I wouldn't say I have limited space but I definatly don't have a lot of it. We have a two bedroom townhome and once we actually roll up our sleeves and get everything organized we should have enough room to do what we need to as far as snakes. In the second bedroom we have our snakes (minus those in quarantine), gliders, and breeder mice. The mice currently live in tubs and tanks and will soon be moved into only tanks since the tubs I'm using are only big enough to house two mice.

Well I was wondering. Do rats take up more space than mice? I was hoping to make a rodent rack soon so my mice wouldn't take up so much space. I'm realizing though that as my ball pythons get larger, they are going to need larger prey. They are all around 200g, some less, some more, but around there and they all eat one mouse per week that is around 20-25g. Is this too little? And would it be a better idea to switch them to rats? What are the pros and cons to keeping rats as breeders? Monthly cost for food, bedding, ect. I'm hoping to start pricing things for a rack soon so I want to know if I'm going to be building a rat rack or a mouse rack because if rats are easier then thats what I'm going to go with.