Quote Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy View Post
My medium rats take about 2 hours to thaw inside a ziploc bag immersed in warm water. I have had a few bags with small holes that allowed the water in. In those cases I just put the rats on paper towels and blow dry them before serving them to the snakes.
Same here. My blow dryer has gotten many of my picky snakes to eat.
Quote Originally Posted by bproffer View Post
If you have a vacuum sealer you can vac seal them and heat in water as well. Best of both worlds. Thermal conductivity of water and they stay dry. To take it a step further, you can get an immersion circulator and heat the water to the exact temp you want. So in theory you could heat the water to 98-100°, vac seal your mouse/rat and in 45-60 minutes the whole thing will be heated through to exactly the temp you have the water at.

I have not dine this but I plan to try it when I switch to frozen/thawed. It helps that I already have an immersion circulator.
I would if I had the money for one x.x
Quote Originally Posted by redshepherd View Post
Some snakes don't like water-logged food, so I guess that's where the dry baggie comes in. But if yours don't mind it, then gee lucky! LOL

I'm feeding my Dumeril's Boa medium rats, and takes some 5 hours to thaw even in a bag in hot water... So I just put a frozen rat on the counter in the morning, air-thaw, and when I come back from work 9 hours later, it's thawed.
Yes, but mine didn't seem to mind