Do you Re-Freeze your uneaten F/T?

[Wh00h0069]

I don't.

[BuddhaLuv]

I use F/T medium rats and if Tanveer doesn't eat it the first time offered then I will refreeze. However, I never refreeze more then once!

[Clementine_3]

I don't re-freeze. On the rare occassion that one of my Carpets refuses a meal I toss it out the back door for the crows and other critters to eat. I figure something will be happy with a tasty treat out there.
I really think that once raw meat thaws it needs to be cooked or tossed...I know I would not like to eat anything that was warmed up, sat out for a while then was re-frozen! Seriously, it starts to rot as it is thawing. Yuck and oh, the germs!!

[Denial]

I usually dont have any leftovers when i unthaw food cause usually if someone refuses the next snake will just eat what that one didnt. But I have refrozen food items in the past. BUt never more then once.

[dracovolans]

Intersting results.



Has any one else witness the exploding experience?

How does this happen?

Is it because it start to rot?

[MasonC2K]

It's not really an explosion. It's typically the thin abdominal area becoming weak and bursting as the natural part of decay. It's happened to me and it's not pretty and the smell you never forget.

[Nate]

It's not really an explosion. It's typically the thin abdominal area becoming weak and bursting as the natural part of decay. It's happened to me and it's not pretty and the smell you never forget.

Exactly. the freezing, thawing, freezing, thawing cycle will weaken the skin over their intestines.

And no, it's not like a fire cracker exploding...it's just their guts start oozing out and the smell is one of the worst things I've ever smelled. Very unpleasant.

[Darkice]

I dont refreeze. I have other snakes that can eat multiple rats so they get the extras. ( My Redtail boas.)

[Denial]

this is the only time Ive ever had one bust open on me. But she hits her food really hard. Ive seen some people that keep gtp and etb that hit theres really hard to and they kind of bust open.

[Nate]

this is the only time Ive ever had one bust open on me. But she hits her food really hard. Ive seen some people that keep gtp and etb that hit theres really hard to and they kind of bust open.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e5...a/snake186.jpg

That's nuts!