I warm my feeders with room temps-takes forever, but if I am in a rush they go into ziplocks with hot water for about 20-30 mins I flip them every 5 or 10 mins to get them evenly defrosted. You can poke right through the bag with a thumb and middlefinger to the stomach area to make sure its not cold or icy but thawed and ready. The largest mice take the longest, but its faster then room temps, and less messy then soaking them in a tub-I dont like the urine smell that rises from the hot water when they are not bagged, and dripping water everwhere else is never fun.

Seems like every one has the PITA feeder, mine right now went 2 months without taking F/T-he was already slim when I purchased him pretty sure he was WC. Went for live and he had no clue what he was doing. He would miss the hoppers or they would just jump over him or break his crap mouth lock everytime.

Finally, I picked up live fuzzies-slow and easy, and now he is back to hoppers and getting his weight back up. I named him Saints because when he started eating again the team was still undefeated and his top head marking looks like their helmet logo.

A method I have used a few times is throw in a small live feeder to the PITA after they finish that have a f/t item of bigger size for them to grab-most the times they investigate/strike anything that moves after they get one down. It has worked for a couple of WC snakes that were pains for me.

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