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    Re: Is my BCI too small for her age?

    Quote Originally Posted by kath_ View Post
    Oh goodness, I really undershot that length estimate. Oops!
    Eh, hard to say. There’s definitely forced perspective in the photos, we don’t know your height, makes it difficult to determine a relationship between the size of the snake relative to your size, etc. Body condition on the snake looks good. I’d stay with your current husbandry and feeding practices. It’s relatively hard to underfeed a boa, but incredibly easy to overfeed and harder to undo the damage of the latter. Less is more with boas.


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    Re: Is my BCI too small for her age?

    Tina looks great. nice and healthy great shape to and awsome markings , she looks hypo to Me too with the bow tie saddles

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    Re: Is my BCI too small for her age?

    I agree with what the others have said thus far. Tina looks great! She has the body shape you want to see in a BI in those photos -- a nice and muscular square with slightly rounded corners. Just keep doing what you're doing with her

    Like jmcrook said, it's much easier to overfeed a boa than it is to underfeed one. I think a lot of people in the hobby are used to seeing overgrown and/or power-fed boas and have accidentally internalized them as "the norm." Your average, properly fed female common BI is probably around 5-6ft at maturity, not the 6-8 ft some guides like to list. [For the record, that would be the proper length range for female true red tails -- true BC are larger than BI on net.] They're still impressively sized animals, but not huge.

    Oh, and if you ever want to get a precise length on your snakes, give this snake measurement tool a try: http://serpwidgets.com/main/measure
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    Re: Is my BCI too small for her age?

    Thanks everyone for the helpful feedback! I'm so relieved to know that she looks healthy. I was pretty worried I had stunted her growth. I guess I'm so used to seeing giant boas all over the internet and at expos. Whenever you google "boa constrictor full grown" so many different results come up and I was having a hard time gauging how big she should be by this age. Other than bumping her up to one medium rat every three weeks, I'll keep her husbandry the same.

    Some results from google. I think some of these are BCCs so that might explain the varying sizes:




    1.0 Normal ball python (Buddy)
    0.1 Colombian boa (Tina)

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