Quote Originally Posted by Kagez28
i have been doing my feeder math as well and i am actually picking up a breeding trio tomorrow. heres some things i had to get

a 20 g tank for the male to live in
2 10 gal maturnity tanks
2 68 qt tubs to house weaned rats (male/female), with hardwear cloth to make tops.
5 water bottles
5 food dishes
a nice large bag of substrate
food: rolled oats, rasian bran, puffed wheat, senior dog food, and fruity trail mix

as of now i need 8 pinkies, 1 pup and a small each week. to me it's worth it, as i plan on only breeding 2 females, so i won't have too many numbers.

i easily spent $60 not including the rats, on this set up, (i had the tanks laying around too so you might ave to buy all those). it's alot more work then it sounds.
But...your math doesn't work. You will have 3 females - say you breed one each week with the male - that means you will get babies at week 4, 5 and 6 (basically a month from breeding) you can expect 12 (avg. size litter) you will feed off 8 each week (pinkies - but have to wait 2 more weeks(a week for a pup and another week for a small) before all the babies are gone) - so what do you do for the next 6 weeks when you don't have babies coming to feed off??

Basically you need 1 litter being born every week - so you don't have enough breeders to do that.