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    How do you guys thaw your feed?

    I usually get a very hot tap water then microwave it about a minute or so then put feed in there for like 5 mins or so. How do you guys thaw them? Im just curious bc some people put it in the little bag and do something w it lol.


    Ps: do you guys think ball pythons are light sensitive?

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    I tried like 5 different ways in attempts to get Lex to eat. I tried the way you did, I tried leaving it thaw overnight in fridge and use the hairdryer to warm it. From feeling them they all came out about the same... the ones with hair dryer were dry the ones in the water were wet (water got in the plastic they were in). Tried a combo of both
    Finally gave up and went live lol.
    They are nocturnal so they don't really care for a lot of light

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    Put feeders in their baggies, thaw in a thing of hot water and leave them in there for a few hours until they're totally thawed (time depends on how big the feeder is), and once they're ready to be offered I shoot them with a hairdryer to make them extra warm and to get some of the feeder smell circulating so the snakes know it's food time. Works great for me.
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    I'm only thawing rat pups but I pit them in baggoes and then in a bowl with hot running water for 15min then turn water off and let then thaw for another 20-30min in the hot water. If that makes sense

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    Thaw them in a baggie in some water. After they are thoroughly thawed, I heat them a little bit next to the beardie's heat lamp (not enough to cook them, just enough to warm them up a touch).
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    I put mine in a zip lock bag, put hot tap water in a glad wrap Tupperware, put an empty can or something heavy to weigh it down. Set timer for 30 minutes, open bag, blow dry to fluff and warm a little, and feed

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    Your guys' ways sound so complicated! lol. Microwave, baggies in hot water, heat lamps.
    I used to go right from the freezer into hot water, but had a super poor feeding response.
    After trying a crap ton of methods for our picky eaters (who had gotten hooked on live because they went on feed strike), I finally figured out that 1) they prefer ASF, although I'm going to try switching to rats and 2) they don't like them wet.
    So what I do, is ration all my feeders into ziplock bags to go to the freezer. When feeding day comes, I pull a bag out of the freezer before work & just let the bag sit on the counter in a bowl until I'm home so they're 100% thawed & floppy. Then I blast them with the blowdryer for 1-2 mins and feed! Easy!
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    This is what I've done and what I've noticed:

    I put the rats in their own bag, and mice in their own bag. I, however won't put a small rat with a rat pinkie or fuzzy just because it's more annoying to try to hold them under water.

    So what I do is I put everything in the sink, and I put something heavy on top to hold them down and I get all the air out of the bags, or as much as possible. I then run the water fully hot(which I have my hot water heater turned down to 120 I think. The water on the hottest setting I can barely tolerate so it's good for heating up rodents without making them bust. I think one time I laser shot my hot water and it comes out around 116-117. Well what I do is I run it to where the water covers everything, and then about 15 mins the water starts to lose it's heat so I'll drain and run more water. I'll do this two sometimes three times, depending on if I'm in a rush. Well the thing about this is that they lose heat pretty fast, so usually the third cycle of water is what is still being warmed while I'm feeding off the other stuff. Sometimes if they lose that extra heat too quickly then I'll use a blow dryer to heat up a bit more and that normally keeps them warmer longer then the water and it also puts the smell in the air so it kind of triggers a better feeding response.

    That's what I do. My bee, black pastel & spider will take off the tongs when I hold by the tail and dangle in front of, but my lemon blast doesn't like seeing the tongs and so I have to grab between the shoulder blades and kind of walk across the tub with the rat pink.
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    From the freezer, they go to the fridge 24 hours before feeding. After they are out out the fridge, they get to room temp as much as they can for about and hour, right before feeding just a quick use of a blow dryer.
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    1. Take rat pup and put it in plastic zip lock bag.
    2. Leave it in fridge overnight
    3. Leave it in hot tap water for 5-10 mins.
    4. I have a KEURIG coffe maker machine so I turn that on and get a cup of HOT water.
    5. Dunk the rat pups head in the HOT water for 20-30 seconds than feed it to my snake.

    My ball python will only eat it right after it has been dunked in the HOT water otherwise hes not interested, I guess he senses the heat in the rat pup and goes right for it.

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