Quote Originally Posted by mainbutter View Post
consider this:

It will take many, many years for a snake to get full grown. Even if you went big and got a female BCC, she's not going to be a 50lb snake overnight. That's going to take many years. You'll learn how to handle her as she grows. The same goes for all your other options.

Also, you might try to stop thinking in "feet". Taiwanese blue beauties hit the 9 foot mark on occasion, and have been documented at 11 foot. I believe these snakes weigh under 5lbs at that size.

The pic I posted is probably a snake just under 10 foot, just comparing the length to the guy holding her. I can't see the end of her tail however. I believe I've read that the snake in that pic weighs 30 kilos. That's something like 65lbs.

I mentioned my carpet python earlier. She'll likely hit at least 9 foot years down the road. I doubt she'll weigh much over 20lbs if she even hits THAT, but I'm no expert on carpet python adult weights.

Try looking at pictures of OLD "fully grown" (they are always growing of course) snakes of the types you're looking at. Nothing gives you a better idea of what you'll end up with 5-10 years down the road than looking at pictures of the snake being handled.
Yeah i know what you mean... I know it will take a while.. then again burms and others get big pretty quick.
haha, i know the length has nothing to do with it but i know boas get a good size girth, i know that feet dont mean much because ive seen retics that are like 6 feet and skinny so they look really small... but i can imagine the width of a boa when its a certain length. Like that one in the pic, the length isnt that bad but the girth might be more then im used to now, but they do take a long time to get that big.

65 lbs is pretty big since its all muscle... lol thats more then my dog, and shes kinda heavy. id be able to haul the snake around but yeah... doesnt seem like it would be to fun to handle. ? or it would be a big work out. im sure it wouldnt be taht bad once i actually KNEW the snake though... but if i was like a random big snake i wouldnt want to deal with that size...

ive seen that pic u posted before, i couldnt find the site that had the other pics of a bunch of BCCs on it. some of them on that page looked bigger, and some smaller then the one posted.

ill look for some male BCC pics, its hard to find what your looking for on google though...