how much and where?

i was just wondering what people are paying for their rats/mice?, their size?, and where do you get them?

i had stopped by a pet store on the way back from a dr's appontment today and can't believe what they are charging for rodents, $1 for pinks/fuzzy mice $1.25 for hopper mice, $1.50 for adult mice, $2.49 small rats, $2.99 med rats, and $3.99 for large rats :eek:

Those prices sound pretty reasonable for a pet store. I think I pay $2.75 for small rats at a local "mom & pop" store. Buying them one-at-a-time from any retail shop will definitely hit ya in the wallet when your collection grows beyond just a couple snakes.

You can get taken at the local store for much crazier sums:

jumbos 8.99
lg rats 5.99
med 4.99
sml 3.99


I am glad we breed our own now - and pretty much give away our overflow.

man the place i was getting them from was alot cheaper, from $0.49 for pinks to $3.29 for jumbo rats. but that is now 4+ hours away from me now.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

You can get taken at the local store for much crazier sums:

jumbos 8.99
lg rats 5.99
med 4.99
sml 3.99


I am glad we breed our own now - and pretty much give away our overflow.

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no way i would sell out if i had to pay those, man

i am not for the breeding of rats, allergies to them. but at these prices i may just start.

I order online and got my XXL for $1.50 each!!!

The cheapest I find at a pet store are $1.00 for all mouse sizes and $2.00 for all rat sizes, but this store is uneducated in reptiles. Try frozen from rodentpro.com or americanrodent.com ;)

Petco rapes us on ours.

Its $1.99 for mice
$6.99 for a medium rat
and $5.99 for a small rat.
And you do the math, I go in each week and buy 3 medium rats, 1 small rat and 3 mice. I'm spending 30 some odd bucks each week...yes I am going to breed my own and freeze them very soon. That doesnt even count for the cost of housing them being that I cant get everyone to eat each week so I end up putting up with rats and mice every time, right now I have 2 medium rats and a mouse shacking up in here....I'm going to charge them rent!

What gets me is it's $7.99 for 3 small forzen rats. WTF? I know with cost for feeding and everything adds up, but what about killing the rats, freezing and packaging them and then running the cooler to keep them frozen? Why would frozen be that much cheaper.

Shipping is what kills you when you order frozen. I ended up paying $60 some on shipping for 50-60 lbs of rats and mice!! Thats not cheap at all.

Breed your own!! Counting all of our overhead, it costs us about $0.15/adult mouse and $0.35/weanling rat (the two sizes fed to most of our snakes). It's probably not as cost effective if you are only raising rodents for a few snakes, but it's cheaper than most pet stores, and I feel it adds another dimension to keeping snakes in general.

-Evan