expenses

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Originally Posted by stangs13

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

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Or work for VPI :D

Cheater. :D:D:D

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Or work for VPI :D

Cheater. :D:D:D

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LOL!!


Bam!

I pay $9 per 25 rodents, frozen. I plan on breeding my own next year so that should diminish even that cost.

Well, I have around 100 snakes, and my feeder bill is around $250 a month, give or take.

I go thru a wholesaler, so it is not petstore prices.. Problem with going thru a wholesaler when you only have a couple of animals is that you have to buy $50 or more each time you meet up (usually).

It depends on where you find your feeders, if you breed them, and so forth. It's all in finding the best product for the best price.

Research your area, I'm sure there are wholesalers or even hobbiest breeders that may just let you have rats.

That's what I did. Good luck! :D

This is a great and interesting topic!

I've been tossing around costs in my head for situation and it seems pretty minimal. Granted I only have like 7 ball pythons! The only things I have purchase regularly would be Mazuri rodent food, aspen (unless I use just paper), deli cups, and of course electricity.

I get compressed bags of aspen for like $7-$8 and will last me about a month. I can't remember how much the big back of Mazuri is but I'll say $25, this lasts a couple months...maybe more. Deli cups for water every few+ months only a few bucks. Electricity...not really sure flexwatt heated rack and oil heater used in the winter.

I go through 4 bags of Mazuri rodent each month ($52) and 2 bags of Pine ($14). I also use about 50 frozen mice per month and 4 jumbo rats ($35).

what is the best place to buy frozen mice?

Three bp's. Two young ones still on mice and each one eats two mice per week and then my older bp eats one small rat per week. ( but only for about 8 mos out of each yr )

4 x 1.99 = 7.96
1 x 4.99 = 4.99
plus tax come to 13.60 per week.

I feed live and the only place I have to purchase feeders is Petco :(
And never can I see myself raising mice or rats because their smell turns my stomach, it's all I can do to open their boxes when it's feeding time and drop them in the tubs. But I have also learned to never say never :)

That cost will soon go up as I plan on adding another bp, a female 100% het for albino. So I am figuring soon over 20 bucks per week