Swallowed substrate.

[RamMac]

I usually serve the rodents dry so not much substrate sticks to them but the times when the snakes have ingested substrate it's never had any ill effects. As long as their temps are good and they have fresh water they should pass it just fine.

I do as well, I never thaw in water or with water. I leave my rodents to thaw for hours. The reason I had substrate stick this time was because one rat (that i saw) exploded when constricted (I think because I thawed for 8hrs) and the blood caused the substrate to stick. I'm assuming the same happened with the boa although I didn't see it. Both are feeding on the same sized rat so it makes sense 8hr thaw might be too much for weaned rats to thaw, both had the same substrate issue. The JCP takes rat fuzzies but as I said she refused to eat today. My WLP takes a medium but I imagine since its bigger the 8hr thaw wasn't enough to cause the blood to settle on one side, and if it is it didn't explode since the WLP will not constrict, he just takes the rat once I leave the room.