F/T Question

Hi would do you guys do when you have thawed your rat or mouse and your snake doesn't eat do you freeze it again and if you do freeze it how many times would you do it.

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Originally Posted by Ernest

Hi would do you guys do when you have thawed your rat or mouse and your snake doesn't eat do you freeze it again and if you do freeze it how many times would you do it.

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I would never ever recommend freezing something that you've thawed out. I'm not sure of the ill consequences but I remember a thread like this before and everybody agreed that it's best to either feed it to another snake if you have one, if not then throw it away.

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What I have done in the past is I put it in the enclosure under the heat lamp for my RBS and within an hour it's gone. Sometimes they can be picky and like to eat in their enclosure, this is the main case with my little one, the two others usually will eat if I put them in a sterilite tub.

I thaw mine in hot water which usually takes about 45 minutes for everything. If I get one refused I will refreeze it as long as it has not been thawed for over two hours. Then if it is refused again it is fed to my big blood or tossed.

I thaw mine in hot water. If the snake doesn't eat it I will re-freeze the rodent once. If the rodent is left in the cage for several hours and the snake doesn't eat it I throw it away.

Refreezing once is fine.

I normaly refreeze rats but mice I feed to the cat if the snakes don't take it