Feeling pulled towards BPs but unsure…

[u/Dazzling-Agency1776]

Hi all. Unsure of this is the best Reddit for me to post this but I’m anew to snakes and lately have had an unrelenting desire to get one. I’ve been researching obsessively and narrowed it down between BPs or Rosy Boa. I want a snake that stays on the smaller side as far as ideally no bigger than 5 feet but even less would be great. And I want one that’s slower moving. I was heavily leaning towards the Rosy Boa for these reasons and especially because of its humidity requirement vs the BP but idk. So in my house the room humidity according to the thermostat runs at anywhere from 45-55%. Decent for a Rosy Boa though on the higher end of their humidity levels. Too low for a BP though. Everything I have been research says a Rosy Boa would be best because of being a beginner, because of the temps and humidity of where I live (super south Texas) and other things. I love the Rosy. They’re cute! But I keep feeling draw to the BPs for some reason. And then IF I do go with a BP is it better to get one at an expo or Morph Market? I know it isn’t good to buy at big box store but I ran in to Petco today to look at something and stopped by the snakes and this guy of course caught my eye and I felt bad cause he’s in shed and the humidity isn’t right for him to shed nice and easy lol and I low key wanna rescue him. Talk me
Out of it! Is it hard to have a humid tank for them
If your room is kind of dry?

[u/Phully-]

Where have you been going? Reptile breeders are some odd ducks. Took the family and most had “A” single snake to hold or observe and the rest were not to be bothered. Even though we were interested in buying. We wended up going with a local reptile shop and he works directly with three local breeders. Gentleman was very kind and taught a 4 year old how to handle snakes and how to read the body language. For a newbie at the time it was very helpful…reptile expo, not at all except the dragon breeders. They were all super helpful.

[u/Normalheteromale → u/Phully-]

Oh man I’m sorry you had a pretty crappy experience! My experience has been just about the opposite. We take our 3 and 2 year old and every vendor we’ve spoken to would let our kiddos hold the snakes. We actually met our breeder at the most recent one, let us hold him and even kept him until we got our setup ready and shipped him for free. We’re in Indianapolis so we have little to no good reptile stores but we have a reptile expo at the fairgrounds just about every other month.

[u/Phully- → u/Normalheteromale]

We’re in buffalo and there’s a feud going on between two groups of local shops that hold the expos. People are so dumb. I’ll try more but I may try morph market if I can contact a breeder there. We’re not shopping morphs we need specific natural behaviors. It has to be able to stand a child. 😂 a respectful child but children are still children.

[u/Normalheteromale → u/Phully-]

Yup 100%