I would also check out Shannon Roepke at Ethereal Exotics and Mike Zosso. They both work with lots of SD stuff and make some awesome looking stuff.
If you can handle a boa, you can handle a SD retic fine. They stay thinner that boas, just a little longer and obviously more active. The biggest thing to prepare yourself for is how much they can piss and poop lol. And the biggest downside is their pushing sometimes. That single thing has been the source of my worry for Caesar. His lip was fat and i was so stressed he broke a tooth and it didnt go down for about a week. Well it turns out, he was going into shed at the same time so his head did the shedding swell which made the face look even worse lol. Now the swelling is down and he is being his antisocial shed self and all dull. I went to check on his face and lifted his hide and pulled him out and threw him over my shoulder. He sat there and gave me stink eye the whole time and didnt move lol. His face looked 100 times better and thats when i saw he was going into shed. I put him back and have only seem him a couple times this week when he poked his head to look at me lol.