I hope no one takes this wrong but that animal if not whole peruvian is at least very much part, bci almost never have the long solid saddles, this is common however in peruvians and your animal has 2 very long "aberrant" looking saddles, however for peruvians this is common, also yellowish background color which is a peruvian trait as well and why i say if not full peruvian its great part peruvian. The fact is this animal darkened up with age, i dont believe it to be hypermelanstic, i believe it to be a "below average" looking peruvian if you consider the less the speckles to be the nicer look. I quite like this animals as it stands. I say this is a decent example of a peruvian that went dark and lost much of the redding on the tail blotches as well as it darkened. Here in the USA via selective breeding, the peruvians have been showing cleaner in terms of speckles and redder in terms of tail blotches. I believe if you went to peru and grabbed a wild animal it would look very much like yours and that is a good thing too. ive had issues stating my opinion with other memebers of the herp community, so let me state for the purpose of full disclosure, im in South Florida, imported many years from Guyana, Suriname and saw many peruvians brought in from others and have seen my share of animals fresh out of the box and feel confident saying this I am stating. I won 2.3 breeder sized peruvians and 1 is very similar to yours.

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