Quote Originally Posted by jglass38 View Post
I am definitely going to do that. Do you set up your replacement groups while they are still young or when you need a new group do you just pull a male and 3 females from your raise up tubs? I don't have the space to always have 7 extra groups waiting to go if they need to be already together. Hope that makes sense.
Yep sure does. When I first pull my weanlings I put them all in 10 gallon tanks just for a week or two to see that they are all healthy and adjusting to being without their family group. After that week I seperate the males and females into grow out feeder tanks since I do need some larger sized ASF's (some of my female balls would eat a whole damn little litter of ASF's if I didn't LOL). At that time I pull my future breeders and put the one male and X number of females in a 10 gallon tank.

It does mean I've got tanks full of not-as-yet producing groups taking up space but I'm just not sure if I can wait until they are bigger. I'd hate to see the females turn on the "stranger" male and kill him, wasting all my time in growing them to breeding size in the first place. They seem so unaccepting of new rats once they've started to grow up that I'm just hesitant to do it any other way right now.