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I have 4 spotted pythons that eat an adult mouse a week each. It's getting too expensive to buy mice, so I wanted to make a mouse colony. Will 4 pythons be enough to keep the size down, or will the mice breed and take over?

I don't have any idea what to do and any tips anyone has (even really obvious ones) would be much appreciated. What do they eat, what doy uo house them in, do you sex them or just buy a few to start, etc.?
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I suggest buying frozen in bulk. Breeding mice is easy, but takes time and the smell is not the greatest. If you do decide to breed, 1 male to every 4-5 females is a good ratio. But you have to remember, if they are old enough to breed, it takes 21 days to have babies and then you will have to wait for the babies to grow. If you get a female that has large litters, 9-12, you will get a couple weeks worth of feeders per female. So with the time it takes to get the babies to the right size, you are going to need a lot of breeding females to keep up with production. Then you have the cost of feeding, time for care, housing issues for all those mice. It ends up being cheaper in the long run to just go to someplace like rodentpro.com and buy a bunch of frozen.