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Thawing red pinks???

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reptile_addict

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I have problems thawing out red pinks which are real baby pinks. They seem to melt and fall apart in warm water. I may try just leavubg them out til they thaw out.
 
u can get a zip lock bag and put the pink in it and the put it in warm not hot water. :cheers:
 
I'm not so sure about that

They seem to do worse in a baggie.
They seem to cook (steam) in a baggie. They end up worse then if you just put them in warm water.
To the original poster, Are you heating the water?
You should just use hot tap water, drop the pinkie in and let it thaw. I have never seen them burst or fall apart this way.
 
EEEEWWWW. Melting pinkies? That's disgusting. :puke01:

When I 1st got Monty I was feeding him those teeny little red pinks and not one of them melted or fell apart. I put them in a baggie and let them sit for about 5 - 10 minutes in a cup of hot tap water - and voila! dinner is served. No melting, heck even the tiny feet and tails stayed intact.

Perhaps you are actually cooking them in the water, to a tenderness that the meat just falls apart? :shrugs:
 
Ohhhhhhh.....THOSE red pinks!

For a moment I though you had communist mice. :rolleyes:

Are you sure you didn't by the fast dissolving pinks by accident?
 
Unless you got a bad batch that had been frozen and thawed MULTIPLE times...I cannot imagine that they would fall apart unless you are BOILING them on the stove...

I use EXTREMELY hot tap water...and never have had a mouse fall apart yet regardless of size...

Of course I thaw a bunch of mice of various sizes all together...so the water cools rather quickly...but even thawing just ONE red pink this has never happened to me...
 
Alias47 said:
Unless you got a bad batch that had been frozen and thawed MULTIPLE times...I cannot imagine that they would fall apart unless you are BOILING them on the stove...

I use EXTREMELY hot tap water...and never have had a mouse fall apart yet regardless of size...

Of course I thaw a bunch of mice of various sizes all together...so the water cools rather quickly...but even thawing just ONE red pink this has never happened to me...
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I am also like Derek. I also use extremely hot water to thaw out my pinkys. I have never had a problem before.
 
O_O Disgusting.

My red pinks....they don't burst or anything...Sometimes the legs or something just fall off. x_X It's so gross.
 
sometimes if you use very hot water with day old pinks they do seem to get partially cooked~ is pretty nasty.

I set them out (In a baggie) for an hour or so~ then I set them on the dryer while I dry a load of laundry. Seems to bring them to just about perfect temp without any cooking!
 
I don't mean that they burst but the skin in an area will just rip and the insides come out. I use a deli cup now and set it in the bath tub in hot water. It seems to work ok exept it takes a long time. I have been thawing about 6 to 8 pinks/fuzzies for the pacman and tegu alone. I can't wait til I get the leos on pinks. The house snakes is still on the red pinks. I can't wait till I get rid of all those nasty red pinks.
 
I just bought a frozen Fuzzy like 10 min ago; I am going to wait till later tonight to feed to replicate their natural feeding time. But I have never had a frozen mouse "explode" but I bought a frozen one today because I am looking into buying bulk of frozen mice and want to make sure she will not reject them, or else I am stuck with 100 mice....

Does anyone know how to get a snake to eat a frozen mouse if he rejects it? I asked for some mouse bedding, but that is all I can think of... :shrugs:
 
Mangrove, You can usually sway the mouse a few inches in front of them and they should strike. If they don't right away try in a day or so. or you could brain it a little to make more of a scent.
 
Make sure the temp of the mouse is right too... The one and only time my snake ever rejected a mouse was when it was too cold. He ate the first hopper and I had the second one sitting on my desk. By the time he was done with the first one, the other one was cold and he wanted nothing to do with it. I didn't even realize why until the next time I fed him and he ate both!
 
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