Quote Originally Posted by fattielumpkin View Post
crazy thing is she is an 04. and only weighs 700 grams. She has been on a diet of mice.
I'm tired of people saying that mice are a bad choice of prey item. I have a female who I rescued in 2006. She was over 3 years old and 780g. From May 2006 to December 2006, she gained over 1500g on a diet of around 3 mice a week.

There's NO reason any Ball Python can't thrive on a diet of mice.

Now.. 1 mouse a month, I can understand weight loss. But if the mice are healthy and well-fleshed and add up to whatever weight of rat you're planning on feeding (2-25g mice equals a 50g rat), then your snake will thrive just as well as a snake on rats.