![]() ![]() The neonate boa might be cheaper at your local shop in the short term, but in the long run you'll eventually have to be prepared to bust out a solid 800+ Euros for a decent enclosure, compared to a 300-500 Euros for a smaller snake's enclosure. Unless what you truly actually want is a 1.8 to 2.5 meter snake and have the money and space available to afford them, there's many other better options that are much more reasonable for a pet snake. It'll be much easier to deal with any difficulties that arise if you're truly invested in your animal, vs one you only sorta kinda care about.Īlso, I personally advise beginners against boa constrictors solely due to their size. I honestly advise you to get a reasonable species you truly are interested in instead of trying to get the "easiest" one. The four largest species of snakes-Indian python, Northern African python, reticulated python, and green anaconda-were selected, as well as similar and closely. Vestigial legs are a clue that snakes descended from lizards. They are also intriguing evidence of the evolutionary histories of species. Such features, either useless or poorly suited to performing specific tasks, are described as vestigial. 113 Aplopeltura boa ( Blunt - headed Tree- snake ), 184 Apostolepis. Pythons and boa constrictors have tiny hind leg bones buried in muscles toward their tail ends. Hognoses just have more attitude than a ball python and are mildly venomous, but if you pick a calm individual, know how to read snake body language and regularly handle it you shouldn't really have any problems. Antaresia perthensis ( Pigmy Python ), 163 Antaresia stimsoni ( Stimson's Python ). Both can be picky eaters, hognose husbandry is simpler than a ball python's and hogs require less space especially if you get a male. ![]() I would personally class hognoses and ball pythons as the same caliber of "beginner-to-intermediate". It is a huge deal if someone swindles a beginner by selling them a "dwarf" retic that ends up being a regular 6 meter retic they were completely unprepared for. Which family contains the biggest depends on whether you are measuring these reptiles. It's no big deal if someone swindles a beginner by selling them a normal ball python advertised as "orange dream" or whatever. The largest snakes in the world belong to the python and boa families. For example, there are no locality boa breeders in my country at all, so if I wanted one I'd have to import one from say Germany or the UK- which would simply be not be reasonable if I was new to the hobby and just wanted a first pet snake.Īnd that's not including the fact that people do lie to make sales bc "dwarf" and "super dwarf" locality giants are becoming more and more popular and starry eyed beginners are easy to deceive. Unfortunately when most people say "boa", they usually specifically mean the most popular subspecies, Boa constrictor imperator, so it has to be treated as such.Īvailability and price also play a huge part in whether a snake is good for beginners or not- and most beginners like OP are not willing to put it in the time, effort and several hundred grand to find a good locality boa breeder. ![]()
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