You will see that Jacksonville is a HORRIBLE place to find feeders. There are a few pet shops that carry them, but they are of the lowest quality, and too expensive.

$3.50 for a small rat... That isn't bad for around here. I highly recomend buying them a week ahead of time tho. This allows time to let them have a few healthy meals with quality, clean water before being served up to your snakes.

The local market for rodents isn't very big. On top of that, recently a few of the local breeders were shut down by the city for breaking various rules. In fact, for a while Petco and Petsmart were not even allowed to buy any rodents from the breeder they were contracted with... because they were shut down by the city. Even though they could not buy from the contracted breeder, the contract made it impossible to buy from other suppliers!

Anyways, unfortunately this is the situation.... and it likely wont' get better any time soon.

What are you used to paying for live rodents????