Nickel - My Agouti Berkshire Boy
I have provided a few links below to good guides on keeping rats.
You will find the two lists and the mirc chatroom described in the ratchat links a great help for general help and care questions and for medical questions. For medical questions you can also try rathelp@yahoo.com or http://ratguide.com/
The first port of call for rat care information and for rat related articles to purchase is Robyn at http://www.dapper.com.au/.
A couple of rat guides here:
http://members.tripod.com/krisik0/id3.htm
Eoz has put together this great list of rat vets for Australia here: http://www.fluffybunnies.com/vets.php
A good Australian Guide is here:
http://www.sparkle-sparkle.com/care/care.php
If you have a problem or a question about rat care not answered by any of these sources you can contact me on amberdawn@iinet.net.au