I have been wanting to better organize my feeders as I buy frozen in bulk 2-3 times/year. I hate using a million freezer bags and have been fighting freezer burn with my smaller sized feeders if I separate them out.

Most of my snakes are juveniles or subadults so we weigh out their food frequently rather than bulk freezing a full feed days worth of rats in a 'rat pack' I prefer to either have bags by size or individually sealed feeders that I can label by weight.

I tried sealing some of my larger feeders individually, most of an order. The ones I vacuum sealed exploded when thawed Every. Time. As a rule we don't ever risk feeding them if they pop. Not willing to risk decomp or somehow cooking the feeder not to mention our picky eaters often refuse their food even if they rip it. (Gotta love clumsy BPs) Basically just created a lot of waste from what was supposed to be time and space saving.

Thawing process was the same as all my other feeders that were just in bags which leads me to believe it is something with how I am sealing them. Do I need a different kind of vacuum pouch? Do I need to work in smaller batches so they spend less time out of the freezer?

My assumption is that sealing them while unpacking the order was my downfall and they simply spent too long out of the freezer and off the dry ice but I figure asking the experts out there never hurts and may save me a lot of headaches!

I may just go back to freezer bags but plan to give vacuum sealing at least one more shot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Frozen rat storage is becoming my special interest at this point...