Peruvian Long Tail Boa

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BCL can get up to 7' long, but they are much much thinner-bodied than most boa constrictor species/subspecies so they wouldn't seem as big.

Boas 6'+ can eat rabbits if that's what you want to do, but I wouldn't consider it necessary until they're about 8'. Then you'd do a mix of large rats and rabbits, as rabbits by themselves are too much food and large rats by themselves are too little. I would honestly not go to xl or jumbos whatsoever, as even spaced apart boas gain a ton of weight on them. My newest female is maybe 7' and has been eating xl/jumbo rats once every 1-2 months and she's still like 4+ lbs heavier than she was when she got gravid last year. She's currently 13.5 lbs and was 9.2 lbs last year around the time she was bred. That was a few months before she was bred but there's no weight records taken when she was actually bred so she may have been close to 10 lbs at the actual time of breeding, and she was 10 lbs just a few months after giving birth. She normally eats a regular large rat every 1-2 months but her breeder wanted her back up to weight to be bred this year, I'm going to put her back on regular larges as the earliest I'll breed her is next fall/winter. So, as you can see, they really gain weight quickly on the bigger rats.

After reading through Vin Russo's section on BCL in The Complete Boa Constrictor, care seems very similar to most other boas, but he does mention keeping them a little dryer than his other species. I'm assuming 50-60% as it wasn't mentioned directly, but I'm sure they could be kept at the usual 70-80% with little troubles, especially if you don't plan on breeding.