Resuced Hog island boa and a few questions

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Originally Posted by Aaron_S

Incorrect. There are racks big enough for boas. Especially a boa that is stunted like this one, it will most likely not obtain average adult size.

imho no. Boas are not suited to racks, and even the Iris Christmas tree totes are too thin in width and too short in height to be proper boa enclosures.

Also, this boa is not stunted. 4'-5' is perfectly reasonable for a 3 year old boa, a boa doesn't have to reach 6' by its 3rd birthday to not be stunted. Even a year older and it still would be a good size for its age, if a bit small if it's 4' and not 5'.

(It could be underfed and underweight, but it's not stunted at all.)

Also, why no larger than a 4'x2'? If OP wants to offer something larger they can. I put my boa in his 6'x2'x3' when he was 5'-5.5', he did fine in it. I had my 3.5' ball python in one of equal dimensions, he went into it with feeding problems and within a few months he began eating. Before I was kicked out, then I got to start all over again. :/

If you're buying into the "snakes stress out in big enclosures" myth it's 100% not true, it's open spaces not big enclosures that stress them out.