I truly love all my boa's. Right now I have a coral albino female, a sunglow male, and I central American Hypo female. They are just awesome. They are so curious and seem to really like to be out of their enclosures. Yes they do get quite a bit larger than bp's, but that is part of their appeal to me. Just make sure that you are comfortable handling a larger snake before you get one. If you want a hog keep an eye on kingsnake.com and fauna classifieds. I see them there on a regular basis. Also watch some of the facebook auctions. I think that Ben Segal had one that he auctioned off a few days ago.