I understand your hesitation. And it's smart to consider all aspects of owning a large reptile. keep in mind that the Internet tends to consolidate polarized examples of most things. For every picture of an over fed female bcc that looks like a giant, there are 10,000 healthy sized and properly grown snakes. My breeder BCI males spend the vast majority of their life in a 41 qt sterilite tub. That's not very big at all.