Quote Originally Posted by Dr_Gonz0
Do you find rats are better to feed than mice?
No, I do not. Over the last 10 years I can't tell you how many siblings that I've raised where one or more would be a mouser and one or more would be a rat eater and when fed gram for gram similar amounts each week they grow at the exact same rate.

Some ball pythons prefer mice to rats and vice versa ... either one is convenient for me to feed, so I go with what my snakes tell me they want. In the end, it's their best interest and health that I'm most concerned with and not how much food I can pump into them to get them "up to size".

Listen to your snakes, they'll guide you.

-adam