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08-24-03, 12:14 PM
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Location: Miami, FL and New Haven, CT
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wet or dry feeders?
Do you guys feed your snakes food that is wet, or dry? What works best, I.Y.O?
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08-24-03, 12:47 PM
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Location: kitchener, ontario
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mine are usually wet from dethawing...altho sometimes snakes dont like it.
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08-24-03, 12:58 PM
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Join Date: Aug-2003
Location: Montreal, Canada
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I do both. They are all initially unthawed in hot water. Some if them I have to dry with a cloth or else some snakes won't eat it if it's wet. And other snakes go wild when the food is wet...
I find it less messy to dry them before.
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08-24-03, 01:02 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Midwest, USA
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I thaw them in warm/hot water and then dry them with a paper towel as best i can. I've never had a refusal from wet food, just picky snakes.
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08-24-03, 01:18 PM
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Location: Kansas
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Mine are thawed in hot water...but are put in plastic bag so it's not really wet....
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08-24-03, 01:25 PM
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I thaw mine in warm water, so I generally end up feeding wet. I've never had a problem getting any of my snakes to accept them.
Ham
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08-24-03, 01:47 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Trenton
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Most of mine are wet.
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08-24-03, 03:59 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2003
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canuckland
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Always dry. We defrost the prey in a ziploc bag immersed in hot water. The only time it had been a little wet was when there was a hole in the bag. 
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08-24-03, 04:03 PM
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Join Date: Nov-2002
Location: Chicago
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I feed all of mine wet prey. Like all the others I defrost in hot tap water(not boiled). I used to feed dry, by thawing under the heat lamp, but found my snakes would take a while to poop, and sometimes would need to be soaked for them to poop, specially my burm. I started feeding them wet prey, when it really started taking too long to defrost jumbo rats under a lamp. I fed them wet, and by coincidense my snakes started pooping on a fairly normal schedule, usually in a week. Plus I havent had to soak a snake to poop, in over 2 years.
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08-24-03, 07:27 PM
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Join Date: Apr-2003
Location: Ontario
Age: 50
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I thaw small rats in a zip lock bag with hot water. large rats are simply left out over night and fed @ room temp.
Never had a problem
Jason
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08-24-03, 08:58 PM
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I just toss 'em all in a big bucket of hot tap water (sans bag) so they are soaking wet. I quickly wring them out a bit by hand so they don't totally soak the cage, but they are still dripping wet. I prefer to feed wet prey, as it gets more moisture in to them, since snakes get a lot of their water from their food, and also since moisture is lost by freezing prey.
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08-24-03, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb-2003
Location: T.O.
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I feed mine dry....Toss 'em under a heat lamp and flip them over every 15 mins or so untill there warm.
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