Hi there!
First, I can solve your freezing into a lump problem.
Put the live minnows in a plastic zip lock bag, and spread them out in the bag inside the freezer.
Set your oven timer for ten minutes.
When the timer goes off, open the freezer and take out the bag. The minnows will be dead and partly frozen, but not frozen solid. Push them around in the bag from the outside until they are seperated, then refreeze them hard.
As for not touching them... you can always use feeding forceps (tweezers) to take them out of the bag and insert them into a jar of warm water for thawing. I have had a number of garters that know I am feeding when I come with the forceps, and several of them over the years got so that they would actually take the minnow right out of the forceps!
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Originally Posted by krystalirelan@southslope.
At the bait shop I can buy a dozen minnows at a time. They ussually give you ALOT more than a dozen though. I give my garters 3 minnows every 3rd day. I tried freezing them to see if my garters would eat them after I thawed them and they did. my problem is, is there a better way to freeze them. I put them on a cookie sheet lined with baking paper so they would not freeze in a big lump and they flopped all over every where. am afraid they will flop into my freezer before they are to cold to stop. plus some of them flopped together and then i had to peel them apart. A snake can pee on me and I'm like "thats mother nature" but I really don't want to touch dead fish if i can help it  |