I’ve been wanting to add a boa to my collection for a longgggg time, and I want to talk about what would be the best options for me personally.
I am a pretty small person (5’2, female, skinny little thing lol) so I knew that I wanted to get a male, since they generally stay smaller than their female counterparts. But I also know there are smaller localities as well. Which ones tend to stay on the smaller side?
I’m not the most out of shape, I can lift 50 pound feed bags if I need to, but I’d rather have a snake I don’t have to worry about handling.
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Check out the Solomon Island Ground Boa.
This little girl is a November 2024 and still very small. However these are probably way too small for you. I think the Nicaraguan boas stay on the small side but get larger than this one.
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Oh that is a cutie! The patterns are so pretty!
I haven’t seen a whole lot of those, so that might be something to think about.
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Crawl Cay, Cay Caulker, Tarahumara, all are good locality Boas to consider for smaller sized animals.
If something with mutations are the direction you’d like to go, any of the pure Boa Sigma mutations will stay on the smaller side (but not tiny, my 12+ year old female Boa Sigma is around 6’ ). Sticking with any of the central stuff will also keep things on the smaller end. I have a 5 year old Inca girl that’s barely over 4’