Ah yes, how did they escape indeed!
When the first one escaped from it’s tank we thought we must have left the door slightly ajar, but as experienced pet owners and many hours spent hunting gerbils and degus and hamsters we are always very very careful now about doors. Curiosly the door was only ajar about 2 inches which is odd because the door is either open open ie big enough to put our hands in or it is closed shut. There are two doors on the front of the glass tank, both glass, and both slide across from each end.
Two days later I noticed the big tank was also empty! Then I noticed that the door on the far side near the wall, behind my ornamental twigs was ajar by 2 inches. It was then that I knew for definite that the bloody snakes had opened the bloody doors all by them bloody selves!
I am furious that the snake shop owner who sold me both tanks never told me that snakes can slide open glass doors! He knows we are new to snakes and he never bloody said. He sold us the smaller tank as a complete beginner’s unit…with no locks. I didn’t know snakes could escape from them!
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