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I was looking at Mike E's. peruvian and that is one big yearling,however I have seen some MONSTER suri's.SO this led me to ponder what BCC (local)WAS THE BIGGEST? thank you.

... from a german construction worker who used to work in Brazil for half a year that he saw some huge brazilian boa c. c. in a zoo.

I showed him my Peruvian female who is more than 10 ft. in length and 43 pounds in weight. He told me that he has seen much bigger boa c. c. in this brazilian zoo.

He estimated the length of about 14 ft.

Since my impression was that he is not a boaster and looking at the development of one of my brazilian females I believe him.
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Louis Porras has documented in an article that he personally unpacked a shipment from Peru twenty odd years ago that contained two 15 footers and a 16 footer. These are the largest I have heard about with credibility. I also know a guy who had two massive captive Colombians over 100 lbs but I do not know how long they were. The 18-18.5 footer from Trinidad was a Green Anaconda. Yes a boa but not a BC. I did a bit of my own research on this when I was in Trinidad in 93'. Hans Boos showed me all the old newspaper clippings saved over the years and there was a picture of it and he said that was the one where the story came from. It was clearly a Green that had been shot(for no reason of course). I will say I talked to people in different areas on the island and asked them to put sticks down or draw lines in the dirt to show the largest boa constrictor, not anaconda, that they have seen. One Indian hunter and another woman living in the rural areas, both showed markings that paced out at approx 13 ft. This seemed reasonable to me. I will say something else about true Trinidads, I grabbed the pick of the litter baby from a wild caught Trinidad that dropped there. When it was shipped back to me it was already several months old and had only been maintenance fed because the guy did not have a lot of mice. Despite getting a slow start, it still today, after at least 100 boas I have had, was the fastest grower I have seen, and most of mine have been fast growers. She was eating 2lb rabbets 6 months later. I will have to dig out a picture and scan it as it was before my digital camera days. I traded her shortly thereafter.

.. (at least from what I've seen) is Peru redtails.

They are born very large (as much as 1/2 again as big as a Suriname), are aggressive feeders and develop rapidly. Unlike most other Boa, 10' peru boas are not rare and can attain that length in a comparatively short period of time. I had a female, age 11 years that was just under 13 feet. And they rarely have the problems of regurgitation and so-on frequently seen in the Suriname/Guyana redtails so are apparently more tolerant of frequent feeding. Those of the Iquitos region may be the best candidates for a monster redtail. Of course you don't have to grow them so big..

When I was in Suriname there were several 10-11 foot redtails at the Paramaribo zoo and at a local dealer, we even wrestled a 12 foot male.. none had the impressive muscular mass of a big Peru snake.

Gus

biggest ive seen in person was a 12 foot guyana import that was the devil itself and i decided it was wayyyyy tooo dangerous of an animal to have around so i didnt purchase it from the importer( my son was small at the time and i thought this was best).. but she was huge and fat for an import !! and on tv (you guys are gonna laugh but) steve irwin the crocadile hunter pulled out two boa imperators they looked like (from colombia) that i believe he said were 14 feet each.. and yes they looked incredibly huge on tv.
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