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I'm acquiring a pair of BCC from Bill Shenesky in Tennessee. He's not quite sure of the locality, and neither am I, although I do know that they are very nice looking animals.

Can someone help me out with these? They look very much Peruvian to me, but I know the locality breeders out there have a much better eye for this than I do. As for temperament and behavioral qualities, I'll be able to tell you after Tuesday. Thanks for looking!

Female:

Male:

At one time I had dedicated myself to tracking down locality specific BCC. But the more I get into them, the more "variety" I see. The imported Peruvians I used to see 10 years ago are quite a bit different than almost all of the cb/fb I'm seeing now. I tried to get opinions on particular boas just as you have, and its really had to tell a lot of these animals from the wc types, since in many cases cb's are either cross bred or color bred. Not many of us dedicate our colections to making an archetypical locality. Be that as it may, there is a lot of variety in the wild as well. In my opinion, a good Peruvian in a nut shell should have- a slate gray background with a yellow overtone, speckled body, black saddles that are well marked, a brick red tail, a long wide head with a strong head stripe, eye lashes and teardrops a definate plus, and roman type of sloping to the bridge of the nose.
Nice boas!
Matt Schubarth
Pet Nebula
2100 Stephens #116
Missoula, Montana 59801
406 541 9929

Beautiful example there, the descriptions match perfectly.
As you were saying that not many people keep the pure, definate wild look and don't cross locality or subspieces.
I am trying to get started on that, but I can't find 100% pure anything.

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