I think it would definitely be worth it. Right now I've got 8 bps and my current colony size is 56!!! *faints* Most of them are babies that I'm waiting to get up to size to feed off. I've got 2 males and 7 females that are breeders, the rest are babies. I started breeding when I only had a few ball pythons and never had a problem with surplus because I would freeze the pinkies I didn't need. You can freeze them until they open their eyes/ears, after that you really need to CO2 them.

Even with this crazy amount of rats I'm still saving money compared to buying frozen from the pet store or online. A 25 pound bag of Mazuri rat food costs me $17. So far it seems as though it will last me at least a month even with this number of rats, but I also feed a low protein dog food (any dog food that is under $50 a bag-read the ingredients list people). I feed about 1/3 dog food to 2/3 rat food to the moms, the rest just get rat food.