Awesome looking boa.
Congratulations.
I noticed in one post you talked about using tape to make a hide. Unfortunately tape can get stuck to snakes and cause injuries, so I usually recommend avoiding any tape inside of an enclosure for a snake.
Telling a BCC from a BCI can be a bit difficult, since patterns can be highly variable, and locality crosses happen in captivity. Usually the BCI saddles look like hour glasses and BCI saddles have little widows peaks. This is not a 100% reliable way to tell, but based on the shape of your snakes saddles, I would guess BCC. Don't worry too much about what your snake is, since for the average keeper it doesn't matter that much. It would only really be important if you wanted to breed the snake.
There is a lot of confusion regarding what is and is not a red tailed boa. Unfortunately red tailed boa is a much abused common name. It probably doesn't have any real meaning at this point, since the pet trade has marketed numerous subspecies and locality types under that same name.
Also, if your hands are getting dried out form to much sanitizing of your hands, you can cut back a bit. If your snake is healthy and husbandry is good, it is unlikely you will infect your snake with anything. A simple but thorough hand washing before and after handling is probably enough. I currently have 4 snakes so it is possible I could pass something from one snake to another. I usually wash my hands between snakes and in three decades of keeping snakes, have never had a problem. You only have one snake, and most diseases that effect people do not effect snakes and vice versa. Salmonella is one of the exceptions. There are others, but snakes are not a large source of Zoonosis in humans, so just being clean is usually enough.
Best of luck.
David
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