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Connies dad
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 27/03/2012 : 14:48:08
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Hi guys.
I've got a 1yr old corn who is approx 18 inches long but still quite thin (about the size of a thick biro). she's getting too long for her original home, but I'm worried that if I put her in her lifelong vivarium she'll be able to escape through the gap between the 2 sliding doors. I don't really want to have to go to the expense of another home for her for what will probably only be a couple of months.
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0.1.0 Amel Corn - Connie (Still MIA)
0.1.0 Carolina Corn - Summer
0.1.0 Snow Corn - Ella
1.0.0 Pastel Royal - Monty
0.0.1 Leopard Gecko - awaiting name
1.0.0 Pug - Bentley
1.1.0 Rugrats |
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ozziesmum
Yearling
United Kingdom
736 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2012 : 14:56:10
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| I use plastic paper binders on mine and they work perfectly, I have some spares if you want some just pop your address to me on an email to jane@idealtd.uk.com and I'll pop you some in the post. |
Jane.
   
Oscar Black Lab, Saffron, Merlin and Mischief the cats, assorted fish, Rhubarb & Custard the corns, Tuppence the Tortoise, Tripod the Leopard Gecko.
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Okeetee Mick
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2308 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2012 : 17:23:34
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| Don't know what vivs you will be using but just measured the gap between the glass on my 3ft Vivexotic vivs and it is only 2mm. I know they are great escape artists but no way will a snake as thick as yours get through a gap that small, mine certainly can't. |
0.1.0 Okeetee (Sookie) 0.1.0 Powder (Luna) 0.1.0 Bloodred (Arlene) 0.1.0 Caramel Stripe (Tara)
0.1.0 Ghost (Crystal) 0.1.0 Caramel (Jessica) 0.1.0 Lavender Stripe (Portia) 1.0.0 Platinum (Godric)
0.1.0 Thayers King (Lettie Mae) 0.1.0 Albino Blairs King (Lorena) 0.1.0 Russian Ratsnakes (Pam)
0.1.0 Korean Ratsnake (Katerina) 1.0.0 Russian Ratsnake (Lafayette)
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tordyjo
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2036 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2012 : 18:07:28
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Originally posted by Okeetee Mick
Don't know what vivs you will be using but just measured the gap between the glass on my 3ft Vivexotic vivs and it is only 2mm. I know they are great escape artists but no way will a snake as thick as yours get through a gap that small, mine certainly can't.
Oh believe me they can!!!
My juvey of 12 months nearly escaped from my viv via the gap between the glass. He would have been approx the thickness of my thumb (an average womans thumb), i'd been out for the evening if i'd got back 5 minutes later i'd have had one missing snake - he was half way out from between the glass gap.
Never underestimate a snake thats found a way out |
 Lilly Crystal Harry
1.2.0 corns, 1.1.0 cats tropical guppies who continually breed
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Okeetee Mick
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2308 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2012 : 19:02:12
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Originally posted by tordyjo
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Originally posted by Okeetee Mick
Don't know what vivs you will be using but just measured the gap between the glass on my 3ft Vivexotic vivs and it is only 2mm. I know they are great escape artists but no way will a snake as thick as yours get through a gap that small, mine certainly can't.
Oh believe me they can!!!
My juvey of 12 months nearly escaped from my viv via the gap between the glass. He would have been approx the thickness of my thumb (an average womans thumb), i'd been out for the evening if i'd got back 5 minutes later i'd have had one missing snake - he was half way out from between the glass gap.
Never underestimate a snake thats found a way out
Are your vivs Vivexotic? Sorry but no way a year old snake will ever get through a 2mm gap, it's impossible. |
0.1.0 Okeetee (Sookie) 0.1.0 Powder (Luna) 0.1.0 Bloodred (Arlene) 0.1.0 Caramel Stripe (Tara)
0.1.0 Ghost (Crystal) 0.1.0 Caramel (Jessica) 0.1.0 Lavender Stripe (Portia) 1.0.0 Platinum (Godric)
0.1.0 Thayers King (Lettie Mae) 0.1.0 Albino Blairs King (Lorena) 0.1.0 Russian Ratsnakes (Pam)
0.1.0 Korean Ratsnake (Katerina) 1.0.0 Russian Ratsnake (Lafayette)
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smart bunny
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5091 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2012 : 19:32:40
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| I've ot a vivexotic and the gap is teeny! I still popped a paper binder on the inside door just to be super-duper certain - no way Corno can get through a 0.5mm gap lol! |
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cobweb251
Hatchling
United Kingdom
435 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2012 : 19:50:23
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| I had a similar problem to start my first going home orchialgia getting out almost recovered doors were closed no possible all most unconfining twice dose-limiting placable doors and only probably maybe Harpursville linear so I did was about half a cm wide. So I created a barrier now I bent some cardboard around both sides of the glass and selotaped both sides completely flat so not getting anywhere else. Creates a barrier so he cannot get through now. |
Edited by - cobweb251 on 27/03/2012 19:51:43 |
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tordyjo
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2036 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2012 : 19:56:24
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| not sure what make my viv is, but the gap is 5mm, you're right smart bunny don't think even a flea could get through half a mm, but the half cm gap, honestly he got through i don't know how, but he did, wish i had a picture now, there are others who have lost their corns this way |
LillyCrystalHarry
1.2.0 corns, 1.1.0 cats tropical guppies who continually breed
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Hissyfit
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 28/03/2012 : 11:06:32
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A folded piece of cardboard works well, just cut it to length and put in the gap between the sliding doors, at least that way you know for sure he's not getting out through the gap  |
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nickyff
Yearling
507 Posts |
Posted - 28/03/2012 : 16:26:16
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I ve seen two different wigglers jammed into the space between the two doors on an 18" viv- not vivexotic brand but almost identical, one was a teeny 5month old but the other was our sharon, not that long ago- and at the time she was way fatter thsn a biro.
the famous Errant Knave squoze his whole self through a half inch space, and he's over four foot and a good thick snake- about 2 inch diameter body.
when theyve got a mind to get through a gap, you'd be amazed at whats possible. |
and you thought there was no such thing as a stupid question....
1.2.0 corns: captain haddock, sharon the tiddler and Darling Debbie. plus 0.2.0 cali kings: spot and Numpty... not forgetting the delightful Miss Lovely-Gonzalez-La-Poop apricot pueblan milk snake, and we all miss the Lodger who thought he was a cobra....
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teabicky
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
23 Posts |
Posted - 28/03/2012 : 21:49:00
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Originally posted by ozziesmum
I use plastic paper binders on mine and they work perfectly, I have some spares if you want some just pop your address to me on an email to jane@idealtd.uk.com and I'll pop you some in the post.
Any chance of a picture? My corn escaped this way and he is currently banished to his old smaller viv, which is a shame as he seemed to love exploring and climbing. |
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smart bunny
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5091 Posts |
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ozziesmum
Yearling
United Kingdom
736 Posts |
Posted - 29/03/2012 : 09:48:03
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| teabicky, they are the same as in the above picture but clear, there are a few left if you want some drop me an email and I will post some out to you. |
Jane.
Oscar Black Lab, Saffron, Merlin and Mischief the cats, assorted fish, Rhubarb & Custard the corns, Tuppence the Tortoise, Tripod the Leopard Gecko.
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Mamma
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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smart bunny
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5091 Posts |
Posted - 30/03/2012 : 11:52:54
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| She is a little minx - can flatten right down to get through any gap and I just cannot get her to eat... :p |
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