With my bigger girl I don't have to think about it too hard, since she only eats live and mice are way too small for her, but with Kirby and the new girl I'm adding to my collection I'm debating ordering a larger batch of frozen rodents online. The pet stores near me are a little pricey considering I'm wanting to expand, not to mention they recently had some recalls of their frozen feeders due to salmonella or something like that. Kirby does fine with medium mice, and I've been told the girl I'm getting on Thursday is eating on hopper mice, but I've also heard that rats are generally better feeders for ball pythons?

Should I keep the smaller girls on mice, or just switch them over to rats altogether? If so, what size rat (or mouse, if not) would be appropriate size? Also I'm thinking that Kirby is a little on the small side, she was eating on mice fuzzies weekly for her first few months (got her and a pack of 50 fuzzies in February), and I only recently moved her up to medium mice . She refuses food if i offer it to her more often than once every seven days, but otherwise she's an eating machine, so I'm confident that she can get to where she needs to be if she's behind.

Kirby - 135g
New baby - 85g
Chelsea (currently on small rats) - 785g