Also, if she does not feed during a week, what do I do with the rat? I have an empty 30 gallon which I could convert. It doesn't really seem like a good idea to me to continually stress out the rodent by picking it up with tongs and dangling it infront of the BP every weekend. I do not necessarily want to start a colony of either rats or ASFs at the moment. We are operating out of an apartment and space is limited + the smell (I hear its miniscule) + the landlord would probably freak out, he knows about the reptiles, not about the feeders.