.....Randy, I would agree. Given the circumstances, I also recommend a year older female. Unless you really keep on your females by offering food every 3-4 days, it's hard to get a female up to a safe reproductive size in less than 2 years. Balls are long-lived snakes and they probably don't breed and produce eggs at less than 3 years in africa.



.....imports adults do come in still in surprisingly large #'s and acclimate slowly. Back in 1988 I obtained an import adult female Argentine boa (B. c. occidentalis). Argentines were the most in-demand boa at the time and for several years after. It took a lot of patience to acclimate her and she didn't produce babies until 1992 (33 babies, and they flew out the door at $1000/pr!).



.....most breeders use incubators so they can get the females back on feed.

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