Question for those who breed feeders for their snakes.

[Praomys]

The Mice are Horrible, ... The 3 Rats Im going to Breed don't smell 1/8th as much as 1 mouse...

Rats definitely smell WAY less then mice !! ...

I've kept both. Mice stink, even outside, ... Currently keep two male rats...

Here's what I do, I keep rats, mice, and snakes all in the same room and there is almost no smell at all except at the end of every 5 days when it's time to clean the rodents. ... For my mice ... When I open the tank the smell about knocks me over, ... got rid of my ASFs, they produce way too slow. ... mice really stink, I can't even bring them home from the pet store without having to get them out of the cab of my truck and back in the bed of my pickup... I tried to keep mice without the carbon filter pads on top, forget about it. You can smell them the second you walk in the house.

my rats, big males included, don't smell that bad... Mice on the other hand...smell like the devil himself crapped in tinfoil and microwaved it in your house.

Many comments on how rats smell much less than mice, but not one on how ASFs smell much, much less than rats.

Re smell at end of 5 days: ASF's don't smell after 15 days.

Re ASFs producing slowly: we've seen this before when they were fed lab block. Given high protein/low fat dog food they are unstoppable (and their soft fur looks beautiful & shiny, not greasy & matted like it was on lab block). Mastomys natalensis are carnivores which consume plant matter only when animal matter is not available. Rattus norvegicus are herbivores which consume animal matter only when plant matter is not available.