When I got two feeders for the ball pythons today, I asked the man to get the smallest small mice he could find. He went to the back, plopped two mice into the box and I paid and left. I was too excited about bringing home the pastel to look at what he had given me. They hadn't gotten their week supply of feeders yet so I was stuck with whatever they had given me. I got home, got the pastel all settled in and then went to deal with the feeders. One was probably just small enough for Sadis to eat, but the other I would guess to be almost a full grown mouse. Definatly too big for either of the ball pythons.

I asked my fiance what we should do with it and my fiance said we could return it, but that would require another 30 min drive there and a 30 min drive back all to return a mouse. I then suggested that since we now have 5 snakes, perhaps it would be a good time to start breeding our own feeders since just for the ball pythons it is costing us over $30 a month. So we both agreed to keep the mouse as a breeder. I believe it to be female, but I will double check. We are currently keeping it in a 10g tank with a water bottle and some dry cat food (didn't have time to rush out to the store to buy mouse food. Not to mention, Petsmart only carries crap food)

So now comes my questions.

One snake is on fuzzies (the king), two are on hoppers (the normal balls, though they are graduating up to small mice soon) and the other two are on small mice (the pastel and the snow corn).

In order to produce enough feeders for this bunch and have the correct size each week, how many breeder females and how many breeder males do we need?

We do not have a rack system for them but instead we have one ten gallon tank. We could get another tank as a grow out tank for feeders and a small tub as a vacation tub for tired females. We can always make a CO2 chamber and freeze any left over babies for use with the cornsnake. She eats anything that is put in front of her.

Any suggestions on temporary fixes until I can get good food and proper bedding (on newspaper right now).