Would a male ball python reach 5 feet

[Dutti]

"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.

There is a department for animals in general. I'm not sure if dogs also get registered there or in a different department because I don't own dogs. But snakes are divided according to their kinds, some kinds are considered dangerous so they require registration and you get an approval letter to own them from the department and they get entered into a state/city/county database. In order to get the approval letter, the snake must have a kind of a birth certificate where it's kind and date of birth is registered. No photos are required. Other kinds of snakes like ball pythons don't have to be registered but they must have a birth certificate as a proof of origin. And some other kinds don't need even a birth certificate like corn snakes. The kinds that considered highly endangered in the wild like Dumeril boa must be registered in a different department with a photo documentation and they are entered into a state/city/county data base. Every year photos of the snake must be made and get stamped by the department.