its been a lot of help thanks sooo much! I don't really have anyone around me, or have any friends that are into herps, or taking care of any critters for that matter. So you guys are my only source of "person-to-person" advice I can get haha!

I just looked at the schedule wrong, I'm a dummy, it is once a week haha. I don't have any babies so I won't have to shorten the small rat supply in my collection, so I'm hoping (4) 3:1 colonies will do the trick for me. I got them on 6F so they should be fine in terms of nutririon. I would like to be completely self sustaining at one point for my snakes, and not have to worry about finding feeders from someone else. I also visited the local pet store and was b/sing with the owner, and I mentioned to him that I breed, and might be interested in buying from me(told him 90 cents a rat)! So that would be cool to be able to sell as well. Maybe just start up another few colonies just for his store? I'm not trying to profit a lot, but if I'm already doing it ya know why not a few more, to make a few more $ lol.

I tell ya though it weird breeding rats. Cuz at first you set it all up and don't think much of it. But after tending to them so much, you really kinda start enjoying raising them up, and doing all the dirty work, regardless if there feeders lol. Really appreciate the help!! How many breeders did you have when you started snakegirl?