I do like mice, my boyfriend likes them more. He wanted to breed rats too when the snake gets bigger. I'm all for just getting a gerbil and keeping a pet lol. I think I'll have a hard time euthanizing the mice and leave that to him.

What's a grow out? And also, I don't want them to go crazy breeding since it is only the one snake. Right now he is eating 3 hopper mice a week. We were planning to move up to the next size after tonight. We have fed him 2 so far this week and he is still hungry so we're feeding him the third. If he doesn't seem satiated after the 3rd I dunno what to think. But thats why it also seemed like a good idea to start breeding. It's getting expensive to buy him all those mice all the time. Plus he wastes so many of them on his picky days/weeks. I don't really know what pace to breed though. How often, for one snake, should I want the mice to breed? And if i keep them all in the same tank, won't they all start breeding like crazy at some point? Or will the snake go through them faster than they'll have the chance?