What size is best for first snake?

wow those females at the bottom look really nice! Are you able to reserve them or something? I'm having trouble navigating the page for some reason.
Also, which of those females at the bottom looks the best? BPF-296 and BP598-F look nice to me

I don't think you'd go wrong with either of those girls, and they're both good sized already and will (should) eat frozen-thawed for you. you can use the numbers on the site to order the specific animal you want, as long as it's still listed when you're ready to buy. Alex would probably also be willing to sell you the animal and delay shipment for a reasonable time (say a week), while you finish getting set up for it.

I was able to find 7-9 month olds from the Sutherlands (the first link I sent), babies on the NERD link and the third link (EBV) they have babies listed on their price list. I think you have to contact them to verify availability.

BTW, how long is a BP considered a baby? o_O

How long a ball python takes to mature includes a couple of varieables one being age and the second being weight males tend to become sexually mature between 16-18 months (some as early as 12) at a weight of 500-900 grams females become sexually mature as early as 18-24 months but the generally acepted breeding age is around 3 years @ about 1500 grams after all that I would say a ball python is no longer a baby with proper feeding at about the age of 6 months to a year

So snakes are considered adults when they are sexually mature and not when they are physically mature? Of course, I don't even know how to tell when a snake is physically mature.

Thanks for the responses again ^_^ So from what you say Robert is that at 6 months it should weigh around what for a female?

Tigerg the majority of a ball pythons growth is done in the first 2-3 years after that they still grow but very little so its more a matter of opinion what you would call physically mature these animals dont abide the same rules we do there is no "legal age" lol If a female is produceing follicles and a male produceing sperm and they meet up in the wild they will breed . alot of the size issues you see as far as breeding go are totally related to produceing the most eggs and the best chance of even produceing eggs at all
as far as weight for a 6 month old female it is entirely up to feeding and genetics on average 300-600 would be a ball park by the second year should weigh any where from 1200-1600 grams some may stop around this point and some go on to be 2500-3000 gram girls .males on the other hand once they go off feed for their first breeding season tend to stop growing all together and more or less bounce back and forth during on and off cycles

So all in all you would say a 6month old female is still considered a baby right?

Thanks for the info Robert!