tired of petco and there prices

so i buy most of my frozen feeders from pet co but they're way too over priced.
i have been looking at sites that sell them in bulk but i dont know many i was wondering if you guys could recommend some thanks.

I've used rodentpro.com. I was fully satisfied. The per item prices are great when you buy in bulk, but shipping is gonna cost you ~$60 because it has to be specially packaged with dry ice.

I use micedirect.com. similar to rodent pro and shipping will cost you a bit because of the dry ice used to keep the product cold during transport.

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Loxahatchee rodents is great. High quality packaging and some of the best prices on shipping around. There are tons of positive reviews on here for them.

http://loxahatcheerodents.com/estore/

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The only jelp I can give you is either breed your own like I do or try and find a small mom and pop pet shop in your area.

They kill you with shipping. Your better off going to petco still , unless like above^ you breed your own. Or you buy hundreds of dollars of rats to make it worth it.

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Loxahatchee rodents is great. High quality packaging and some of the best prices on shipping around. There are tons of positive reviews on here for them.

http://loxahatcheerodents.com/estore/

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This! I just received my order a few days ago and everything was fantastic!


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Do you have any expos near you? I try to get my feeders at expos now. That's usually where I get the best prices. That, or one of the local reptile shops. If you don't have any of that around and you don't want to/can't breed your own, maybe try finding out if anyone local breeds their own feeders? I'm sure someone might be willing to sell off extras.

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They kill you with shipping. Your better off going to petco still , unless like above^ you breed your own. Or you buy hundreds of dollars of rats to make it worth it.

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Not really if you buy in bulk. I buy 6 months worth and with shipping rodentpro costs me $300. I added petsmart prices for the same amount and it was over $600

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The only jelp I can give you is either breed your own like I do or try and find a small mom and pop pet shop in your area.

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Same. I work at a little store like this, and we are actually the only place in the county that has live feeders. Pet smart and stores like that make you buy a pack of 3 or 4 feeders :confusd: that's crazy, and it's like 12 bucks!!

thanks everyone
i wish i could breed my own i just dont have the place to do it or i would have started a while ago.
im ordering quite a bit and its with my girlfriend and my brother so were spiting the shipping so it wont be too bad so i guess ill keep shopping around thanks for the help

oh another question
is there any companies i should stay away from????

I have used rodentpro and micedirect, gotten from expos, and breed my own. I used to live down from a reptile shop that sold cheap feeders too (some hole-in-the-wall small pet shops have good prices and I have twice been lucky enough to live by them through two major moves). I find that I need a mix of all of these to stay on top of rats.

For the sake of ease with live, my top recommendation is to find a shop with good prices, or haggle with one to give better price on promise of constant return customer. This will save effort and not cost too much more versus breeding yourself (if the price is good of course). If you don't have that, breed to save money on live.

For frozen, best to save shipping is an expo, but next to that is to buy in bulk. Mice direct, for example, has a price break if you buy so many. If you can hit that number, can make the shipping side of it more worth it.

I live about 40 minutes from Micedirect, so I lucked out there and can save money driving to get orders.... you may not be close to a larger breeder, BUT you may live close to a small scale breeder and not know it. Post on snkae forums and youmay find someone close, but I have found craigslist to get better responses. I never knew how many people breed rats and have extra to sell. One disadvantage to this is you don't always know the quality of the rats from small breeders, and I have heard of bad stories, but personally I have yet to have had a bad experience with smaller breeders.

If you can't find anyone and have no expos, you may want to do a cost analysis and see if the shipping negates savings as it may, in which case petco may be you best option... but try craigslist and see if a breeder is in your area, or if anyone in your area knows a good shop.

I got sick of petco too! Ha I live northern mn they are only place with feeders. They never have the right size and all the normal complaints. I decided to start breeding an I sell off surplus, I was selling them local but have been playing with idea of shipping my frozen off because sometimes I have 60 sitting in my freezer and I feel live! Haha

I use laynelabs and I like the quality much more than rodent pro

I plan on ordering layne labs next month, my local reptile store is just too expensive.

http://www.laynelabs.com/frozen-rats



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https://loxahatcheerodents.com/
Excellent prices, amazing quality

www.bigcheeserodents.com/
Excellent prices, amazing quality

http://www.laynelabs.com/
Amazing quality, ability to buy smaller quantity of specific sizes, shipping is on the high side though.

Just a random thought, but do people local to each other ever do 'group orders' to split the shipping costs? I used to participate in group orders (or "circles") for other sorts of things and was just wondering if it's a 'thing' for feeder orders. Might not be a terrible idea if you don't need 100+ feeders just for yourself.

I'm literally done with petco in general. So expensive. :mad: