Quote Originally Posted by Mezclado_Reps
That way they aren't spending all that energy killing another item, but they get the better, nutritious rat!
Rats aren't necessarily "better" than mice. There are no studies on the nutritional "requirements" of ball pythons, so no one can definitively say that rats are better than mice for ball pythons.

Yes, you may have to feed multiple mice if you have a mouser, but in my experience, my mousers have the same growth rate as my ratters.

This girl is 1500 grams and only gets two mice a week.



Joanna has a large female that only eats mice as well and the snake would probably insist that mice are "better" than rats to her!