My Green Bottle Blue sling recently made a rather superb escape out of its parlour. The sling measures approximately 2cm, and is enclosed in a 15cm x 30cm glass parlour. The little guy/gal managed to ellude me for quite some time and to be honest I gave up thinking it had vanished for good. Then recently my folks reported seeing it chilling on a sheet of paper so they decided to place it ontop of its enclosure, hoping that it would decide that it has had enough of the outdoors and crawl back in. Sadly this was not the case, the mischevious creature decided to further its sightseeing elsewhere. Fortunately due to a little resourcefulness and detective work I managed to track it down and place it safely in a DELI DISH this time lol! I think it useful to document such escapes as it may help others find their t's that have decided to abscond. :lol:

I had exactly the same experience with one of my slings recently. It seems that I had not completely clipped the lid on the deli tub, and I imagine he was able to pry it open enough to squeeze through. It actually took me two days to realize that anything was wrong - after all, you don't expect to see a pet hole. Indeed, I only noticed that something was afoot (pardon the pun) when I saw a small leg sticking out from behind another terrarium. Fortunately, said sling is back safe and sound. Now I check and double check that the lid is on properly every time I open it. :blush:

I had the tendency to leave my enclosure's lid open with about 1cm so that my T's can get fresh air. :whistle: One morning when I got into my room my Curly (probably about 6-7cm) was already climbing around on my bookcase risking a fatal fall! :ohmy: I quickly picked the T up on one of my files, moved her and her enclosure on my bed and persuaded her to get back into it.

On another occasion, while me and my friend was chatting in my room, we heard the sound of glass tingling against glass. I stood up to investigate and saw that my L.Parahybana (4-5cm) had the power to lift the lid of his enclosure! :blink: The tingling was the lid shutting close again. I have since learned to put stuff on the enclosures, heavy stuff

I have had small snakes escape from enclosures before and figured out a neat trick that works well with recapturing escaped snakes. I take 30cm pieces of masking tape and put it along the walls of the room with the sticky side up. The little rascals will eventually trap themselves in the tape. You must just check the tape regularly to make sure they don't stay trapped in the tape for long and stress to much.

I have obviously changed my doors so that nothing larger than a dust mite can escape under them.

I'm sure there are some one on the forum that has a fail safe plan to recapture escaped T's.

I use velcro (25mm) to secure the lids of my T's enclosures to make sure I don't do the irresponsible thing to let a T escape into the "wild" of suburbia. Take the soft side (loop) of adhesive velcro and stick it to the side of the enclosure close the the top and and on the lid, then use the hard side (hook) of normal velcro to secure the lid to the side in two or three spots.

One of my Curlies also escaped on Friday.
I had rehoused it a while before that and put in new peat moss, which I later thought was
too wet, so on Friday I opened the lid and put my foreseps in the opening as a stopper so
that the moisture could evaporise a bit faster - about a 1.5cm gap. I thought that he/she was so nicely settled in it wouldnt bother escaping, but that afternoon I found an abandoned enclosure!
I immediately closed the door and windows and me and Gregg started looking for it, fearing that we might step on it or squash it when lifting furniture.
I found her on one of the curtains - probably heading for the openings of the window frames where air from outside was coming in..

Garfield wrote: I have had small snakes escape from enclosures before and figured out a neat trick that works well with recapturing escaped snakes. I take 30cm pieces of masking tape and put it along the walls of the room with the sticky side up. The little rascals will eventually trap themselves in the tape. You must just check the tape regularly to make sure they don't stay trapped in the tape for long and stress to much.

I think you should rethink this "neat trick", Any kind of sticky tape is not good for snakes, For one it can really heart the snake, and the more the snake struggles to escape the more it gets tangled in the tape.(Masking tape mite not be very sticky but still.)
You can end up hurting your snake badly, I'm talking from experience as well, with Box tape and a corn snake's tale.

Her is a link to what can happen to your snake, if it gets stuck in tape.
This is why NEVER use sticky tape EVER!! **Graphic**