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Okay, sorry, everyone. I'm still try to figure out the direction to go in as far as caging. I'm definitely not going any smaller than a CB70 for the balls.

With my boas, I've been leaning towards going bigger. I put a yearling 2.5 foot male motley het snow in a 4 x 2 x 1 high Boaphile and he LOVES it!

I was worried about him being intimidated by the size but it's quite the opposite. I swear, the little dude just LOUNGES. No hides, no nothing. When it's feeding time, he comes to the front and waits IMPATIENTLY to be fed. Then, right off the tongs like a beast!

I was thinking of possibly doing the same for my female ball pythons-giving each girl a 4 x 2 x 1 high Boaphile to herself. The heat I have on them covers half of the cage-it's the 22" x 22" option. Would that work or would it make them bad feeders by intimidating them?

I would probably still keep the males in cb70s.

Thanks again in advance, everybody!

Aaron
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I have any breeding size female balls in a 4x2x1 boaphile, but it's the split one, so the each have 2x2x1 to work with they seem to like it... Got 5 clutches outta 6 breeders this season!! I think all but the biggest balls would be happy with half a boaphile, my biggest female was near 3000g prelay and she was swimmin' in that cage
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06
0.2 h albino
07
0.1 dh snow
0.2 leticia
1.1 triple het
0.1 albino h snow
08
2.1 hypo hog
0.1 sunset
1.0 ghost
0.1 arabesque dh stripe alb
1.1 h type 2 anery
0.1 pastel motley
0.1 leticia
1.0 hypo ph bloody sharp
0.2 ph bloody sharp
1.0 h blood
0.1 sunglow poss super
1.2 anery h snow
0.2 albino h snow
1.1 50% guyana h albino
0.1 triple het
0.1 ghost h albino
1.0 jungle h anery ph albino
0.1 pastel het albino
09
1.1 dh blizzard
0.1 h albino
0.1 jungle h albino
1.0 motley h albino ph snow
1.0 albino h snow
1.0 anery h snow
1.1 hypo dh stripe albino
and 25 balls

Thank you so much for your response!

It sounds like a full 4 x 2 Boaphile may be overdoing it.

It also seems that even more important to factor in here is the personality difference between boas and pythons and not just the size difference. Sounds like the balls may be happier in smaller more enclosed spaces to make them feel secure.

I may just stick with the CB70s.

Thanks again!
Aaron
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