Another one I remember from when I was a kid. My parents had bought me a old metal frame 20 long with an incandescent hood and a Rosehair tarantula. Our cat liked to lay on the warm lid and I must not have secured the lid well enough, because one day I came home from school and the lid was collapsed into the tank and the spider was on the loose. Never found the spider but we did find a molt a few years later when we were moving.
Lessons Learned: Herp keeping mistakes
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I have a few.
My brother being the genius that he is left a live rat in his ball python's cage overnight because he figured she'd just eat it then - turned out the other way around.
I messed up when I first started keeping snakes. I figured a baby pueblan milksnake wouldn't be able to get out of a ten gallon tank and that I didn't need to bother with cage clamps - I was wrong and I still miss that snake
Once my hubby forgot to put the top back on one of the snake cages, we left the house for like an hour and came back to the snake just chilling out on our bed.
Once when misting my old iggy I accidently sprayed the lamp and had the bulb explode on me. Scarred the crap out of the lizard (literally).
And last but not least - when I was younger (like 8) my parents bought me a RES with one of the little island bowl things with the plastic palm tree. Needless to say the poor guy didn't last too long.
That's about it for me though. In rescuing reptiles from people I have seen a lot of stupid things though, like a lady with a leopard gecko that wondered why her cat decided to chew on the thing's tail and the umpteen snakes I've seen with chunks taken out of them from rat/mouse bites
My brother being the genius that he is left a live rat in his ball python's cage overnight because he figured she'd just eat it then - turned out the other way around.
I messed up when I first started keeping snakes. I figured a baby pueblan milksnake wouldn't be able to get out of a ten gallon tank and that I didn't need to bother with cage clamps - I was wrong and I still miss that snake
Once my hubby forgot to put the top back on one of the snake cages, we left the house for like an hour and came back to the snake just chilling out on our bed.
Once when misting my old iggy I accidently sprayed the lamp and had the bulb explode on me. Scarred the crap out of the lizard (literally).
And last but not least - when I was younger (like 8) my parents bought me a RES with one of the little island bowl things with the plastic palm tree. Needless to say the poor guy didn't last too long.
That's about it for me though. In rescuing reptiles from people I have seen a lot of stupid things though, like a lady with a leopard gecko that wondered why her cat decided to chew on the thing's tail and the umpteen snakes I've seen with chunks taken out of them from rat/mouse bites
