Quote Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons View Post
On side note this video is 4 months old, but the 2 rats you see in the beginning with red/pink eyes. What would they be as i kept one and shes now a white rex siamese pink eye.
They appear to be non-agouti based Siamese. Which is good, agouti Siamese have more diluted points. Meaning, you are working with some decent Siamese genetics! If you have a line of Blues, you can breed them into the Siamese and have Blue Point Siamese Rats.

Quote Originally Posted by MoshBalls View Post
What do you all do with your special rats? Do you breed specials to sell in addition to your feeders?
Quote Originally Posted by lasweetswan View Post
I'm glad you asked this. I was wondering the same thing. Are these colonies kept as pets or sold as feeders? My reason for asking is because if they are being sold as feeders, what importance is the coat marking? I could understand if they are being kept as pets why they would be bred for a certain trait. Just curious
Personally, I breed pets only. I used to breed for feeders, but I started liking the rats too much and switched over to f/t.

As for feeder breeders leaning towards wanting the really fancy rats, I guess I can understand that too. It adds an interesting aspect to the hobby and with most people into Ball Pythons, one of the things that is fascinating is the genetics. Which is on turbo speed mode with rats. You get to mess around with genetics at a much more rapid pace. Just my thoughts anyway.