expenses

I currently own 5 ball pythons a BCI and I plan on adding 2 more BPs to my collection.

Usualy I spend about $15 at the local pet store on mice and rats every weekend.
I wanted to see how much people here spend on feeders and how many snakes they have.

I just have the one snake and feed once a week so it costs me less than 3 dollars a week for the one small rat

I usually spend between $25-$35 a week on feeders for 6 Storr's monitors, 1 Veiled Chameleon, 2 Childrens Pythons, and 2 Ball pythons.

70 for 4-5 weeks for 16 or so snakes

depends where you get them from. is there some one around you that breeds rats and mice? if so i would get a bulk order maybe 2 weeks worth or find someone else in the area that has snakes and put in an order that is worth the breeders time to get the order together and meet you...they sell at a greatly reduced price from what petstores do because you get it straight from the source

Well I breed my rats and buy mice. So a month
Food for rats 20lbs rat block 20.00
4 Mice $24.00
Bedding for 17 snakes and 50 rats. 40.00
Having healthy happy herps..Priceless

I have 3 snakes right know, in a week or 2, about 6 more, and this past shippment of rodents, I spent 93 dollars shipped, lots of mice, and some rats. Thats a steal!!:rockon:

I buy 120-150 mice every 3-4 weeks, and also have a 1.10(could me more, LoL) group for producing hoppers for hatchlings. I spent $68 last time on 120 mice(live) and it lasted 3.5-4 weeks for my 25+ snakes. I buy rabbits every so often, and they are between $5-10 apiece for 2.5lbers for the boa.

Bedding for the rodents is free(the school where I keep all of the rodents has a deal through the feed store), rodent block is $22 for 50lbs.

About $1000 a week...not sure how many snakes though :crazy:

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Originally Posted by cueball

About $1000 a week...not sure how many snakes though :crazy:

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You ARE a herper if you pay more for snake food for a week than you do yourself, and you don't know how many snakes your feeding!!:P