Colombian good for a beginner?

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Originally Posted by Snakess2014

Hi,

I think dominican red mountain boas are great snake for beginners. The snakes are very docile and they use musking as a defense mechanism and hardly will strike. They get 5-6' max, so its a good full size.

Columbians i used to work with too and they're also good snakes. I do think they're more aggressive than the DRMB's (dominican red mountain boas) and they have a potential chance getting rather large; i believe the avg is 6-8' but up to 10-12' (mostly females). I attached a photo from google.

I had my DRMB breeder female down at the SD reptile show last year, and one of the guys from PetKingdom came over and was handling her. She started acting strange, rubbing her nose up against his hand, opened her mouth twice and then closed her mouth. I mentioned that it was strange that she had never acted that way, and he mentioned he had just handled some rats. I never handle my snakes after feeding though. Its just nice to know even after handling rats, the DRMB female still wont strike.

Hope its some what helpful

That's a BCC in your photo. Not many Colombian BCI are going to get that big, the biggest Colombian I have ever seen/heard of, male or female, was 9', maybe a few inches over that. BCC are going to be bigger on average, and have the potential to get 13'.

Originally Posted by trailblazer295

Do you have a picture of him? I'm trying to get an idea how big they are full grown.

Yeah, I've got a few. But you're going to have to keep in mind I'm 5'1", so the pictures where I'm holding him, he isn't as big as he seems.

This is him in his enclosure, before I replaced his hides. The measurements are 6'x2'x3' (LxWxH).


His head in my hand.