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iv been keeping snakes for almost nine months now, i have two ball pythons and a cornsnake.

do i have enough expierience for a red tail boa?

how big of an enclosure is the minimum?

would 72lx36dx18h be big enough or would i need 80lx28dx44h?
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my addiction:
2 ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (maizy

There isn't really a "level of experience" to get a Boa. I do not believe in the theory of getting a "beginer" snake.
Get the snake you WANT, be it a Boa, Python, or whatever. My first snake was a Burmese Python.

What you do need is information and education. Purchase a book on Boas and read it cover to cover. It will have all the info you need to raise a healthy Boa.

Good Luck,
Mark Blanchard
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Mark Blanchard
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Well...I have....(For all you Hednricks fans out there I couldnt resist.

In all honesty, keeping a BCI isnt much more difficult than keeping ball pythons, and in the case of wild caught ball pythons it is a LOT easier in my opinion. They will eventually need much larger quarters to be housed in, and larger prey items, and a diffrent temp gradient than ball pythons.

Its well worth it. . . .

Read as much as you can on the snake, set up its housing well in ADVANCE of getting the snake and interact and interface with as many breeders as you can of this particular snake. I would not recommend BCC(Surinams, Guyanans, Trinidads etc) to some one just starting out with boas. Also, make sure you have a source of food that is either close and local or far away and RELIABLE so that you can get the appropriate sized rodents for each stage of the boas growth.

Best of luck and if you have any questions, feel free to email me and Ill try and answer them. I answer emails on the same day they are sent.

Good luck

Fred Albury

Any particular reason you wouldn't recommend BCC for a first boa? I've heard that there can be temperament differences etc. but could you lay those out for us? Thanks.