Pictures of full grown male boas

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First off, don't be put off by size. You grow with the snake, and usually once people feel confident they actually wish they had something a little larger. With boas, BCC or BCI the name of the game is feeding and husbandry when it comes to size. You can grow a nice long, lean, muscular boa by feeding properly. If you maintain temps on the higher end of the spectrum, you'll have a BC that digests faster and can eat another meal sooner. This is fine in the summer, but I use methods that mimmic seasonal changes now that my male is mature and drop the temps in the winter, and I provide a night drop as well year round. He is going close to 6 feet and will be 3 years old in 2 days.

As stated the Suriname and Guyana BCCs are some of the largest. Probably the biggest of all are the Iquitos, Peruvian BCC, really and of the Amazon Basin BCCs can get large. But the large, wild boa are far from fat. They can be 12 feet long and pure muscle.

Also note the largest boas are the ones that are the oldest. Keep a snake properly and it will thrive and live a long time. They don't stop growing, they just slow down a lot.

Gus Rentfro and Vincent Russo are excellent sources, and Vincent Russo wrote THE COMPLETE BOA CONSTRICTOR

This is a male, Barranquilla, Colombian boa.

This is technically a BCI, but it has qualities of BCC boas. It is said the particular locality if what a natural cross between BCC and BCI would look like.


You can see in the pictures that he is very lean.








Just when you think 6 feet is huge, you see them curled up and they look small again.





There is sexual size dimorphism in boa constrictors and it favors the females. However, a male BC without any female BCs in the house experiences no pheromonal cues from a female to breed, and if you are just raising you male BC as a non-breeding pet, it could attain a large size.

I suspect my BC will maybe get close 6.5 to 7 feet long.

This last picture was about a year ago to the day.