Hi everyone,

I have been keeping 3 ball pythons for the last year. I absolutely love them. But I want to take a step towards a more intermediate snake, in terms of both size and husbandry (but mostly size). I am currently very torn between 1) a Sumatran Short Tailed Python and 2) a Common BCI Boa.

I absolutely love the looks of all black Sumatran short tails. My hesitation is that their husbandry is difficult and less forgiving in the way of temps and humidity, but more so, that they are not great handling snakes.

I like boa's a lot - but I am a bit concerned with just how big they get.

So my goal is to move to something larger than balls - but I really want a friendly snake which I can hang out with and handle a lot. I know that temperament varies a lot animal to animal even within species, but I wanted to post this specifically under the blood python section to see if someone has or has had a Sumatran Short Tailed python which was a very good handling snake. I like the Sumatran Short tail more in terms of look and size, but my #1 goal here is to move up in size and have an awesome handling snake that I can completely trust (with proper attention, care and caution of course).