Boa experts help me decide if I should get a BCI.

[Malum Argenteum]

This is mostly about the business of breeding, not about boas which I know roughly nothing about. They seem cool.

I got into breeding pretty organically -- just adding animals and projects that attracted me for whatever reason, like it seems you are doing. It has gotten pretty big: I have about 50 breeders -- geckos and snakes -- and a handful of dart frog vivariums, and at least that many hatchlings/neonates hanging around most of the year (often a lot more, and that's where it turns into a chore).

That's all doable for me, but I've been very ready to drop projects when they aren't making me happy. Blood pythons were fun until I bred them; I just didn't care for the hatchlings at all, and selling them was miserable. Leopard geckos eat too much and too often and overnighting bugs all winter to the frozen north gets way too expensive, so I cut that back a lot. And so on.

So if there is something you want to keep and breed (and there's a legitimate market for the offspring), I say go for it. Just be ready to shift gears when you need to. And do a lot of that 'talking yourself out of it' -- I'm forever researching species that I think I might like to keep, and most of them get nixed pretty early on because I want to make sure I'm not going to put more into a species then I'll get out of it (speaking in terms of personal reward here, not so much financially).

Be aware (perhaps you are, but not everyone is) that breeding for selling now basically requires starting a legitimate business, as starting in 2022 all payment processors (PayPal, Square, etc) are required to report annual transactions of over $600 to the IRS. So unless you want to pay income taxes on 100% of your sales you'll need to file business taxes so you can deduct expenses, and many (most? all?) states require sales tax to be paid on these sorts of transactions so you'll need a state sellers' permit.

What Bogertophis says about quality time is really wise. I'd point out that there are a couple kinds of quality time with herps. One is taking them out and watching movies with them, but another is focusing on making sure everything in your overall operation is up to snuff -- housing and husbandry, but also long term goals with breeding, and taking time with the animals to track them to make decisions about which offspring are holdbacks, and similar sorts of 'administrative' stuff that actually brings a keeper closer to their animals in a different way than hands-on interaction. I'm currently (for a couple years now, I guess) working on thinning down my number of projects so I can move animals into larger/better enclosures. That whole ongoing project is a kind of quality engagement, too. Different, but not necessarily less rewarding. Anyway, with a room full of diverse animals, there is always one that wants to sit and read a book with you.