My 1st Red Tail Boa

[Sauzo]

Nice Boa!

I am new to Boa's, and got my first BCI, Behira, last year. She will be 2 this year (she's a 2016). She is awesome. Great eater, docile, and very interactive.

The males are usually quite a bit smaller than the females. From what I have heard, and others can correct me, a BCI male should be 4-6FT and a BCI female 5-7 FT, sometimes 8FT, but rarely bigger. True red tails are significantly bigger. How much and often you feed has a big bearing on size, as does genetics to a lesser extent.

Very important you not overfeed. They will eat pretty much as often as you feed, but they can die young if overfed.

We had a whole discussion going about this on my thread about Behira https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...host-First-BCI

I think it starts on page 2.

There are a few Boa people on here and all seem happy to help if you have question.

Good luck with your beautiful boy!

Yup, Yup and Yup. Also add, while BCC do for the most part get bigger than BCI, it takes them a much longer time to get there. Gina, my suriname will be 2 years old this coming August and she is about 2 feet long and eating adult mice. At 2 years old, she might be up to weaned rats but I'm nit betting on it lol. Heck, even Rango who will be 2 years old this March is still on adult mice and almost 3 feet and Louie my BCL will be 2 years old this July and he too is on adult mice and closing in on 3 feet. Slow wins the show with boas and generally any snake. Some though get bratty when not fed(I'm looking at you Caesar), so those guys you need to feed a little more.