I breed my own rats, too. I started out with a couple ten gallon tanks, 1.4 in each. They've expanded to three ten gallon tanks and four fifteen gallon long tanks. I've got 20 snakes I feed rats to, from yearling sand boas who eat rat pinks, to corn snakes who eat juvies, to my red tailed boas who eat several adults at a time. I still have to sell off 30-60 rats a month to the local reptile store. DON'T but commercial pet store rodent food if you're gonna raise a number of rats. It's too expensive. My personal mix is 1 ten lb bag wild bird seed, 1 ten lb bag wild bird sunflower seeds, 1 ten lb bag squirrel food (corn, peanuts, and sunflower seeds), 1 eight lb bag generic dry dog food, 1 eight lb bag parrot food. Sometimes I'll add a bag of unsalted popcorn (they love that.) There are simpler and cheaper ways to go, but until they're fed to the snakes, they're pets. They also get the stems from the greens when I make my iguana food. Just make sure you keep them fed and watered, because if not, they will kill and each other. Good luck.

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