They can be touchier about temps, more prone to respiratory issues so main thing is keeping your humidity good but not soaking the cage and temps not too hot or cold, my temps range from 79-82 and sometimes with a hotspot of 85. With a pvc cage, the right bedding and quality heating control that is easy enough to accomplish though. They prefer to be fully supported, more of a lap snake and are pretty vocal, hissing and huffing quite a bit. Usually calm down with age, babies can be jumpy and snappy. Good feeding response, one of mine prefers live, the rest eat anything put in front of them. I have four foot boaphiles for mine and hoping that will hold them for life, seems like they get 4-6 feet, 15-30 pounds as adults.
I would probably recommend really watching who you buy from-many are selling misidentified or hybrid short tails and there's always a lot of farm bred bloods that seem to have a poor reputation for health and attitude. Borneo's are fairly inexpensive and you can find a pretty nice one for a couple hundred online from a good breeder. Bloods you get what you pay for and in all cases it's best to see the parents since coloration changes with age and can vary so much.
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