Gosh, those blanket photos of Noodle are SO cute. I just love the color of his eyes - reminds me of grapefruit, or a lighter variety of pomegranate seed. And that's incredible that he started shedding while you were holding him in your hands! Such a flawless shed, too. I hope that my snakes will let me witness something like that someday.
You are correct, I did cave and get a boa recently! Rather sooner than I thought I would, but I have zero regrets, haha. He's absolutely marvelous, and it's really fun to see how different he is from my BPs, both physically and in terms of personality. His first full set of photos is over in the boa section of the forum - https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...ression-thread! - but below are a couple of them!
If you feel like boas would be a good fit for you if their adult size wasn't so prohibitive, then you might be interested in looking into the boa localities that tend to stay smaller! Genesis, for example, is a Hypo Blood, and the Blood boas tend to be smaller because their origin is Central American. Supposedly, the males in particular are unlikely to ever exceed 4-5 feet, and they grow very slowly - much slower than ball pythons. If I recall correctly, Hog Island boas also max out quite comparatively small.
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