Quote Originally Posted by ShorTay View Post
Does anybody know if his lack of food has lead to stunted growth & can this be reversed?? Thanks!
I haven't noticed any stunting of growth, boas will continue to grow their entire lives. Most of my collection is slow grown, some are 6 and just coming up on 5', males and females, some of the ones around the same age are larger. I usually top males off at medium rats to keep them closer to the 5' range and females at large or jumbo to get to 6' for a good, easy to manage size that is plenty big enough to handle litters every other year. Have 2 that are 14, both are probably a little over 6'. My biggest/oldest is below.

I adopted this girl, Autumn, in '98, she was 9 years old and was about 5.5'. The lady I got her from was the second owner and had full history. This was when I brought her home:


Currently she's approx. 8.5' long, so even though above she was 9 already, she continued to grow. She gets 2 f/t jumbo rats every 4-6 weeks. She had one litter in 2003 (34 babies, only time I bred her) and is an overall terrific boa!
This photo is from a few years ago, sorry for the mess


So as you can see, they will keep getting bigger even if they had a slow start.
I hope that helps!