I'm curious to know. In everyones experience which of the bci's get the largest. It seems to me that the truely giant bci's are getting harder to come by. I've seen one in the past 5 or six years that was over ten foot with the girth to match. I remember seeing them closer to thirteen fifteen and twenty years ago. What happened. And in everyones opinion which of the bcis get the largest?
Steve Beamer
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Bci size, subspecies, locality . Would appreciate everyones input.
primevalbeauty
Jan 20, 2005 01:23 PM
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primevalbeauty
Jan 20, 2005 01:40 PM
Does anyone have any truely large boas if so please post pics. And incase anyones interested the pic is one of my female Bolivians about six or seven months ago.
M n R-Reptile
Jan 20, 2005 07:25 PM
I do not know about 20 footers, But I do know of alot of 13 footers and a few 15 footers. Impressive, but old.
I think the more south eastern you go, the bigger.
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primevalbeauty
Jan 20, 2005 10:37 PM
I'm sorry that should have read "closer to 13, fifteen to twenty years ago"
Although a boa close to twenty feet long would be spectacular I've never seen one that large.LOL
bigdnutz
Jan 21, 2005 10:39 AM
It seems to me that there is not much of a need for such large boas and so people don't breed for that trait. With a boa that big you have to consider housing, feeding and handling. When a 8,9 or 10 footer will produce just as many babies, why go big?
I personally love to see them get to be huge. It's really quite an accomplishment to have a long lived, healthy, huge boa. Like was said, they are not common.
Rich
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primevalbeauty
Jan 21, 2005 11:22 AM
It's not so much that you'd breed the larger ones thereby producing more. I'm just wondering if all of the recent downsizing and dwarf boas and morphs arent collectively reducing the number of truely impressive boas. It would be a crying shame if the maximum length of these creatures in captivity was gradually shortened by all the selective breeding going on. I'm guilty of it myself to a degree. But I certainly wouldn't mind breeding the ugliest giants true if the end result was the magnificent boa with the size and girth of a good size adult burm.To me nothing beats seeing and holding a boa of that size especially as rare as they are becoming.They are truely impressive.The girl pictured is the second largest I've owned shes about two foot smaller than the other one but truely impressive none the less.(Thats a one gallon container and an eight foot neodesha)
