Resuced Hog island boa and a few questions

[bigsnakegirl785]

Originally Posted by trailblazer295

Good looking boa for sure, someone can correct me but looks like a salmon. Hard to tell scale for size but looks like he should on medium rats if not large rats every 3-4 weeks.

Salmon is a line of hypo, you cannot tell by looking at them if they are salmon, you have to have papers that they come directly from Rich Ihle's line. Without the papers, it can only be called hypo.

Definitely not medium rats, way way too small of a boa. Medium rats are best suited for 5'-6' boas, and larges for 6'+.

[trailblazer295]

Originally Posted by bigsnakegirl785

Salmon is a line of hypo, you cannot tell by looking at them if they are salmon, you have to have papers that they come directly from Rich Ihle's line. Without the papers, it can only be called hypo.

Definitely not medium rats, way way too small of a boa. Medium rats are best suited for 5'-6' boas, and larges for 6'+.

Thanks for the clarification on salmon vs hypo.


We don't know this boas size right now. Without a scale for reference it could be 5ft already at 3 years old as previously stated. Some people have big hands while others have very small hands.

[bigsnakegirl785]

Originally Posted by trailblazer295

Thanks for the clarification on salmon vs hypo.


We don't know this boas size right now. Without a scale for reference it could be 5ft already at 3 years old as previously stated. Some people have big hands while others have very small hands.

They have their hand right next to the snake, at the snake's level, it is at most 4' long, even if the person had big hands there's no way the snake is 5'+ long unless their hands were literally the size of a dinner plate, or bigger.

Also the snake is in a 55 gallon tank. That's 4'x1'.