Quote Originally Posted by Ginevive
At that length, you could get away with feeding a small mouse; I would leave rats for later. A half grown mouse would be a good size; one that's about 2 inches long not including tail. You could feed live for now, carefully supervising of course. My main concern would be to get the snake onto cheaper mice and off of $$ gerbils!
amen gerbils are like 8 bucks at my local petstore and (great deal) all white feeder rodents eg mice rats no matter what the size are 2 bucks (which is the the higher end of the general mouse price range)

ps ginevive is that a pacman frog on ur avatar?