Locality boas for beginners?

[WrongPython]

... and they don't tend to go off food just because you look at them cross-eyed from the next room.

Ha! Yeah, the "Princess and the Pea"-ness of some ball pythons is a reason why I'm considering an alternate first snake. I would like to keep one at some point, but there's something to be said about starting out with a snake with a slightly stronger feeding response.

On the topic of Mexican boas: Tarahumeras have been on and off my list. They're gorgeous snakes (yours look great, chip07!) and definitely something I'd feel comfortable handling for decades to come. Part of me wonders if one would be "enough" snake, though, and whether I'd be wishing that I'd went with something larger a couple of years down the road. I've heard that the Tamaulipas boas get a bit longer with considerably more girth, so part of me is considering one of those. [The fact that Vin Russo just had a litter and visits by a nearby expo may also be a contributing factor ].

Does anyone here keep a Tamaulipas or otherwise know anything about them? It sounds like some breeders are only on F1 or F2, so I'm not sure they'd be as "tamed down" as some of the other Mexican localities.