Thawed How?

[adamanteus]

Just left to thaw out naturally.

[chris-uk]

Pop pinkies and fish in a jar of warm water. Small pieces I thaw in the air. I've occasionally thawed whole pinkies in air, but that's been when I was trying different things with reluctant feeders.

[ChareiHeals]

Usually we defrost pinkies and fuzzies in a ziploc bag sitting in a bowl of hot water.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Fish in cold water, mice in air (usually on an aquarium lamp or in a bag in warm water).

If I had a small collection I would do my rodents this way. I thaw my fish in cold water, but I don't really have anywhere to lay out 70+ rodents and chicks until they have thawed... it would likely take up a space as large as our whole dining room table! I know some people who pull the rodents out of the freezer and put them into the fridge the night before, then when they get home from work the next day they are thaw. Again... I don't have anywhere in my fridge for all of those.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Worm and fish in cold water I leave pinkies to thaw out on they'r own because for some reason she liked them better that way

did I read this right? you freeze worms? and thaw them out? are they a gigantic pile of mush when they thaw? I have had worms accidentally freeze in the fridge and they turned to mush upon thawing.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

They stay intact when they thaw out every time. Ive only frozen worm bits,it may be a different story if I froze whole worms.

[Invisible Snake]

Usually we defrost pinkies and fuzzies in a ziploc bag sitting in a bowl of hot water.

I do the same thing with all my f/t rodent feeders. I recommend this to anyone who thaws out larger rodents because of the smell.

[infernalis]

Where to start...

Olive python, Spilotes, blue beauty, cave dwelling rat, black tail cribos, all of my NA rat snakes, all of my carpet pythons, and a few other things I can't think of right now

I don't have anything that eat chicks exclusively, I just offer them alongside rodents as diversity... snakes LOVE chicks! And eggs too! So when I can get them, fresh eggs are readily eaten.

That is so cool...

[chris-uk]

Shannon - do you feed egg to your garters? If so, how do you feed them eggs and what sort of eggs? I can't imagine that they'd manage anything bigger than quail eggs, so I'm guessing that your mention of eggs is for feeding your larger snakes.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Shannon - do you feed egg to your garters? If so, how do you feed them eggs and what sort of eggs? I can't imagine that they'd manage anything bigger than quail eggs, so I'm guessing that your mention of eggs is for feeding your larger snakes.

No eggs for garters... I have never had eggs small enough for them to eat! they are for all of the other snakes in my collection.