![]() The work is partly why I switched to snakes in the first place. It was around $60 for a used cage (full price you're looking $120 for adequate space) plus changing bedding once a week, food daily and change their water. I'm not sure what your ball python eats size wise but the rats I had got to be 500grams a piece. You would have to go to like a country max or store that sells them as feeders and they probably won't be handled much. Plus, most rescues and humane societies will only let you adopt with the stipulation you won't breed them. Rats do smell a little bit especially changing their bedding and if you get a nursing mom she's gunna STANK. Plus, you would have to be very carefully about smelling like rats when you handle your snake. Well, I have had pet rats in the past (yeah even my friends think it's weird I jumped to a snake after them lol) and let me tell you they are very cuddly and it's very easy to get attached. You’d have to breed 2-3x what you need to keep live feeders in rotation, with lots of excess to get rid of. If feeding live, definitely not worth it, however. That would probably last a trio in a big cage a couple months. ![]() Then, pine bedding can be got for about $10 give or take depending on the brand you use and the local prices. A 50 lb bag would last that trio for moooonths, and they’re about $30 if you buy rat specific food. That amount of rats would be plenty to stock your freezer for a single snake. If you kept a 1.2 trio, the cost would be much much lower than buying. Even weaning at 3 weeks like a lot of feeder breeders, that size rat would be right about at weaning age. My rats are weaned at about 5 weeks, and are generally a good 80-100+ grams at that point. A frozen rat is $15 at a pet store by me, $10 if I get it from people that advertise them nearby and raise them in-home.īall pythons shouldn’t be fed bigger than 40-80 gram small rats under the majority of cases, so you wouldn’t need to raise many to adulthood, just breeders. On the other hand, does this actually save money at all? I'd think that buying food for the rats and raising them to adulthood would eventually be more expensive than just buying the frozen rats. She thinks it's awful that I raise insects to feed to my other lizards, just to put into perspective. The second is that my sister has had pet rats before and I think she would just be absolutely horrified more so than she is knowing that I already feed her rats lol. I know I'd likely end up with at least a few favorites, that's just inevitable, but nurturing them all the way to adulthood might be hard for me - I'm not sure, because I've never done it. HOWEVER, how would one go about it? I have a few worries the first is that I just wouldn't be able to freeze them and I'd be sad lol. While they're not expensive persay, I know how easy they are to breed and I know it wouldn't be hard to have an infinite supply. Just got my first ball python that eats whole frozen adult rats. Hopefully this is allowed, I know it's a bit of a morbid subject but I have questions lol.
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