Quote Originally Posted by mommanessy247 View Post
i thought about breeding my own feeders but with only 1 bp i would end up with more rats then she could eat. i used to buy enough live rats for the month which was 4-5 at a time but was running into the problem of the last 1 or 2 rats growing too big for my girl (she's super picky about the size she'll take). so now i'm buying a rat every feeding day which is approximately every 10 days.
As far as the smell goes, i was doing complete cleanings of the rat tank every week and even with 5 rats in the 10 gallon tank the smell never got really bad. by complete cleaning, i mean emptying it, washing it with hot water & soap and putting in completely clean bedding. i hardly noticed any smell unless i had my face directly over the tank.
buying a rat every feeding day is kind of a pain cuz the store is 1/2 an hour away in another state but we'd rather do that then end up with a rat thats too big and causing a refusal & end up having to go to the store anyways to trade it...
Yea I have run into the same problem, even if I buy rats small, feed multiples the first couple of weeks until they're grown to appropriate size, then just feed one, they outgrow that appropriate size range really quickly. And given that BP's eat like, one a week.. Thats why when it comes to keeping live or breeding its only mice. Rats have to be bought regularly if bought live. Otherwise frozen would be perfect.