How big can he get?

[djcoreyd]

I am happy to see that other people have such an interest in the larger snake species. Mostly what you heard is right they max out between 21-22 ft. The longest recorded was 26-27 feet in some zoo long ago. If you look hard enough on the internet you will find a picture of one eating a deer.(Clearly deer was hand feed to it) My Female is actually smaller than my male of the same age. She is 10ft and he is 11.5ft, but she has more girth. I am going to send pic's, and some more info I hope you enjoy! Most people frown on us Berm keeper's, for they think that we don't know how to take care of them or something........I love my babies and I am sure you do too....

[Boakid]

People are so easily confused...no one was talking about you when thye said ankle biter, they were talking about my fellow fourteen year old.

[Reticsrule]

fellow 14 year old lol, nice

[Corran]

With snakes the females of most breeds are almost always bigger. Controlled feeding determines weather or not your snake will be huge, average or small for its type. I deal with reptiles that have been abused because my friend runs a rescue, and just last week she got in a 2 year old boa that was only being fed every 6 weeks. He was just under 4 ft long and barely 1 kg. Or you get those sick people who powerfeed their snakes and the snake dies at 5 years but reach full growth size or bigger in less than a year. So it really depends, to a certain degree you can control a snakes growth with feeding but being a berm hes still gonna be one of the bigger boyz in the house =D

[rrrrr]

Originally Posted by Corran

With snakes the females of most breeds are almost always bigger.

This is true for most large boids, but is not true for snakes in general. Generally, males are larger in large species, females are larger in smaller species, but even that depends heavily on breeding behavior. There's some good research on this if you google sexual size dimorphism in snakes.

[jjpython]

my male is 10 feet and a year and 3 months old and hes still growing, be sure you can properly take car of him when he get big we dont need another person making the hobby look bad

[boidboi]

Originally Posted by Corran

With snakes the females of most breeds are almost always bigger. Controlled feeding determines weather or not your snake will be huge, average or small for its type. I deal with reptiles that have been abused because my friend runs a rescue, and just last week she got in a 2 year old boa that was only being fed every 6 weeks. He was just under 4 ft long and barely 1 kg. Or you get those sick people who powerfeed their snakes and the snake dies at 5 years but reach full growth size or bigger in less than a year. So it really depends, to a certain degree you can control a snakes growth with feeding but being a berm hes still gonna be one of the bigger boyz in the house =D

this is kinda off topic but goes with the snake abuse

i just got a granite corn that was keep in a 15 gallon tank until it was 4 years and its was power fed with out heat just to get him to breeding size
its pretty disgusting what some people will do just to make money off animals

happy to say he is in a 72 gallon bow front now and doing well

p.s. my friend also works with people that run a reptile resuce

[Corran]

yeah its really sad what some people will do. Ive been socializing a BP that she got in quite a few months ago, hes 10 years old and has scars on his head and neck from cigarett burns as well as numerous scars on the underside. If anything moves too fast withing like a 10 ft radius of him he jerks his head back, and after all that abuse he barely hisses when i take him out of his enclosure.

[Iggy&Roxi]

Corran,
Cigarette Burns, that's trully awful. I really don't get some of the people out there. Way to make up for other people's stupidity

[cristine]

:zi: I fell in love with him the second I saw him. He is handsome as well as healthy.

[burmese maniac]

This may give you an Idea of ther size. 17 and 14 feet after 4 years!!