I personally love the BCI's and BCC's. Let me just say, I was concerned about size when I first got Prometheus. Now Prometheus is in the picture with my husband. However, here is his baby picture back in 2005:





Now I don't have pictures of him growing up because unfortunately, they are not digital and my scanner isn't working right now. Those baby pictures I scanned a while ago.

As for size, I purposely got male because I didn't know if I could handle a larger female. I was nervous for my first snake. No lie... now I am pretty confident...lol

Prometheus took years to get large. I remember when I bought this house 3 years ago, he could hang out around my arm pretty easily as sorta seen here:


So at 4 years of age, he was probably only eating small rats getting ready to move up towards medium rats. Ball Pythons move up in prey size quicker than boa's. (From my experience).

Personally, the dwarf boa's are beautiful but they are not as diversified with morphs as the BCI's.

Here is a sunglow that was born in 2008:
Baby photo:


Here he was 2 years old:


This picture was taken just a few weeks ago (4 years old):


Another 2008 snake, hypo cyclone:
Arrival pictures in 2009:




In 2011: (3 years old)




The end of 2011 before I put him in with my albino for breeding:


A jungle born in 2010:


Taken in the summer of 2011: (You can see how little he still is at 1 year of age)


Taken this past winter (couldn't resist, he was coloring up so nicely)





Here are a couple of 2011 babies: (taken after it warmed up here recently)

A snow:





An arabesque:





So, as you can see, I don't think they grow very fast. If you get a baby, it doesn't matter if it is male or female, you will be completely comfortable with them when they get bigger because you were there while they grew.

Just for show, a couple pictures of my BCC's:

A 2009 Suriname:


A 2008 Suriname: (Breeding with my female in the previous post)


When it comes to boa's, I wouldn't worry about size as much as a boa that just grabs your attention. A boa will be fine in a 4 foot enclosure. If you can go bigger, than that is great but it is not requirement.

If you do get a boa, please, please, please, shoot me a PM to the link. I would LOVE to see pictures and with my work schedule, I don't get on here as much as I would like to and I miss a lot of threads.

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