Quote Originally Posted by STEW View Post
If you go to the red tail boa forums, they will tell you and Im pretty sure I seen it somewhere online that rats are higher in certain areas of nutrition. I dont know if its fact.
Yes, they are higher in some nutritional values, and mice are higher than others.

Since no studies have been done on the nutritional REQUIREMENTS of ball pythons, both mice and rats could have a higher nutritional value than the snakes need.

Therefore, no one can state conclusively that either one is better than the other. There's no scientific study to back those claims up.