When I plan a future project, I project it to take 3 years for female BCI and 2 years for male BCI to be able to breed. However, actual time frame is changed as I see how the boas grow and metabolize. I'd consider myself VERY moderate in my feedings. For instance, my only two '05s both male imperator I have just now eating rat pups-weanlings. My 5 month old female imperator is on hopper mice. All fed every 7 days, or less frequently.

I have one '04 female I am trying this year, with an '04 male. They were born in June of '04 and I feel they are ready. Neither was pushed, and both were started just as all my other boas were. Early on I actually changed the male to eating every 3 weeks, because I noticed his metabolism was so slow, the female was growing fast, so she was slowly moved up in prey size.
Meanwhile I have a Bolivian amarali female that was born in '03. She is over 3 years old, however I do not expect her to be of proper size until about 5 years old.
Likewise looking at my other '04 female imperators I have 3 that might be ready next year, and 2 that will probably be 4 years old before they are ready.

Typically it seems that once my males pass their second birthday, they are ready that season following their birthday. So males born in summer of '04 are ready now.

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