So when I went to check on my hissers before I went to bed, I took a head count, and noticed I was one shy. Oh geez. After removing the visible three I proceeded to destroy their enclosure, scoop spoon by spoon of dirt out before finally deciding it wasn't inside. My room still a wreck from enclosure work, there were literally hundreds of places the little guy could be. Now I'm not afraid of roaches, especially hissers. Queue parents. Mom is deadly afraid. If she found out...Uh oh.
After some thinking, I sat there wondering if perhaps I was the butt of a joke to see if I would fess up if one of my insects ever escaped. Still, I went into the garage, emptied a bin used for storage and proceeded to take it upstairs and slowly remove and check everything on the floor. In the process I spilled water from the humidifier all over the mock wood floors. Cleaned it up. Went to move the humidifier. It was still full and spilled -_-. Anyway, ten minutes and a whole roll of paper towels later, I was finally onto the clothing portion of the room. Grabbing a bag, I reached into the pile on the floor in the middle of the room and shirt by shirt, shook and placed it in the bag. Reaching the end of the pile, I panicked, wondering where to look next when suddenly a hint of movement in the top of the bag caught my eye. Looking to it, there's my little escapee! Breathing a sigh of relief, I jarred him and now have all 4 in jars until the morning when I will redo their enclosure. Lol. All I could think of post-capture was of the thread I read the other day titled "most fail ever". Might have one upped it lol. Well, just thought someone might enjoy the story, especially since five times I told myself he wouldn't be in the shirts and planned on just throwing them in the bag and tossing them downstairs (it even occured to me that it would be terrible if it was in fact in the shirts and when I put it downstairs it invaded the kitchen...Worst possible situation lol.
Anyway, yeah, that's my story lol. I didn't realize hissers were such good escape artists! I had taped the entire lid to prevent such a thing and somehow (I'm still uncertain), he managed to houdini his way out. Looks like someone just earned a nickname! Lol. Anyway have any tips for keeping them in? Thanks and goodnight!
Matt
After some thinking, I sat there wondering if perhaps I was the butt of a joke to see if I would fess up if one of my insects ever escaped. Still, I went into the garage, emptied a bin used for storage and proceeded to take it upstairs and slowly remove and check everything on the floor. In the process I spilled water from the humidifier all over the mock wood floors. Cleaned it up. Went to move the humidifier. It was still full and spilled -_-. Anyway, ten minutes and a whole roll of paper towels later, I was finally onto the clothing portion of the room. Grabbing a bag, I reached into the pile on the floor in the middle of the room and shirt by shirt, shook and placed it in the bag. Reaching the end of the pile, I panicked, wondering where to look next when suddenly a hint of movement in the top of the bag caught my eye. Looking to it, there's my little escapee! Breathing a sigh of relief, I jarred him and now have all 4 in jars until the morning when I will redo their enclosure. Lol. All I could think of post-capture was of the thread I read the other day titled "most fail ever". Might have one upped it lol. Well, just thought someone might enjoy the story, especially since five times I told myself he wouldn't be in the shirts and planned on just throwing them in the bag and tossing them downstairs (it even occured to me that it would be terrible if it was in fact in the shirts and when I put it downstairs it invaded the kitchen...Worst possible situation lol.
Anyway, yeah, that's my story lol. I didn't realize hissers were such good escape artists! I had taped the entire lid to prevent such a thing and somehow (I'm still uncertain), he managed to houdini his way out. Looks like someone just earned a nickname! Lol. Anyway have any tips for keeping them in? Thanks and goodnight!
Matt
