Even the smaller boa variants will want space to move. My vote would be for the boa if you have the space. I also think the fact they have live birth and the lack of pits is pretty cool. Personality can vary but in my experience they are a more active/ interactive snake. They have a lot of beautiful morphs which will probably be more expensive compared to a BP equivalent. Beyond a boa as well, the larger snakes go where they want as opposed to you controlling them. They certainly get larger but are a fun size, and for me the extent of the size poop I'd want to deal with. Have better feeding response, and are nippier in my experience as babies. They are fun to "handle" and will explore but they aren't an overly active snake.įor boas, they are obviously a larger snake. Pretty much if you think of it, its probably out there. But within hours one of them is missing under suspicious circumstances. Hired to carry out the tests is Jacob Rasmussen and his rough and ready crew of deconstruction engineers. Christine Hansen is charged with the task of testing an experimental cleaning fluid which could revolutionize the oil industry. They do have the most large ranging and beautiful patterns. An abandoned oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. These are animals after all.įor BP's they are a pretty lazy snake and all my albino variants - regular albino, spider albino, and lavender albino - only eat live mice. Thought about it at a hobbyist level, but frankly the bp market is blown out and God knows what happens to one's that don't sell. I think I've only owned boas for about 5, but might be closer to 7. I started with ball pythons and got up to around 10 before I got my first boa. Some people get boas because many are arboreal, and balls are not. You'll hear people say they bought a boa because of the head shape over a ball python, OR a bp because it has heat pits for infra-red. I didn't know about any small species of boa yet, once I did, I immediately went after the type of boa I own. There's no real difference overall in my experience with balls and boas, nothing that makes me choose one over the other. These boas have an incredible amount of genetic diversity!!! There's a more new locality however that has similar size but not the nippy attitude.Īre you going to breed? If so, I'd get a Dominican Island Red Mountain Boas, I almost bought some, not alot of people have them, and from a pair, you could potentially end up with about 8+ color and pattern morphs in the same batch of babies. Like Nics, those boas were sought after because they were smaller, but they are generally nippy. Same for boas- behavior is dictated by specimen of course, but also by locality to some extent. That's not true for all python species at all. BPs can be a bit more shy, ie less likely to strike even when hungry.