I love Dumeril's Boas and have been looking out for any females in the area for months (I even reached out to someone about one earlier this year and they had sold her literally the day before), and one has popped up but I have some reservations in that she seems undersized based on the info from her current owner.

She was described as "breeding size" but seemed small in her picture and was being kept in a 36" cage, so I asked for more info knowing that they are slow growers. Her owner said she's probably 5.5 years old and weighs 1700g (3.75lb), which seems about half the weight I'd expect a female of her age to be? If all of that is true, she seems stunted and I doubt she would get to the size I'd want my boa to be. Based on that, I'm leaning towards not getting her even though it's really disappointing to miss another opportunity at a Dumeril's. She's also a decent drive away and I don't really want to go that far just to examine her in person if I'm not committing.

But I have zero experience with boas and I'm really bad at estimating weights, so I'm not 100% confident in my assessment. I just know that my BP clocks in at 1300 grams and I've looked through other people's progression threads (ok, mostly the thread for redshepherd's Vigil because it has some good reference data) as a comparison, so I'd appreciate a second opinion from anyone with more experience.