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17-Apr-08, 03:44 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 20  | | | Stimmies- the Escape Artist?
Hi guys and gals,
As some of you might know, I'm relatively new to the reptile world. Needless to say I've been doing a lot of reading, especially on Stimson's Pythons, which I have chosen as my first snake. I have read that Stimmies are great at escaping their enclosures. Have those that keep Stimmies had experiences with this? |
17-Apr-08, 03:54 PM
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17-Apr-08, 03:55 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | We have a tight-fitting lid with a brick on it - no escapes in 4 years. If you get a hatchling, you have to be careful about small holes. Our Bredls live in enclosures with sliding glass doors, so we have taped cardboard along the edge of the glass for now. It fills the gap so they can't slide out. When they are bigger we can remove that, but will stick with the glass cabinet locks to keep them in.
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17-Apr-08, 04:08 PM
|  | Confessed WOMAHOLIC Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-06 Location: Lakes Entrance Age/Gender: 28  | | | | i think the reason they have this persona is the fact that they are very small when hatchies
i have had one of my carpets who is now called houdini escape between the enclosure glass (about 3mm) and went on an adventure for close to 2 months and carpets aint exactly tiny as hatchies so no doubt a stimmie or a childrens can find ways to squeeze through alot of gaps
but on the other hand being a smaller snake you should be able to keep it in a smaller container untill it gets abit bigger
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18-Apr-08, 01:50 PM
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I lost my female stimy in January due to a tiny click lid hole. Never found her since, searched everywhere
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18-Apr-08, 04:38 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: WA | | | | Our meter long female is strong enough to pop the clips on an exo terra tank and then squeeze out the corner. We had to tie the top down with a rachet strap and she never quite accepted the fact that she couldn't get out again. She checked it daily until we moved her.
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18-Apr-08, 04:47 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Perth Age: 23 | | | | Snakes only escape due to poorly designed enclosures and incompetent keepers. Make the tub escape proof and you wont have an issue. If you think the snake might be able to escape, then it probably will.
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18-Apr-08, 06:24 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-07 Location: Melbourne Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Warr  Our meter long female is strong enough to pop the clips on an exo terra tank and then squeeze out the corner. We had to tie the top down with a rachet strap and she never quite accepted the fact that she couldn't get out again. She checked it daily until we moved her. | Which type of exo terra enclosures? im about to put a yearling stimmie into a 45cm cube.
would a weight on the top be enough to stop it?
To answer the thread question, i've only had one near accident when my dad left the cage unlocked and i came home to see the snake halfway out of its click clack. Close call. made sure i spoke to dad the next morning  |
18-Apr-08, 08:21 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: WA | | | | She was in a 60x45x60. She got on top of the foam background and pushed the top up.
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18-Apr-08, 10:13 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | | It amazes me that fellow herps have problems with escaping snakes. Just make your enclosure secure and you will never have the problem....... |
18-Apr-08, 10:23 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: sydney Age/Gender: 21 | | | | yes they are pretty good at it for this reason i steer clear of enclosures that are TV unit or cupboard conversions, they always get out of these. mine did get out once (completely my fault) but i didn't even realise it until i went to do some laundry and found him sleeping on top of the water heater under the stair next to where i keep the powder. he actually looked happy to see me too, it's was like "oh mummy there you are i;m bored now take me home"
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19-Apr-08, 12:00 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 20 | | | | Thanks guys! This is all really helpful! I was curious as my brother in law is going to make her enclosure for me. |
19-Apr-08, 10:39 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Hervey Bay Gender: | | | | When my husband built me a new enclosure there was a 2mm gap around the lid. He thought I was nuts when I glued felt all around it - but we haven't an escape! (knock wood!!!!)
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19-Apr-08, 10:42 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: West of the Great Divide Gender: | | | | Yep, Stimmies are pretty good at getting places you'd think they couldn't. I was fascinated just the other night watching one of my yearling Stimmies in his enclosure. He was moving across the top of the enclosure by flattening his body and squeezing it into the 5mm gap that the glass slides in. At one point he had only a few centimetres of his body squeezed into the gap and the rest was hanging out in mid air trying to reach another spot he wanted to get to. I spend alot of time now just watching my Stim's, just to see how they get themselves around their enclosure. It's quite amazing to see what these little fellas can do.
You'll definately be happy with a Stimmie. They are great little pythons! | |
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