Just interested in opinions and methods regarding heating up frozen rodents for feeding. I've heard pros and cons for different methods and am wanting to know what others with more experience are doing.
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why even bother drying them, i leave them wet helps with hydrationi just get a tub and put all the rodents/rabbits/mice in, under hot water, not boiling water. Leave em and flip them over onced one side is thawed, this takes less than 10 minutes. I have tried putting them in a bag etc etc to stop them getting wet but it takes too long and i just dry them afterwards.
It depends on what substrate you use, if you have paper it's no problem. If you have any sort of mulch, pellets, critters crumble etc it can become stick to the food item and be ingested (small quantities are generally of no harm however if the food becomes covered with a large amount if substrate it can cause issues).why even bother drying them, i leave them wet helps with hydration
I just let them thaw naturally to room temperature, never heat them at all.
Not since I moved home from Asia have I indulged in the rat BBQ.A few on a skewer and a few minutes on the BBQ does the trick.
It depends on what substrate you use, if you have paper it's no problem. If you have any sort of mulch, pellets, critters crumble etc it can become stick to the food item and be ingested (small quantities are generally of no harm however if the food becomes covered with a large amount if substrate it can cause issues).
Why when its not necessary?Why don't you feed them out of their enclosure
Removing an animal to feed it outside of it enclosure is unnecessary, feeding them in the enclosure is ok as long as the food item doesn't pick up the substrate due to it being wet.Why don't you feed them out of their enclosure
Never ! Pythons are natural scavengers anyway, so i doubt a dead rodent lying on the ground in the bush would be 38 degrees.You don't heat the rodent before serving? I was under the impression that rats/mice ran at about 38c, not room temp. You've never had any adverse effects from not having the right temp food?
Not saying I'm right or wrong but in 16 years of keeping and breeding i have never heated rodents and never had a problem.I have never heard the words python and scavenger together before lougelizard. Kind of makes their heat sensor pits useless if they're looking for things at ambient temperature... I think I will stick to my heating thanks.
As long as it works with no issue for the reptiles, I guess it doesn't matter.Not saying I'm right or wrong but in 16 years of keeping and breeding i have never heated rodents and never had a problem.
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