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Help! He's out of the tank!

You said it's in the computer room- it may be good to unplug your computer's tower. I've seen pics of snakes that have crawled in the vent in the back looking for a warm spot and it doesn't usually end well. I'm not intending to scare you, I just want the little guy to turn up safe. Maybe look in there with a flashlight or take the back panel off?

And don't limit your search to a certain altitude: my friend's baby escapee turned up 3 weeks later hanging out of the ceiling vent!
 
We raked the substrate very first thing, because that's what I thought too! Especially when he wasn't even under his water dish.. The viv's been emptied and sterilized and all for about a week now so he's deff not in there lol... One of the first things I did was shut all the computers and open them up, he wasn't there either.. I am still checking every day, I still have tape traps downstairs and upstairs as well! I am pretty sure he made it outside, but I even have traps out there in the hopes he'll remember where he lives! I check my garden and lawn and am always on the lookout even though I know it's a long shot and a slimmer chance every day that goes by, at least I feel that way! There's flyers up in town also with cash reward for safe return posted... Hopefully he comes home!! I'm keeping my hopes up.. =]
 
I hope you find your guy! I found ours under the refrig. There is a warm area under there. So look there as well. Our little guy was only 3mths old & we found him in 3 days. I couldn't sleep it was just a terrible time for me. My hrt goes out to ya girl! Hang in there! Look in closets, I had a friend who found his in his wifes luggage. :shrugs: Corns like to slither next to the walls & will follow the wall where ever it may lead under doors into closet areas. Lots of hiding areas there. HTH's
 
Thanks Vikkie, no frig, although it does look like he might have been under there at some point.. I found signs of slither with some dust bunnies... Shelliebear, a friend of mine told me to play all the HP movies and surely he would come home lol.. Thanks, all! Will deff still keep you updated as the weeks go by...
 
Terribly sorry he has not been found yet. :(
I -WOULD- pull out my wand and cast "Accio!" for him, but you know how it is with us squibs.
(Yes, I'm a huge Harry Potter NERD! lol. Can't live without it)
I really do hope he is found, I had a scary experience with my new ball python today--his door was left open! Luckily he was too busy snuggling up to his fake Bonsai tree to even notice. :/
 
My corn has escaped a couple of times though luckily she's never been missing for more than a day, I have a tendancy of getting so worried I'll rip whatever room apart to find her. :grin01: Still, they manage to wind up in some of the most unexpected places. One time I found her reasonably high up on my book case, squished BEHIND a row of heavy books that I'd never thought she'd be able to get behind, and the other time she wound up in the top drawer of my bedside table about half a day after she'd gone missing, turns out my boyfriend had closed the drawer without looking in it, thinking the gap was too small for her squeeze into.

Still, very sorry to hear you still haven't found your snakey. :( All I can say is look EVERYWHERE, though I'm sure you've probably already done that, and keep trying the tricks other members have suggested. I really hope you find him. :)
 
I just got my okeetee corn snake on Sunday and I am so worried that she ( Eva ) going to escape , so I check and check make sure that she is in terrarium . I feel your pain . I really hope it all works out .
 
When I lost my blizzard, Apollo, he was gone for nearly a month. I put corn starch around all edges of the wall, and I would find that he was VERY active at nite when I was asleep.
Then, I placed crinkly paper around some good hiding places, one with a pinky under it, and I woke up one nite to hear crinkling, and found that the pinky, and snake, had dissapeared.
I put double sided tape around the walls after cleaning up the starch, and only found that once, he used the tape to shed, and another time, he just balled it up and went on his merry way.
One time I saw him crawling across my bedroom floor when I walked in in broad daylight, but he was too quick for me.
Then I made a soda bottle trap: I cut a small hole (just small enough for the snake to fit through) in the side of an empty two-liter, with the lid on, and put a fuzzy inside for him to eat, hoping that he would be too fat to escape. Usually, these traps should work! However... The next day, the fuzzy was gone, replaced by a giant blob of poop.
I ended up finding him because I left the lid to his tank open. I looked over at his tank to longingly imagine that my snake were inside, only to see him crawling back in to the tank.

It's good to do all of the things people have reccomended (I suggest the crinkly paper!) and then sit in the room in which the trap is in with a flashlite and shine it on the snake as you hear it. It should be stunned and still.


Good luck!
 
I just tonight found our normal who had been missing for 2 weeks. We were watching the movie "Sssssss" at 3:00 in the morning. Stay up late and watch snake movies!
 
We have the same tank that you have. It came with one of those water dishs with the blue paint on the inside. It has a ridge underneath where little babies can nicely crawl into and hide. One day my son called me frantically that he couldn't find the snake and he picked up the water dish to check under the substrate and I happened to look under and found him crammed in there under the little lip of the dish.

Good luck. I hope you find your little friend.
 
The search is still on everybody.. I am just going to stay patient and wait. There's not much else to do when all the other traps haven't led to much... Nagini turned out to have some kind of virus or cold that left him dehydrated, then had some mites. Vet gave him something or other and he has been doing awesome! When we went to dispose of him he was of course not dead, so Hubby calls him a zombie now. We picked up a motley patterned Snow corn named Quinlan, and I'm planning on getting a Creamsicle corn as soon as they're ready.. They were officially "born" on the 17th so we're just waiting for a good shed and a couple of feedings before my guy will sell them! Still have a tank set up for Voldy, I can't thank everyone enough for their help =] This will never happen again, knock on wood!
 
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