Behira - 2016 Female Ivory Ghost - First BCI

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I met B&N Reptiles and the female sunglow BCI that produced the baby sunglows they were selling at the Manchester NH Reptile Expo today (6-24-18).

She was beautiful and docile and predictable. They were kind enough to let me hold her for a few minutes. She is 16 pounds and about 6 1/2 - 7FT or so. Basically the size Behira will be when full grown (give or take).

I haven't really discussed it, and it's not a huge issue, but I was a little intimidated about how big Behira is going to get. My biggest snake to date is Shayna my 1,600 gram female Albino Spider BP.

Other than BP's, I have kept corn snakes in the past. Hardly intimidating at 3-5 feet and 1-1.5 pounds.

I wanted a BCI for many reasons, but I had originally wanted a male BCI because of size. However, Katie and I fell in love with Behira and I liked the challenge of a female; go big or go home!

After holding this girl, I am totally cool about Behira now. Behira will be a big, beautiful, gentle, giant, just like this girl. Docile and easy to manage. Not a one hander, but easy to drape over my shoulders and redirect when necessary, etc.

I am glad I went to the show and met this big momma and now have complete peace of mind about Behira. Totally worth going to the show just for that! However, also so some very cool stuff, but being full up on animals right now, was disciplined and brought home nothing!

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I've sort of taken the same approach in that I'm trying to get a full understanding on how big these snakes are going to get. While the BOA in the picture is absolutely stunning, it's a little more then I want to take on...especially the girth. Can I assume this is a normal size for a BCI adult? Or are males considerably smaller? I think I'm partial to the size that Behira is now (at least from the pictures you've been posting).