Jamaican Boas Breeding

Here's number 8. Check out this little trickster.

Very sneaky baby!

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Oh God, I sympathise. My Candoia babies (born at 30cm/10 gms) did the same thing. Amazing the tiny gaps they can squeeze through. ALL mine climbed... found them on curtain rails and high window bars.

You may be right about the heat from the cabling, but I also wonder if it's just the perfect size for them to hold onto securely. Maybe you could form a "Trap" by hanging some cable shaded by cloth or something in a place you can access more easily?

Another idea I have heard from other keepers is to put down a water bowl and sprinkle flour on the surface around it so that they would make trails as they crossed.

Good luck - we found ours over a week of searching - and only lost one permanently. My fingers are crossed for you.

Originally Posted by Helenthereef

Oh God, I sympathise. My Candoia babies (born at 30cm/10 gms) did the same thing. Amazing the tiny gaps they can squeeze through. ALL mine climbed... found them on curtain rails and high window bars.

You may be right about the heat from the cabling, but I also wonder if it's just the perfect size for them to hold onto securely. Maybe you could form a "Trap" by hanging some cable shaded by cloth or something in a place you can access more easily?

Another idea I have heard from other keepers is to put down a water bowl and sprinkle flour on the surface around it so that they would make trails as they crossed.

Good luck - we found ours over a week of searching - and only lost one permanently. My fingers are crossed for you.

Thanks. I'm sure I'll manage to run most, if not all, of them down. I'm just really kicking myself about what a stupid mistake it was that set them all loose. haha.

Side note, at 10:30 pm, I managed to find #9 out for a stroll, so there's clearly some logic to my plan. Here's hoping to more.

3:30 am. As luck would have it, a water alarm woke up my daughter, who woke me up. After I fixed it, I figured I might as well go have a look downstairs. Found three crawling around fairly easily. 10, 11, and 12 are secured. Now that I've passed the half way mark, I'm starting to feel a little better about it all. I'll be back down here in a couple hours to see if I can catch any more.

Managed to snag one more at 5:30. This one was already coiled up for the day, though, so it looks like they stop being active before this point. I'd say a safe bet for their most active window would be 10-4. Maybe I'll stay up late tonight and try to get a few more.

Night hunting!!

I know it must be frustrating for you, but it's leading to some very amusing photos. Hope to hear you have cornered more tonight.

I've been scouring the room pretty thoroughly all day, including a couple of tries tonight at 10 and 11:30. Nothing. I don't know if I'll have the energy to get up in the middle of the night tonight, but hopefully a few will be visible in the morning.

For the record, I was total kidding when I joked about dozens of escapees a few months back. Wow. Good luck nabbing them all!

Originally Posted by Snakesitter

For the record, I was total kidding when I joked about dozens of escapees a few months back. Wow. Good luck nabbing them all!

Haha. I forgot about that. Maybe you should consider a new career as a psychic. Do you know where any of them are hiding?

Didn't manage to get up in the middle of last night, but I am headed down there now. Hopefully, a few of them have chosen some lousy hiding places.