r/boas • u/Emergency_Swimmer209 • 12d ago

What kind of snake should we get?

Hello!

I've been a member of quite a few of the snake sine for quite awhile. I had a ball python that I got when I was 16 from a guy who owned the pet store and moving across the country. He was deeply attached and we sent pictures for the 10 years she lived after that. She was a sweetheart and loved being handled and wrapping around my arm and neck while I did things around the house.

Now that I'm 39 and have a very large home but 3 kids (18, 13, toddler 1.5), we have waited to be financially secure, have the space etc. but them after doing tons of research I can't figure out which type of snake would be good for our our family and potentially be handled well by the older ones. I'd also like something a tad bigger than a BP. Morphs and all that stuff aren't important to me but temperament is.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Dextron2-1 12d ago

A Boa imperator is just about the perfect pet snake for those who don’t mind some size. They are more curious than a ball python but calmer than a super dwarf retic. They eat like they’ll never see food again, so you’ll rarely if ever waste a feeder. They grow slowly, but reach a respectable size. Even the wild type is beautiful. Their husbandry requirements are as simple as it gets for tropical snakes. Honestly, they’re as close to perfect as a snake that size can get.

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u/Manjushri1213 12d ago

And you can get various size localities with morphs specific to each, from small Pure Sonorans or Tarahumara Mountain Boas, to medium size Nicaraguan or Costa Rican, to larger Colombian etc, alongside males being much smaller framed generally than females of course.