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What is the best method to store feeders?

Fozzy8810

Fozzy8810

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I kinda want to change my method of storing frozen mice. Yesterday I went to a reptile show in Harve de Grace ( had fun), and I stocked up on some hoppers, small adult, pinkies and small pinkies for my friend and I before school starts. Each of the four packs of mice I bought were stored in regular ziplock sandwhich bags. The hoppers and small mice looked packed in, while the 2 bags of pinkies had some wiggle room( these were in the small/snack sized ziplock bags). Today I double bagged the ziplock bags with a freezer bag just until I find a better way. 1) I want to store them in a differently from my previous method below, what is the best way to do so?

August was the first time I bought mice from this breeder. I took out each mouse, and spaced them out on a cling wrap bag. Then I took another sheet of cling wrap to seal them in place, after this I put the sheet of mice in a freezer bag that I later put into grocery bag that went staight to the freezer. Now the remainding mice seem really hard and kinda icy, but they don't have spots. 2) Should I toss them or are they still good to feed? How long are frozen mice good for ?
 
At the beginning I just doubled up on Ziploc Freezer bags and my mice were still fine 3 months later. I've now switched to a cheap, but good, hand-held vacuum sealer. You have to buy special bags and the actual contraption, but it works well and reduces the need for a bunch of layers.
 
Oxygen is the culprit you are trying to avoid. Using 10 zip locks won’t help if the first one is full of oxygen. The more air you squeeze out the better. That is the value of the vacuum sealers. In either case, if sharp toe nails poke holes in the bag, neither is of any value.

Freezer burn makes the food less nutritious, but not toxic. I would not throw out mice just because they had a little freezer burn on them. If your packages are sealed well your mice should last all of 6 months to a year. The older they are the less nutritional value they will have but it is a small amount and not something to panic over.

Pinkie mice seem to freezer burn easier but in fact they don’t really. They just have no hair so that you can see the spots on their skin easier than you can on older mice.
 
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