My rat breeding colony

I have been breeding these for awhile, and it's near-free snake food. I spend $4 a month for a huge bag of wood shavings, and perhaps $5 a month on a bag of rat feed blocks. It'd cost me more to buy rats at the pet store for one week!
First tank holds a pregnant female. Second has the weanlings from the rat in the third tank's last litter; the male's in her tank now. ;) I clean them weekly and it takes 5 minutes. Water-filled fabric softener bottles and a rubbermaid housing my tiger salamander hold the screen lid closed!
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Nice setup you've got there. I dont think i'd ever breed rats, but seeing everyone's setup ..... ??? :)

It's pretty simple. As long as ya keep the cages clean every week, they never get so dirty as to be disgusting. I throw in some food in the morning, fill water bottles every other day, and that's all really.