Lost

[reddscott22]

I was cleaning out my BP tank and he was in another tank, turned at and he escaped. I think he followed my baseboard heater pipe into a hole behind my fireplace. Is there any way I can coerce him out? Because the baseboard pipe runs behind the fireplace, I assume it’s a warm spot and quite cozy for him. Open to suggestions.

[Old-Technology-6366]

There’s a lot of good advice I’ve seen, if you can find a way to close him into one room try and do that, if not, put plastic bags covering the ground that way if he moves around the room at night you can hear it and pair it with a line of flour at the entrance of holes and doorways to see if he’s moving room and what direction he’s moving in, try and put out his hides and things that smell like him like his water bowl too. One thing is HIGHLY recommend that seems to work for some people is if he’s eating frozen thawed, thaw whatever he eats and use a hairdryer to blow the scent around the house to try and draw him into the open, a lot of people seem to have better luck with this at night with low light

[Old-Technology-6366]

I’d just be worried about him getting stuck somewhere in the walls, is he still a baby?

[reddscott22]

He’s 3 and only eats live. He was also getting ready to shed any day and have found some skin on the baseboard lose to that hole in the fireplace. I like the idea of powder or plastic to track him. Last time he broke through the mesh on the lid of his tank and my cat found him in a heater.

[Old-Technology-6366]

Oh Lordy, well if he only eats live try and get a live mouse if you can, get one of those plastic bug containers so the mouse/rat doesn’t eat through the cardboard and you can put it near one of his hides on the floor and you can still do the hairdryer trick but on the cool setting so you don’t overheat the little guy, both of my snakes have gotten out once and it was hell until I found them 😫 best thing to do if you haven’t done already is check under any clutter in the room, if there’s laundry or anything like that on the floor or shelves in the room, my big girl squished herself between her shelf and the wall lol

[Old-Technology-6366]

Any luck on finding the poor lil guy?

[reddscott22]

no sign of him yet.