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Just thought I would ask this real quick since this forum seems a little slow.

I have a bunch of frozen mice and rats in my freezer, however the compressor has gone bad and my landlord is taking his sweet time to replace the fridge. I bought some ice and put the mice in a styrofoam cooler(with the ice), and put that in the freezer to see if it would help keep cold. The freezer is not a normal freezer temp but a little colder than the fridge, like 32 degrees. It keeps ice frozen but everything else thaws out.

Question is...the mice are still in the cooler but not frozen solid, more like really cold, but thawed. Should I bother feeding them off to my monitors or should I just say bye to a few hundred bucks and start over? Thoughts?

I wouldnt hesitate to feed them still. unless they are beginning to smell or rot. and even after that im sure a monitor could handle that. keep them cold, then re-freeze. they should still be ok.

The only problem I have found with refrozen mice is the skin on their bellies gets very thin.
Not to big a deal for a Monitor.
On the other hand when my Indigo SLAMS them they tend to explode!
What a mess!!
As storm mentioned already as long as they aint stinkin, I'd do it.
Mike

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Mike's Monitors!

Beautiful indigo man. I saw a friggin giant the other day out in a nature preserve by my house. It had to be 6-7' easily. Awesome animals.

Storm
I used to live in Brevard county, Meritt Island to be exact.
I saw several big ones near the dumpster of a golf course.

It was the hardest thing to not collect any of these Beauties and the Gopher tortises(sp?).

Thanks for the compliment Brother, she is the sweetest snake!
My children LOVE HER!!
Mike

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Mike's Monitors!

Oh wow. Yeah I live in Indian River County. I always have gopher tortoises in my yard, very very cool. I moved here last year from CT and the wildlife still amazes me every day.

Run out to a few stores, check for small chest freezers, something you can take with you wherever you go. That way your animals food does not interfere with yours in the fridge (freezer), or vica-versa. Sometimes you can find them for next to nothing in the paper. People buy them and give away or sell their old ones all of the time.

Good suggestion! I'm sure my wife would be thrilled.

I agree, you can find small new freezers for very cheap, I picked a good size chest freezer for $100 at Home Depot, it had a scratch. Those type stores actually THROW THEM AWAY. As it costs more to send them back.

Also you can find small bar type freezers for cheap too. Actually I got one that is a fridge with a small freezer section, but if I turn up the dial, it freezes everything in there. Good luck

I'm gonna say pretty much the same as everyone else; As long the don't thaw out to room temperature or above, they'll still be good. Keep 'em as cold as you can and "Don't worry. Be happy."

If your landlord's a slacker, call him at 7am every day and ask when he's coming to fix the thing. Then turn around and call him at 7pm every night and ask again. (Then look for another place to live because he ain't gonna be easy to get along with anymore.)

Later!
HH
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Due to political correctness run amuck,
this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:
Appalachian American

I called up one of my friends and threw them in her freezer for the time being. We are moving next week! I guess thats why I don't care if it gets fixed or not.

If she's not a reptile enthusiast, she's one heck of a friend. I can see the look on my friends' faces if I were to aske 'em to keep a few bags of rats for me. Ha! Ha!

Glad to hear you're not gonna lose 'em.

Catch ya later!
HH
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Due to political correctness run amuck,
this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:
Appalachian American

haha. Shes not a reptile enthusiast!! But she had some extra freezer space in the garage and would prefer my animals didn't starve.

However, once her mom found a dead owl and wanted to try to get it stuffed, so she put it in the freezer. I heard she even brought out the owl ice cube out at a Halloween part. Mice are nothing compared to that.

Are you nuts? I'll feed them anything they'll eat. As in, sometimes this guy didn't eat it overnight, and then that guy overnight, and maybe another, and actually I've found rats lying around that maybe I dropped (who knows when?), and throw it in a cage.

I don't think I'm nuts, are you nuts?

Considering the time, money, and eveerything else we put into these magnificient creatures the general public tinks we're ALL nuts. Hahahahaha!!!

(On the lighter side)

Later!
Mike
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Due to political correctness run amuck,
this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:
Appalachian American