Just for the Record: remreps is Jimmy "G" and he is currently 65 years of age. At least that is what he claims. I did get some skin scrapings from him that he left on the edge of a cage when he made a hasty retreat from a Monster Tail Hypo some time back. I sent those samples in to the Museum of Natural History in Chicago where they are soon to complete the Carbon-14 dating to verify is disputed age. The process used is accurate back to 60,000 years old so we should know something a bit more definitive soon.

It sounds you beat Jimmy "G", Tommy C to be the first one to own a Boa constrictor having gotten your first one at eight years of age in about 1956 if my math is correct.

Jimmy "G" is 65 years of age though, so I think may have everyone else beat on the straight old age contest.

The oldest Boa I own is a wild caught female Bolivian Boa that I obtained in 1991. She was about 6' long at that time. So I have had her for 18 years and she was probably at least 6 years old when I got her and more likely closer to ten.
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