Jamaican Boas Breeding

I agree, water outside would be a positive. Hopefully none of them went into the walls.

Originally Posted by Helenthereef

You don't think they'll get thirsty before they get hungry? A water bowl inside a bottle or something might make a good trap...

The only problem with that is that the room is full of water sources. There are lots of fish tanks and misting systems in operation 24 hours a day. There's no reason why they would be attracted to this particular water bottle. That's why I'm hoping for hunger to do the job for me.

Originally Posted by Snakesitter

I agree, water outside would be a positive. Hopefully none of them went into the walls.

Luckily, there are no walls in the basement. It is possible that they managed to get into some of the walls in the other rooms, but I'm hoping that's not the case.

Makes sense.

Well, I found number 14 this morning, but it's not good news. I pulled out the sprayer from the kitchen sink and it wouldn't go back in, so I pulled it out farther and found a little red tail wrapped around it. I carefully worked the snake out through the hole, but it appears to be injured about 23rds of the way down its body. The tail end is fairly unresponsive, and the snake itself is somewhat lethargic. I seriously considered euthanizing it, but I remembered that last year I had a couple of the escapees act very lethargic and limp as well and that it turned out to be mostly exhaustion, as they all came out of it quickly. I'm going to give this one a day to recover and reevaluate at that time.

The good news is that I also found number 15 up in the ceiling when I went searching this morning, and that one appears to be just fine.

And number 16 as well, hiding on top of the router in the ceiling. Something the last couple of days must have encouraged them all to move, because I found the last two in places I have checked repeatedly. I guess the lesson there is that if I keep checking the places they like the best, I'll eventually hit on almost all of them. The only problem is that the longer it takes to find one, the more likely it is for that one to find its way to somewhere dangerous, like #14 did.

I just realized that in all the confusion of the escapes, I never posted the pictures from the day they were born. Here are some of the better ones.

And here's some from a shoot today. This is Y14H3, who was in shed, but still looking pretty good, along with Y15H1, who was the one baby whose color stood out so much that I retained her (fingers crossed) in a separate tub when everyone else made their jailbreak. I feel these pictures really show the development over a year. You can see considerable size difference, as well as muscular development and the progression of ontogenetic color change. You can also see why H1 got held back, and why I'm expecting some great things from this year's clutch.

Love the worm pile shots. I see several of them were ready to take shots of their own at the camera. ;-)

Fingers crossed for #14, and bravo on #15!