Thanks, Treaux. Dreadfully, I am preparing to start breeding my own rats... lol I basically don't have a choice, whether I want to or not. Even with just the 13 snakes I currently have, I already have to have a pretty wide variety of prey sizes available all the time. But, once babies start popping their heads out (hopefully within the next few months), I will definitely need to have live readily available to get them all eating, etc. As it is, it is very difficult (and costly) to have live medium/large rats available. To my disbelief, I recently learned that Petco and other pet stores will not even sell customers live mice or rats if they know they are being fed to reptiles and the prices they're putting on them are absurd. My rat guy that I buy my frozen/thawed from semi-locally also breeds his own rats, though. So, i'm sure I could get good deals from him on live rats. I guess I need to get a little more serious about getting setup for rat breeding/keeping...