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i just converted my 14 month old boa over to little frozen rats but they take all freaken day to dethaw unaided. is there a faster way to dethaw them other than just leaving them out??
or am i stuck with the all day dethaw?

thanks Dave

I put them in water, and it usually takes 1-2 hours for them to totally thaw out.
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Greg

I put them in a rubbermaid container and float them in my hot tub, takes about 2 hours. I have also used a 11" wide X 12" long piece of flexwatt heat tape and set the container containing the rats on top of it.
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the stove and the microwave! OK, ok, let's not go there...lol

The hot water thing sounds great. of course, not the rat itself but maybe in a ziplock or a tub, as mentioned.

I used to live in an apartment and the heating room was just below me. The floors were 95 degrees and I would set down newspaper and leave them there for about 30 min.

I now live in an apartment with a boiler room. I can set them in there anywhere for a few hours, or can put them on top of the hot water heater and they are good in about an hour.

I have set them in there in the summer with a heating fan pointed towards them for about an hour.

The easiest way (less work to do - FOR ME) is this:

I plan the night before who's eating what. Let's say i'm feeding the big guys that eat large rats, nothing bigger or smaller.

I'll take from the freezer, let's say, 3 -10 packs of large rats and put them in the refridgerator at night.
In the morning before going to work, I set them out anywhere on newspaper.
I get home 8-9 hours later and they are all perfect - just about like fresh killed !

Hope this helped! - Joe
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'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin
Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo