Which big snake should I choose?

[Sauzo]

To the OP, for my last boa I was also looking for light/bright colors but on a budget. I ended up looking for and acquiring a nice clean jungle, she is possible het for some stuff but I'm not breeding her I just wanted her for her and a good clean jungle will have nice popping collars a cool pattern and just gets prettier with age (in my opinion).
One thing I would like to add for your edification and also to solicit some advice from everyone else is that ours are very slow growers, especially if you feed them properly with their health as a priority. That, for me, is a bit of a negative. I love my boas to death but it drives me crazy to think of how long I'm going to have to wait before they have some real size and that is why the large pythons appeal to me so much. My understanding (and pleasecorrect me if I'm wrong on this or any other point) is that retics grow more quickly than burms, but burms grow very quickly compared to boas.

Never had a burm but i can definitely tell you retics grow fast lol. Caesar went from 2' long at 5 months old to now 7' at 1.3 years old. Just note that retics or at least Caesar is not a cuddly little lounger like the boas. He is a gogogo machine that is as nice as the boas but just doesnt really like to sit still unless in his cage. In his cage, he is laid back and i can reach in, pet him, push him around to clean poops and other stuff and he just goes with the flow. Feeding time though, he is crazier than the boas and the boas are pretty freakin scary at dinner time. I almost got tagged by Gina last night during feeding time. She smelled mice on my hand and shot at me twice lol. And Louie is like Caesar at dinner time. When he smelled his mouse, he shot straight in the air and grabbed the tong but wrapped the mouse lol. He let go of the tong and just stared at me while he held his mouse. He let go of the mouse and I reached in slowly with the tongs and picked up his mouse. He spun around, saw me taking his mouse and flew at it with mouth open and grabbed it haha. He's crazy when it comes to food.