Thoughts on Red Tail Boa's

[Derek1]

This is not for me. But my nephew is looking at getting a Boa and wants a Red Tail. Why a Red Tail over the others I'm not sure why. But I will talk to him more about it. This would be his first snake. I honestly don't know much about Boa's as I'm a Coludrid guy. Would this make a good first Boa and first snake for that matter? Anything special husbandry needs? Anything else that I need to know. Judging from a couple other threads about first Boa's. I may try to talk him into getting a Dumerils.

But if he is sold on the RT, I also want to educate myself on them just incase a year from now it didn't work out and I would have to take it.