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SNAKE DEFIES GRAVITY! AKA: Lock your top.

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tracy0416

Tracy
Here's Jo out for a midnight "stroll" stuck to the top of her viv, clutching to the screen. She has a 1 mm ledge to cling to at the top and she found it.

The remarkable balance, coordination and strength of these beautiful creatures is so evident here.

If this isn't an arguement for why to weigh down your screen tops or lock your lids I don't know what is!
 

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I caught my guy doing this the other day too, as soon as he sees me though he falls. :) It really is amazing some of the things that they can do, have you noticed how they can expand the bottom part of their bellies to fit into cracks! Simply amazing. ;)


---Kenny
 
I catch Nagini doing that occasionally too. Everytime after I put her up I always like triple check the clips and pull up on the lid to make sure it's snug.
 
peek a boo does that. and she cant lift the top yet...but my cat is more then willing to "help her out" and lifting it for her to get her. and not in a nice way so yes.i make sure its always locked and i got a taller tank so she cant even reach it for now..
 
has happened a lot to me too. i found Trev sitting in the hood of his tank having got through the two screens. now he has two screens with 6 heavy books on them until i get time to make clips. i was also amazed by the ability to manipulate their body to fit to ledges.
 
My little Freya does that all the time. She's starting to get too big now though. Her top half still fits...but her bottom...not so much. Oh, and not only make sure to lock and/or weigh down the top...but also make sure she's not up there when you go to get her out. I forgot to look once and took the top off, stuck my hand in to start removing her hides, and all of a sudden, something touched my arm. I almost jumped out of my skin! Not to mention, I probably scared the poo out of her.
 
First you got your heart in your mouth because you think your baby is gone and then you start laughing when you see the little tail dangling down. Gaia did that all the time. Evern now at 35+grams she can still pack her cubby self up there. Danu is starting to do it also. Smokey, he tries to do it but he is way too big but still he tries.
 
Metallica use to do it all the time now that she is bigger she gets up there once in awhile but falls down after a minute or two.
 
DogStar5988 said:
I caught my guy doing this the other day too, as soon as he sees me though he falls. :) It really is amazing some of the things that they can do, have you noticed how they can expand the bottom part of their bellies to fit into cracks! Simply amazing. ;)


---Kenny
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Hahaha.....mine falls when she sees me too. They get that 'busted' look. Too funny.
 
Eddy does that all the time too(unless he's just eaten). One time when I first got him, I looked in the cage and didn't see him. Thinking he may have escaped, I opened the top and checked in the tank, no snake. When I went to close the lid I saw the back 3 inches or so of him slithering down the back of the lid. I grabbed him before he could get any further behind the desk(it'd be almost impossible to get him out of there!), but I think I scared him. It's the one and only time I got bit. Only time he's ever tried actually! I ALWAYS check the lid now...REALLY well!
 
tracy0416 said:
Here's Jo out for a midnight "stroll" stuck to the top of her viv, clutching to the screen. She has a 1 mm ledge to cling to at the top and she found it.
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I was given a viv with that kind of top, and wouldn't use it for the corns; I just knew they'd find a way out. I did end up using it for hatchlings, but as only part of a three part security system :)

Security Level 0: Hatchlings in entre containers, only one lid away from escape.

Security Level 1: Entre containers in aquarium. One lid and a climb away from escape.

Security Level 2: Sliding latch plastic top fit into aquarium. One lid, one climb, and a second lid away from escape.

Security Level 3: Mesh lid fit over top of sliding latch top. One lid, one climb, second lid and third lid away from escape.

If one gets out now, he deserved to be paroled :laugh:
 

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I like the security idea, but isn't it excessive? Not to mention, a little cramped? Don't they get a bit touchy being like that? I would.
 
serpentfinder said:
I like the security idea, but isn't it excessive? Not to mention, a little cramped? Don't they get a bit touchy being like that? I would.
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They're hatchlings, all less than three weeks old. In about a month, they'll be moved into Sterilite plastic shoeboxes. In the past year, I've had two young snakes, one a hatchling, the other about six months old, escape from containers I'd have sworn were escape proof. Until they're moved into roomier quarters, I want them under lock and key.
 
I've never been a breeder, of course. I can't believe that they could ever escape that though! But do they act touchy, or does it not matter because of their young age?
 
serpentfinder said:
I've never been a breeder, of course. I can't believe that they could ever escape that though! But do they act touchy, or does it not matter because of their young age?
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At this point, their entire frame of reference is inside egg, inside deli cup, inside entree container. They don't know anything else. The tight quarters makes them easy to monitor. They could escape any one of the restraints: an entree container lid may not snap tight, they can DEFINITELY climb the aquarium, there are slots in the inside lid a hatchling could squeeze through, and there is slack around the outer lid that a hatchling could fit through if it could life the top just a tiny bit. They won't be this small for long, and the entree container will be fine until they at least double in size, at which time they'll each go into a six quart plastic shoe box.
 
Jaxom1957 - I noticed names on each hatchling container. You name your hatchlings? How do you come up with all those names? Don't you get attached to them once you name them?
 
suecornish said:
Jaxom1957 - I noticed names on each hatchling container. You name your hatchlings? How do you come up with all those names? Don't you get attached to them once you name them?
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Sorry for the confusion, but I didn't produce these hatchlings. I bought them from Susan Willis, and they arrived on Tuesday. Had I produced them and they weren't ones I intended to keep, they would just have a label identifying gender, clutch and individual.

Names are either inspired by the snake, by the snake I someday want to breed it to, or by some theme running through my brain. Several of these hatchlings were named after entertainers. The anery mot is "Macey", after Macey Gray. The charcoal is "Erykah", after Erykah Badu. The normal mot is "Bone Thugs 'n Harmony", a rap group. "Holiday" is after Billie Holiday, but also after "Holiday Inn", the Xmas movie. As she will be paired with my snow het lav "Bing" (after Bing Crosby, the singer of "White Christmas"), Holiday seemed appropriate.

"Lacey", the lavender, was named for both her pattern, which reminded me of lace, and to match with her future mate, my lavender het hypo, "ShoeString". Shoestrings and laces.... :laugh: "Caruso" the hypo was named after David Caruso. My Miamis and hypos are all named after characters or actors on "CSI: Miami": "Caruso" for David Caruso, "Togo" for Jonathon Togo, who plays CSI Wolfe, and "Khandi", after Khandi Alexander, who plays the medical examiner. I have two 06 males from Joe Pierce named for characters on "NCIS", "Jethro", an Okeetee, is named for Mark Harmon's character, Jethro Gibbs, and "McGee" is named for Sean Murray's character, Tim McGee. When I get an Okeetee girl, she will be named after the much-tattooed lab geek, Abby.

The caramel is named "Charismo" because I bought him based on my reaction to his photo. He struck me as full of attitude and charisma. Finally, the two normals are named "Philbert" and "Hazel". For their names, let's just say I went a bit nuts :)

All my pets' names have significance, though there may be some complicated free association happening to find it :)
 
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