Would a male ball python reach 5 feet

[Sauzo]

That the age of the boa is way off you don,t have to repeat this argument. You can,t own a boa where i live without having identification papers. He is registered. I have him since he was a month old. I told you before that i was there when he was born. So if you still have doubts its your problem. I will post a photo of him in my hand when i bought him, he was a month old. Suddenly you are comparing retic with boa. And you feed frozen. Its not unusual for BCI to reach 10 feet.
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"It's not unusual for BCI to reach 10 feet" With that comment alone, i rest my case on your snake knowledge. Maybe where you come from but in the states, i have never seen a 10 foot BCI. I have seen people claim on the boards they have a 10 foot BCI and show a pic but there is never anything to compare it to and people also tend to exaggerate. Said 10 foot snake put up against a measuring tape ends up being a 7 foot snake lol. Now i have seen 9-10' BCC but those were old snakes that the owners had for 10+ years

And where you live, you have to have ID papers for each snake? Where do you live and how do they register them? I mean is there a department of reptiles? Do you have to get a photo of them with weight and everything like a drivers license and then they are entered into a state/city/county database? That's wild.

And i wasnt comparing a retic to a boa. You linked a feeding video which really showed nothing other than a boa eating a rat. I was saying its not that impressive as i have seen snakes eat for the part 25 years and if i really want to watch a snake eat, i would watch my retic as he is 7' and cant eat some very impressive size meals. So i guess in a way i was comparing i guess but only through the point of eating.

And honestly it's not a problem for me as i know my snakes will live long healthy lives since i feed them correctly. I was more trying to help you so you dont have a dead boa in 5-10 years from fatty liver disease or a heart attack from it growing too fast and putting too much strain on its organs. The only problem is have if any is that you ask for advice and then when given the same answer from multiple people who have kept snakes for years, you argue the point and dont listen. Why even ask for advice then? It makes no sense lol.

And yes i feed FT. Honestly FT has a less chance of transferring parasites to the snake as freezing will kill most of them. With feeding live, you should take a fecal sample into your vet once a year for a float to be done. Plus with something as large as large rats or rabbits, they can pose a real threat to your snake if an accident does happen. Plus i couldnt imagine feeding live quail or chicks to my snakes so thats why i do FT. I give them rabbits, chicks, quails, rats. My retic gets all that plus guinea pigs and if he gets much larger, i will probably be ordering FT piglets from Monster Feeders lol.