Quote Originally Posted by Neal View Post
If you are on rats that's great because eventually you would have to switch over anyways, and sometimes bp's don't like to switch.
Why would you have to switch? I happen to feed rats exclusively to my collection, but that's because that's what I breed. But I raised most of my females to breeding weight exclusively on mice before I started breeding my own food.

To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the nutritional requirements of ball pythons. So to say one prey is better for your snake than another can't be backed up with existing scientific data.