I have to be honest, I don’t feel the difference in weight to much myself but getting her in her enclosure when she doesn’t want to is sometimes a hussle.
We sometimes joke she wants to become a retic concidering the speed she grows. She is strong so when she is adventures for my 11 year old son it is really sometimes difficult to control her and she is only a little over one and a half years old. she’s is nice and square so it’s is not that being overweight explained the quick growth. Sometimes a small rat, sometimes medium ( 50 to 120 gram)sometimes only a xl mouse but never more than one. I do feed her every week but not a big prey. In my care 650 gram in only three months. I measured her last week and she was already 1950 gram and 150 cm ( about 5 foot). She was by then already 135 cm ( going to 4,5 foot) ànd only 1300gram. I bought her from him about end oktober last year.
She was at that time half a year and only about 80 cm. I have mine from a friend who got her about one year ago. If you can not go beyond 7 foot than I advise against a female common boa. She would strike at shadows passing by and once when attempting to get her back in her enclosure she literally pulled the snake hook off of him and bent it 90°… Don’t buy cheap snake hooks… Shes calmed down a lot since and you get a good 20 mins of happy handling now and again but she is still a threat at times and I would not handle her while on my own. Luckily we have never been bitten by her but that is not out of her want of trying.
He got her from some relative of his and she had been left un-handled for a decent amount of time and without a heat source for months, but really heavily fed. My brother in law a while back got a ~5 year old female and doesn’t quite have the same temperament. They are 110% completely different animals to what I thought they were going to be. Personally, the hardest part of keeping them is getting them back in the enclosure when they aren’t ready they will happily spend a hour just slivering around and climbing the coffee table or wrapped around my arm while I clean up.
Mine are still babies in the grand scheme of it so I can’t really use them as a great example other than to say they are the easiest animals I’ve ever cared for, never skip a meal, shed all in one every time and are the nicest snakes to handle… But that’s just mine and I’ve had them since pretty much the day they could leave and handle them pretty much every night… And again, they are still no where near full grown.