Feed again or wait a week?

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Originally Posted by Sauzo

Instead, you run the chance of your snakes eating parasites that the rat is carrying inside and outside of it :P

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You had to shut me down didnt you... :rofl:
True that can happen....luckily for me the same fam pet store guy that breeds his own Snakes & Rodents has been here in business 2 miles from me.. Ive dealt with him for 20 years now.

I raise my own rodents and do fresh killed, never had one explode or get stinky or rip open or get a bloody nose, even with my 10 pound retic eating them. Plus I like the prep only takes a couple minutes to gas them with CO2. Of course I have to clean rat tubs a couple times a week, but I think it's worth it.

Closest pet store near me is almost an hour. And they're all big name pet stores so I'll probably just order online until I build my rack (looking into a 6 wide x 4 high) and aquire a few more snakes until I start breeding rats. Even then I'll probably still use f/t though way more convenient if I have to many or not enough


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I've had a few fall apart and it's nasty. sometimes they seem old and freezer burned from petco so I've stopped buying there. a time or two I think I over heated them and that was the cause. I'm now driving out of my way to a pet store that gets locally produced, much higher quality mice/rats. for the mice I heat up a pint of water for about 45 seconds in the micro wave, till it's very warm but not too hot to keep my finger in it. I place the mouse in a zip lock and weight it down with a spoon and leave it for a half hour or so. then I take the mouse out, warm the water again and sit it for another 15 while I hold the snake. so far, between our three snakes they are eager eaters this way. with medium rats, I thaw them longer before warming them up and I use a larger water container.

Everybody's got good advice I'm gonna try either placing in bag in room temp water while I'm at work or Luke warm water for an hour or so til defrosted and then probably warming with running hottish water for a couple minutes til the correct temp. We'll see I ended up defrosting for a few hours this morning in water and heating up in heat lamp then placing the rat on a cardboard box inside of his enclosure. Since I only worked 5 hours today I just left it in there and it was gone when I got home.


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