Quote Originally Posted by bpdesign View Post
I used both for a long period of time but I am currently changing my snakes slowly over to mice completely. The reason being, I breed my rodents and the mice as more convenient. The mice take up less room, can handle more babies, and I don't have to euthanize retired breeders and find someone to take them like with the rats. With a mouse colony, I can use all sizes (except pinkies) for my snakes.
You may want to re-think that. If you ever have to re-home your snakes, a lot of people don't want ball pythons that only eat mice, as feeding several mice per week gets a lot more expensive than feeding one small rat per week.