my big Pueblan milk snake coiled up in a chair, down in my basement when I didn't even know he was out of his cage.

how he made it down to the basement from an upstairs reptile room is a mystery, His cage now requires a Phillips head screwdriver to open it.