When I was in high school there was a teacher with 2 ball pythons crammed together in a 40 gallon tank, maybe smaller. The snakes coiled up took up the entire floor of the tank and they had to be on top of each other to fit. She was a science teacher an loved animals apparently. Anyways so she fed her pythons a live medium/large rat maybe once every 2 weeks. But the weird part was she would tranquilize the rats. The rats were alive and able to move a little bit. Think waking up a lazy teenage early in the morning sluggish. Is that healthy for the snake? Does anyone else do this? This isn't me being against feeding live or anything but tranquilized rats...?
