How do you thaw your prey items? - Page 2

Jendee · 01-09-13, 10:53 PM

eww at the hair dryer..idk but that idea grosses me out lol

**lady_bug87** · 01-09-13, 10:54 PM

The heat pad grosses me out...

**Aaron_S** · 01-09-13, 10:55 PM

I know right?

I dislike the smell of rat,especially rotting rat and I think blowing hot air over them somehow wouldn't help with it.

**lady_bug87** · 01-09-13, 10:58 PM

So gross...

I wonder if the heat pad smells like cooking rat

infernalis · 01-09-13, 10:59 PM

I usually just set the plate in my reptile room for a few hours and feed when I get around to it.

iBaman · 01-10-13, 12:56 AM

i stick it in a plastic bag, fill the kitchen sink with hot tap water, let it sit until the water is warmish, fill it back up with hot, again, let it sit until warm ish, then once more so the guinea pig is nice and hot. then i bleach my sink xD

Gungirl · 01-10-13, 05:22 AM

Normally I just toss the frozen ones into a tub with a lid in the morning and feed at night. I only have to heat one prey Item up. The rest eat at room temp and I am working on getting my last one to do the same.

Lankyrob · 01-10-13, 05:53 AM

I take them out of the freezer when i go to bed, lay them all in a bowl in one of the kitchen cupboards (so the cats cant get them

) then sometime in the following day i take the bowl and put it on a hot radiator.

As i feed each snake i take the prey item and press the skull against the radiator to make sure there is a nice hot target and then feed in the enclosure on the reptibark

StudentoReptile · 01-10-13, 06:13 AM

I just put them in a ziplock and leave them out to thaw for a few hrs. I used to do the warm water method, but it got messy; rodents always busted when struck by the snake. Never could get the right temps for the water.

CK SandBoas · 01-10-13, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Aaron_S

Not as much variance as the other site lol

Just to quickly mention a couple.

A good handful of people over there also thaw at room temp overnight but will warm up with a hair dryer.

Someone uses a human heat pad to warm them up.

I've done the hair dryer bit before, i've never smelled anything from the particular prey item when i've done it, though i admit, i do tend to be able to block out a lot of unpleasant smells to get the job done.

shaunyboy · 01-10-13, 07:49 AM

i defrost overnight at room temperature...

then heat the prey with a hair dryer

cheers shaun

MoreliAddict · 01-10-13, 08:18 AM

Hot water. As hot as my tap goes. 30-35 minutes time. (for small/medium rats)

Serve em up soaking wet.

KORBIN5895 · 01-10-13, 09:04 AM

I thaw on top of my enclosure stack then toss them in hot water.

I'm so waiting for some college guy to admit they defrost them by anal insertion...... wait, maybe that's hamsters ......

Terranaut · 01-10-13, 09:13 AM

Same way as Aaron.

SpOoKy · 01-10-13, 09:47 AM

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I take them out of the freezer when i go to bed, lay them all in a bowl in one of the kitchen cupboards (so the cats cant get them )

This made me laugh, Once I had forgotten I had taken out rats and had them in the kitchen. Came downstairs in the morning to the guts of a large, 4 medium, 4 pups and 6 pinkies spread across the kitchen floor, and 3 very happy cats