f/t question

[Nate]

For those who feed f/t, what do you do when your snake refuses its meal? Do you throw it back in the freezer and try again a week later? or thaw it one time and one time only. If he refuses, trash the rat.

a year ago, when i fed live rats, if one of my boys refused his meal, no big deal...i just gave the rat a wack and thawed it out a week later to try again.

How many times should the rat be frozen?

[JLC]

Usually its fine to re-freeze a rodent once...just keep in mind that doing so increases the risk of grossness with the next thaw. But it won't hurt the snake. Now...if I left a frozen rodent with a snake overnight, then I'd go ahead and toss it.

[Nate]

thanks

[xdeus]

Get a BCI. He's my Leftover King.

[smilin-buddha]

That was my use. I had a monitor. I would feed him last and he got all the leftovers.

[frankykeno]

When we fed f/t if the rodent was out and thawed any significant length of time we just chucked it. If we refroze we put it in it's own ziploc freezer bag, expressed out as much air as possible and then marked it as a "refreeze" with the name of the snake it was offered to and the date so it would be used first the next week. It was only offered back to the same snake that had it before (we had snakes in quarantine at the time and didn't want to accidentally screw that up...even frozen I worried about stuff like that). Pinkies don't refreeze nearly as well. One refreezing is it though, if it's not taken the next feeding it gets tossed.