I'm thinking about starting a colony for my one snake not because the store I buy my feeders at (it doesn't make sense financially to buy $50 worth of F/T feeders for $100 with shipping for me right now) is too far away but because they're still trying to get the right balance of feeders into their store - their colony can't keep up and 98% of their last order of live feeders came in dead because they weren't shipped properly. It's just about impossible to get my snake the size of feeders I want her to have right now, so I'm thinking about breeding. Which is always a possibility, but you're going to have to figure something else out in the meantime to keep him going. You might just have to stick with going all that distance to get your feeders.