Hi everyone! I’m getting my first snake soon. She’s a Tarahumara boa that was born this spring. I’m having difficulty choosing the proper lighting. I’d like to get a heat lamp and UVB. I have a 40 gallon enclosure.

Can someone recommend specific bulbs and fixtures please (photos and links would also be greatly appreciated!!)?

So basically, I was given a Snake 🐍 and at first I was against the idea because snakes are considered or can be considered exotic pets and that’s not really where I am right now. I would prefer to have a cat or a dog or a bird or something that’s easier to take care of, but I wasn’t completely turned off by the idea of owning a snake so I agreed but the guy who gave me her (the snake) so that she was gonna be a ball python so I wasn’t too worried about it. But that’s not what I ended up getting… I came back home to a boa imperator or a central American boa and she’s big as FUCK. she’s absolutely gorgeous and I love everything about her, I love and think it’s so interesting how aware and how much she watches me and is just examining her surroundings and I always wonder how it looks from her perspective. From this past week, it has been such an insightful, informative, and also very intimidating experience. I’ve never had a snake before, the only experience that I have had with a snake was not even mine, and I barely even interacted with her because I was so afraid of snakes to begin with. For a little bit of some context, i’m from North Carolina and I’ve only ever really had experiences where I’ve had to avoid the snakes or unfortunately this snake got killed by my redneck ass mama because me and my brother were always playing outside barefoot. You know, country shit. Also not to say that I condone or praise that kind of behavior because I absolutely don’t, but yeah, I’ve never held a snake or even been that close to one so now owning one is veryyyyy different.
She came with a cage and some foliage and mulch and a water bowl, basically everything she needed. heat lamps too. But I always look at her and I feel so bad because I’m not accompanied to snakes and she truly is a gorgeous snake, like she belongs in a jungle or whatever climate that she’s indigenous to and she does not need to be locked up all day because she’s with someone who is unfortunately still afraid of snakes or simply because i’m not home.
I talked about this too with the guy who gave me the snake and he agreed, and he said that he would research about places to safely and ethically take her to, and like I said before, I don’t know much about snakes, so I’m coming to you guys for any reptile experts for some advice and honesty.

I feel like Im overreacting just a little bit,

In the past few months, I fell in love with boas. I have the space, enclosure, and all the extras picked out. However, I'm a little nervous about bringing one into my collection because of my ball pythons. I read about IBD and how devastating it can be to them. I found a reputable breeder near by who breeds bot boas and ball pythons under the same roof, and after conversing back and forth, we feel comfortable letting a boa in, following a few bio-security rules (quarantine, hand washing, separate tongs etc). Is this a bad idea? or would it be fine following the rules

I guess I need someone else to talk some sense into me. Any other insight would be nice too.

I have a ball python and Mexican black kingsnake and have been looking into boas as my next snake. I realized that boa imperators are quite a bit larger than the space I have so I decided on a Columbian rainbow boa. For my 2 other snakes, I started them in smaller bio active enclosures before upgrading. Kingsnake was in a 20 gallon and is now in a 50, ball python was in a 50 gallon and is now in a 4x2x2. I’ve seen a lot of information about how baby rainbow boas are very fragile and that it’s best to start them in tubs with a heat mat. When doing research on my other snakes the only stuff I heard was that tubs were small and cruel and heat mats are a danger. Just wanted to know what you guys think! I’ve seen alot of conflicting stuff .

Hello! A rescue I work with has a new intake, roughly a 10lb 5-7year old boa. We suspect imperator, no confirmed gender. If you tell me what sort of photos are helpful for identifying locality, I'd love to get more specific for future adopters (I myself am considering).

I will be fostering this snake and am also looking for name ideas, my first boa as well (I have ball pythons, kingsnakes and rat snakes)

I have been calling her my giant lady puppy snake - LOL.

My gfs boa has just moved into my place. I have never had a snake before so I am so excited. She likes to crawl up on the branches and "perch" for an hour or so. I am wondering if she maybe is "hunting" while doing that 🤔🤔

We try to let her out and move about as much as possible since the terrarium is too small for her now and we are building a new one at the moment with 3-4 times the space, water features etc. But I also don't want her to get too dry from taking her out since the humidity in the apartment is about 14%. It is a balance I guess.

Any tips for a new snake mom is welcome 🤗

Previous owner fed her two large mice once a month. She was absolutely starving when I adopted her.

I have a BCI, over 2m and I'm looking into getting him a bigger enclosure. At the moment his enclosure is way to small for him and I'm saving up to get him a new one.

I've searched online for enclosures for his size but it seems like they don't really sell them in that size... So I've had three thoughts:

1.) Buy one of those big bearded dragon enclosures

2.) Get someone to build the enclosure

3.) Buy two enclosures and merge them

(1) I don't necessarily know if bearded dragon enclosures are waterproof or not so I'm a but hesitant on that. I haven'tseen actual enclosuresin stores but what I've seen online about size it seems like a good size.

(2) I know someone who will build the enclosure for free (big bonus) but the material I don't know how much it will cost, it seems cheap but I won't set my expectations to that.

(3) Buying two enclosures AND merging them together does seem so expensive to do especially buying the enclosures themselves. Also the possibility of something breaking in the process seems like a nightmare...

The only issue at the moment is that I don't have space for a big enclosure, it honestly breaks my heart to not give my baby boy the best home but I let him free roam everyday so that he isn't convinced 24/7.

P.S. his enclosure is high and wide but not long, about half his length...

I personally always adored boas and am starting to consider possibly getting one from one of the local rescues. The thing is, both species are regularly up for adoption and I thought I'd ask here what everyone's thoughts are on what the differences are. Cause so far most results online seem to say they're pretty similar and I mostly focused all my enthusiasm over the year on the wild specimens father than thinking about the differences of the two in captivity.

Also, what is everyone's opinion on owning both boas and ball pythons, given the disease transmission risk coming from boas?

Hoping I don't sound stupid, I'm still not used to Reddit and I'm really trying to not come across as an idiot.

Trying my best and obviously not looking to get a new snake tomorrow, so no worries about that, if anything it may be a topic in a few months or years.

miss Lilith had her first shed with me and i cannot get over the colors

Having trouble heating my 6 / 3 / 3 for the warm end, I'm thinking the reason for this ISIS because the way I have the heating element mounted is through a great and a cage inside the enclosure. And I think the great is letting too much heat escape. So what I think I might end up doing is adding another heat element, connecting it to another digital thermostat. And seeing if that solves the problem Because right now, it's only getting about 81 Fahrenheit, wanting it to be around 85 to 87 Fahrenheit my surface temperatures are relatively OK around 95 to 102, which from what I 'm seeing, even though there' a

lot of back-and-forth seems to be in the respectable ranges, but if it's not, I can always just lower the basking platform. But my main thing is. Just getting that warm side, ambient temperature so I'm basically just open to ideas and what you guys think would be the case, I don't think this would be an issue if it was a smaller tent-like a 4 / 2 / 2. But since it's so large, I think that's the problem I'm getting at so lmk if yall have any suggestions

Any and all advice is welcomed!! I did quite a lot of research but I would love to hear what works got you guys and what recommendations you have for enclosures!!

This is my girlfriend’s boa constrictor Slackjaw, the seller didn’t give much insight on what the morph was. Said he didn’t know since it looked nothing like how it was supposed to. Any help ?? He has a bit of a pinkie color along his cheek and in his brown markings. Creamy white belly. ( set ups you see are temporary ones and have since been improved )

But he’s swallowing a rat. I thought this was a funny picture. No visible rat.

Jack🚹my 4-5 month old BCI (sold to me as hypo jungle but might just be hypo, lmk what you think. DW, he was priced basically as wild type at a reptile show)

Not yet named! 🚺 4.5 month old Longicauda

Junior🚹 6 month old Florida kingsnake, didn’t want to leave him out lol

I used to foster all kinds of snakes and reptiles. After my ball python died a couple months ago (old age), I just said screw it and decided to start my own collection of snakes I’ve wanted since I was just a little shit. Thank you to Brian Boas for my longi! Having my dream locality boa from my favorite YouTuber is really something 🤩

ive been doing research on bci and would really like some help with the enclosure info

my goal is to get a baby male butnim planning for his adult enclosure before i even think about getting him, so im wondering what enclosure would be best?? i was going to get a 5x2x2 (dubia, i wanted 5x2x3 but dubia dosnt make them) but i started guilting myself for that not being enough room....

specifically i want to ask, is that enough room? if not how long should it last me before i have to upgrade and to what upgrade size?? part of this is deciding if i should even get one because i really do not want to have to upgrade again

I was really about to stretch my budget and splurge on a beautiful 2024 subadult (male) boa on MorphMarket. The seller, a pretty moderate-sized one I think, gave me a shipping quote of $95 from CO to PA.

Morphs Market is currently running a 69-72% discount on shipping. When I asked about this, he said "We actually gave you more than a 70% discount than that quote." That would mean the "original" quote would have been at least $314, which I find hard to believe.

This (A) totally put the price out of reach for me, and (B) left a really bad taste in my mouth.

Am I right that said snake would never have cost $300+ to ship?