Rat pricing? Help

The pet store that I go to charges me $11 for just 1 small and 1 medium rat. I feel like this price is pretty high for what I'm getting. How much do you guys pay for rats?

I dont pay for my rats anymore, unless its for food and bedding lol. I breed my own rats. But when i used to get them at petco, they charged about $6-7 at first for a medium rat, then almost ten, now they dont sell them anymore but they still sell adult mice for about $4 i think. Hope this helps

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Might be worth looking into expos near you and buying in bulk if you can.

Order online....even with shipping mine don't come close to that

I get mine for $4 for small rats and $2 for crawlers

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Originally Posted by PastelMaker

The pet store that I go to charges me $11 for just 1 small and 1 medium rat. I feel like this price is pretty high for what I'm getting. How much do you guys pay for rats?

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All my snakes are on f/t, except 1 that at the moment only takes live. I believe i pay around $10 for a small rat but not for long as i am trying to get her onto p/k and then f/t. I know alot of places that sell rats for way cheaper than $10, i just came across a place that sells mediums for $2 but unfortunetly they are way too far from me. My advice is to do more research on where you can find them cheaper cause paying $11 for 1 rat every week is way too much, thats why very soon i will hopefully no longer being doing the same.

Are you feeding live or frozen?

Around here you would be about $4 for a small and medium.
I breed and sell my own.

I feed live but for my 3 the lives are
1.50 for a rat pup
3.00 for a small
5.00 for a medium
6.50 for a large (I'll feed my girl a large about every 2 months or so and take her off for 2 weeks)


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$1.50 for pups and $2.00 for smalls.

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Originally Posted by Slim

$1.50 for pups and $2.00 for smalls.

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Yeesh. Wish I had access to where you people buy rodents - I pay $5 each for small mice, let alone rats, when I have to buy them.

My reptile shop sells smalls for $3.50, mediums for $5 and larges for $7 and small rabbits for like $5. All frozen. I've been thinking of picking up a small freezer and just ordering from Layne Labs. Doing the math, even with shipping, I would still save some although not a huge amount. The biggest bonus is I wont have to drive to the shop like 3 times a month as keeping them in the family freezer was frowned up harshly lol.

I breed my own and sell them for .....

fuzzy/pups .90 each bags of 10-25-100
weanling(35-50grams) 1.10 each bags of 25
smalls (50-90grams) 1.25 each bags of 25
mediums (100-170grams) 1.50 each bags of 20
large (180-250) 2.00 each bags of 10


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If you feed frozen your best option would be to order 6 months worth or more from bug cheese or something and vacuum seal them and when your down to 2-3 weeks left make another order.

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