I know its a big time and decent amount of money investment, but breeding rats is the best thing I ever did for my snake. He hates frozen/prekill. I have only managed to get him to eat a prekill once and he was definitely not into it. Now he eats in frenzy, very excited anytime I offer. The quality of my rats are also superior to anything I could find locally, as most of the pet store feeder mice/rats are so malnourished. Plus, you get a bunch of cute fuzzy little rats to play with for a while :) I spent nearly $250 on my rat setup. 2 cages, water, food (now switched over to quality dog food, they love it and it makes their fur so soft!), a wheel, a ball they can run around the yard in, and a couple of huts. I have also got some really cool rat morphs from my basic pair of parent Asian rats. I'm not an expert by any means, but something about a fuzzy rat full of moms milk makes me think my snake is healthier and happier :rolleyes: Too top it off the rats are pretty smart and smell so much better then mice do. Just make sure to feed some pinkies off! I waited too long for them to grow and my single snake can't keep up. Luckily I have another baby coming who can help with the pinky part. My first litter of pups was 17 with 2 duds.