I find FT more convenient for my # of snakes, in the sense that if I raised my own feeders, I would spend more time total focusing on feeding. If I had to go to the pet store to buy feeders, that'd the the MOST inconvenient.

There is a base time cost for raising rats. If I had to average producing 10 baby rats a week, compared to needing to average 100 baby rats a week, I'd spend less time per rat for the latter, so the more feeders you need, the more that raising your own feeders becomes a viable alternative if you're focusing on total time out of your week spent on feeding issues.

There are other pros and cons to feeding live and raising your own feeders, but I feel that at 10-30 snakes, I'm going to feed f/t. Above that I'd probably raise my own, but definitely not before if I only cared about convenience.

I was thinking I'd raise my own about a month ago, just because I wanted to know exactly what my feeders were raised on and how healthy they are before they get fed to my snakes. I'm putting off that decision until spring rolls by.