Lost gecko and cool trap

[Whyshouldanyone]

So, we "lost" a leopard gecko, and my roommate's boyfriend devised a pretty cool trap and I thought I should post it on here.

He propped up a kitchen strainer with a bobby pin on the floor, and placed a few waxworms on the floor underneath. He tied one waxworm to floss and threaded it up through the strainer and brought it around and tied it tight with no slack to the bobby pin. It dangled in the air under the strainer, so that if the gecko pulled on the worm it would pull the bobby pin away and the strainer would fall on top of the gecko.

I could see potential problems with this trap. The strainer could fall on the gecko's tail or hurt the gecko, but we used a light plastic strainer and my gecko is very small so that wasn't a worry.

The trap wasn't actually used, because we magically found Killer sitting in her tank a few days later. Her absence remains a mystery. But, just thought the trap was a cool idea.

 

[Airedale]

A good idea, but my only problem other than what you said would be this. What is your leo ate the flossed waxie? I would think floss could cause some sort of problem (impaction maybe? Not really sure). But a really creative idea. Thanks for sharing! :biggrin:

 

[Allee Toler]

They actually do that with snakes.

They attach string to mice, and have trap boxes set up. So when the snake eats the bait, he's stuck because of the string. They simply pull the string out of their mouth, along with the feeder. Because it's kept cold, the feeder isn't digested.

I personally wouldn't ever do this. It seems almost cruel.

Next time Killer gets out try this:
Take a tupperware container, cut a hole in the middle of the lid. Only big enough for your little one to climb through. Put a bunch of feeders inside. Prop something next to the container on the floor so that Killer can climb up it, and get into the container. Once he's in the container, he can't get out. Because the hole is in the top, in the center.

I've used this twice, and set up traps a few nights ago to cat my little RAPTOR. Who was just sleeping in a shoe the whole time. Lol. It works flawlessly if you can find a "ladder" for them to climb up.

 

[Chewbecca]

We lost a hatchling about a month ago.
My husband had cleaned cages the night before, and the next day I was making my rounds on the rack, and came to his cage, and he was GONE.
Poof!

We set up a trap by using one of those gladware containers (about the size you'd use for an incubation chamber), and used a longer lid from a different container, and leaned it on the container.
We put mealies into the container.
We had no real hopes that we'd catch the hatchling. We thought for sure it had to be dead somewhere.

But sure enough, the next morning, we found the little guy sitting in the dish with the mealies!

Here's what we used:

And here's our little escape artist:

He had cobwebs on his head and hanging off of his mouth.
AW.