Another dumeril boa vs Columbian boa question

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thanks for the detailed reply. Do you have a picture of your 6' Colombian girl? Would you say she is at the size of a full grown male Columbian at this point? Is she on rabbits yet? I mainly interested in only feeding her rats is because I will be having a rat colony and feeder rabbits are hard to come by in my area. Honestly I'm more concern with the heft and girth more than the length. I don't want to end up with a boa that I can't handle by myself but looking at video of male Columbian boa on YouTube make me feel they are too small, I'm not sure if it's because most of them are breeder and kept small.

Sorry I don't. I live in the dark ages and don't have a smart phone as I don't need one. I am going to buy a little camera one of these days(I always say that but I end up buying stuff for my beardie or snakes haha). She is probably about the size of a full grown male. Now males can get larger than 6' but that's not the norm. She is definitely thicker than a male. She is about as thick as a pop can or maybe a little thinner. She isn't on rabbits, I feed her medium rats as she is a little overweight so I have been restricting her feeding. She can eat weaned rabbits which I might try next week when I feed her.

Males will definitely be smaller, most notably in girth. I would be surprised if you couldn't handle a male as boas are pretty mellow to start with. Its the girth that gets you. Like my 6' is almost as thick as a pop can yet she still thinks she is a baby and tries to ride on my shoulders and neck which can be a pain especially when she decides she wants to drive and blocks my face lol. If you are concerned, just get a male and after a couple years if you find he is easily manageable, then maybe look at a girl. You will learn boas are like Pringles, you cant just stop at one. Heck I've been getting the itch for a male high expression jungle but I need to get 2x AP T13 cages first so I can shuffle around my girls into the bigger cages and stick my BP in my Proline which my big girl is in now.

Oh also remember, boas grow slow so its going to be a long time before a girl is going to get to 8' unless you power feed them. My sunglow gal is almost 2 years old and is only 4'. Also as you see them everyday, you don't really notice the size unless you really look at it or they start dragging on the floor when you carry them and then realize you got an extra 2 feet of snake you didn't notice before lol. Their fastest growth is the first 3 years, after that it slows down a lot but they do have growth spurts.