trick to thawing rats?

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Originally Posted by Tazz27

This is the way I do it and it works like a charm..

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Me too. Just did it yesterday...Scolding hot water, thaws like a charm, and honestly I don't think the snake knows the diffrence. I put mine story in the QT room, FYI.

HHH

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Originally Posted by mykee

Why rei-nvent the wheel?
Toss your frozen rats in a rubbermaid and add the hottest water you can get from the tap. Drain water and repeat once an hour until the rats are thawed and hot.
Dry with a paper towel and feed.

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Just some fun anecdotal evidence here... The scalding hot water actually may start to cook the rodent, and weaken the body wall in the abdomen. The water logging only exacerbates that.

I did feed F/T by defrosting in hot water, but I had a lot of rodents burst on impact (if you know what i mean :/ ) and i dont like cleaning up rat guts. eww. lol.

thanks for all the good insight. what about switch a 700+ gram adult to f/t? any tricks?

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"I did feed F/T by defrosting in hot water, but I had a lot of rodents burst on impact "

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That's not because of the hot water. It's about your rodent suppliers rat quality.
I've easily defrosted 25,000 rats that way and never has one exploded, or imploded, or "popped".

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Originally Posted by mykee

Why rei-nvent the wheel?
Toss your frozen rats in a rubbermaid and add the hottest water you can get from the tap. Drain water and repeat once an hour until the rats are thawed and hot.
Dry with a paper towel and feed.

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Works for me everytime!!!

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Originally Posted by PweEzy

Whats the best way to thaw out a frozen rat. My smaller lesser switched to f/t easy but the bigger ones arent having it yet?Any tricks to switching to f/t?
Thanks in advance!

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Here's a link for how some ppl thaw their rodents.
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...highlight=thaw

As of now, I'm experimenting with 3 different methods of thawing. I'll post with details to the experiments when I'm finished.


-Johnny