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So is there some sort of mouse thawing procedure?

Not much to add here but I get a regular sized coffee cup, fill it with hot tap water, put the pinky in a small ziploc, then put it in the water. I give it at least 8-10 minutes as it's unlikely that the 115-120F water will cook it but I want to be certain not to leave any ice in the pinky as it can cause a regurge AFAIK. I then stick the warm pinky in the feeding container and sure as rain, Selene has it down in about 2-3 minutes (which she is now ready for pinkies x2 as she weighs about 16G) So I'm going to move her up a feeding stage next time...
 
I guess I am doing an ok job (worrying for nothing LOL). Tonight I had her in her feeding bin and I put in the mouse, then I put her lid on. I turned around to get a dish towel to cover her up so she wouldn't be nervous, but I guess she wasn't nervous because by the time I got the dish towel she was already eating her pink. Now she is resting comfortably in her tank again.
 
Yeah, luckily, Corns aren't nearly as finicky of an eater as say a BP for instance. I just put mine in a wide open sterilite (shoe box size) and within 1-5 minutes she is going nom nom nom if you know what I mean.

The biggest thing you could do is to squeeze the pinky to make sure there aren't any frozen parts.
 
This is what I do:

Run hot water. Put a small bowl under the faucet. Put a frozen pink in the bowl, water off.

Get out the snake's feeding container, get out the scale.

Check the pink- should be completely thawed. Run it under very hot water for a few seconds, slit the back four times, place it in the container, go get the snake.

If I'm feeding multiple snakes, I set out the feeding bins. Make a list. Start thawing in one or two ceramic bowls with running hot water, from largest prey to smallest. Start feeding the snakes from smallest to largest! With the smallest snakes, by the time I put the snake in the feeding container, go get the next snake, wash and replace the water bowl, the first snake is ready to go back.
 
My tap water gets hot enough to thaw pinkie in like, 30 seconds. D: I've burned myself soooo many time.

When I feed larger mice, though, I have to dump out the water after a few minutes because the mice cool it down too much. Then I just add new hot water.
 
Procedure for me:
  • Count snakes per size mouse.
  • Find cooler that winds up somewhere other than where I put it after last feeding.
  • Count out pinks and fuzzies into said cooler of questionable location.
  • Go to bathroom and turn on tub water as hot as it will go.
  • Fill cooler with hot bathtub water until all mice/rats are covered completely by water.
  • Close lid.
  • Wait 30 mins for pinks, fuzzies, and hoppers. Wait 1 hour for adult mice and rats.
That's what works for me! Although you don't need a giant cooler yet. Lol. But I have found that if you cover the container, you have to refill much less often, or not at all.
 
Robbie I do not have the space in my house to EVER need a giant cooler LOL. I am not lucky enough to have a snake room, the room in my house that would have been called a snake room, is called the kids bedroom and the other possibility is called the playroom, sometimes having kids means making difficult choices ;) LOL. I have to just settle for a snake bookcase, and even then the snake has to share its bookcase with books LOL.
 
Dinah said:
Robbie I do not have the space in my house to EVER need a giant cooler LOL. I am not lucky enough to have a snake room, the room in my house that would have been called a snake room, is called the kids bedroom and the other possibility is called the playroom, sometimes having kids means making difficult choices ;) LOL. I have to just settle for a snake bookcase, and even then the snake has to share its bookcase with books LOL.
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But you might need a mini-cooler one day. ;) Like those ones they sell at Circle K! I'm so going to get you in trouble. :laugh:
 
RobbiesCornField said:
But you might need a mini-cooler one day. ;) Like those ones they sell at Circle K! I'm so going to get you in trouble. :laugh:
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Maybe one day....of course I would have to start parting with major pieces of furniture or possible appliances first...but you know who needs a washing machine.
 
Asbit said:
Me, I put said mouse in a ziploc, then I run the hot water until it is as hot as it will get. I fill a soup/cereal bowl with hot water and place bag o mouse in it.
Then I get a second bowl and place it on top of the floating bag o mouse and fill that bowl with hot water.
Wait a few min, drain water, slightly squish mouse(while still in bag) to make sure it is completely thawed and very warm through out.
If it is not completely thawed and very warm through out then repeat.
Once mouse is done, slit skin on back and give to snake, yum yum!
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I use this method, except I don't use a second bowl to weigh the mouse down. I use the forceps (hemostats) to weigh it down instead.
 
I not have an thawing questions but wonder why some slit the back on pinks (onlh I assume?) The only time I would do something similar is for a difficult feeder. Thoughts?
 
Dinah said:
Maybe one day....of course I would have to start parting with major pieces of furniture or possible appliances first...but you know who needs a washing machine.
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What about a couch? I still haven't found a purpose for that. :grin01:

snowman86 said:
I not have an thawing questions but wonder why some slit the back on pinks (onlh I assume?) The only time I would do something similar is for a difficult feeder. Thoughts?
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There was some research done a while back that proved that slitting pinks helps babies grow faster.
 
slitting helps with digestion. It gives more area for the stomach flora to cover. Though I haven't seen any hard data, I have read on this forum that snakes who are fed a diet of pinks that have been slitted are shown to grow faster than snakes that are fed whole pinks. I could only imagine that it has to do with the amount of energy expelled during digestion. I'm guess that slitted pinks are easier to digest.

Wayne
 
RobbiesCornField said:
What about a couch? I still haven't found a purpose for that. :grin01:

There was some research done a while back that proved that slitting pinks helps babies grow faster.
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I don't know we kind of need the couch for watching movies.

However, I am trying to talk my husband into making a new bed for us that instead of a headboard has shelves for at least 2 tanks to go on, but I am not sure if having us sleep next to them would freak out the snakes.

As for slitting the backs I had read it makes them grow faster, and that it makes it easier for them to digest, but the reason I do it is because Kathy recommended it when I got my snake from her and I have no reason not to follow her advice so I cut the back, actually if I am being honest I make my husband cut the backs LOL.
 
Dinah

My biggest corn sleeps in my bedroom less than one foot from my bed, and it is fine with it.
As well one of our corns, now a yearling who we got as a 12 gram little on has slept in my youngest son's room since day one and let me tell you a 10/11 yr olds room is far from calm or quiet, and it is doing great.
 
Asbit said:
Dinah

My biggest corn sleeps in my bedroom less than one foot from my bed, and it is fine with it.
As well one of our corns, now a yearling who we got as a 12 gram little on has slept in my youngest son's room since day one and let me tell you a 10/11 yr olds room is far from calm or quiet, and it is doing great.
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We were thinking he could build a custom headboard and since we have a king bed it is wide enough that we could build in a shelf for 2 20L tanks or similar (FIL owns a saw mill/woodworking business so if I decide on what I want it is no problem for my husband to build it). Anyways then it would be 'his' and 'hers' snakes LOL because he has mentioned wanting a snake but I have already said I also want one.

Nanci said:
Slitting study:

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61584&highlight=slit+pinks
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Thanks Nanci!
 
RobbiesCornField said:
Procedure for me:
  • Count snakes per size mouse.
  • Find cooler that winds up somewhere other than where I put it after last feeding.
  • Count out pinks and fuzzies into said cooler of questionable location.
  • Go to bathroom and turn on tub water as hot as it will go.
  • Fill cooler with hot bathtub water until all mice/rats are covered completely by water.
  • Close lid.
  • Wait 30 mins for pinks, fuzzies, and hoppers. Wait 1 hour for adult mice and rats.
That's what works for me! Although you don't need a giant cooler yet. Lol. But I have found that if you cover the container, you have to refill much less often, or not at all.
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Sounds like my thawing procedure, except I use a bucket and do it in 2-3 'rounds' (so I don't mix up sizes....example: I'll thaw small pinks, peach fuzzies, hoppers, and adults at the same time, then next round do large pinks, fuzzies, weanlings, and extra large adults, and then do the rats during the third round). I've also found that, other than the big rats, everything thaws in about 10 minutes this way, with one refill of hot water to complete the thawing process and then one refill for extra toasty mooses. :)

Dinah said:
Anyways then it would be 'his' and 'hers' snakes
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Oooh! I like that idea!
 
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