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I'm looking at buying a spiney tailed iguana from a guy and he emailed me a picture of it and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what kind of spiney tail it was. Thanks

Buy that one photo, thats a tough one, but it looks like a hemolopha by the heavy keeled tail whorls.

or a hybrid.

I saved the pic (as I do with any good Cteno pic) and it is titled "Hybridside". Good eye Mark!

This was a plot Bo and I worked up, we saw the forum was getting a little slow so we thought we could get some people thinking. Mark, damn you, the first post and we were done, then Jim catches the name in the URL. Anyway, that is one of my young conspicuosa X palearis males, he is the nicest little guy. Every day at feeding he jumps out and wants me to hand feed him, his color is pretty cool too, as you turn him in the sunlight his body color goes to a blue hue. I am hoping that he will grow to the conspicuosas size. If anyone was wondering, he was an accident, I have had the two adults together for years, only last year this happened, the female palearis just dropped the eggs in the dirt, luckily three of them hatched after incubating them. I think I have a 2.1. I wonder if they could produce offspring? Kevin

Cool rhino iguana picture. Where was it taken ?

John, isn't that you? If so, you were with me. That photo was taken on that little island in laguna Oviedo.

Just complimenting your choice of pictures, that was on Cayo De Iguanas, one of three islands that alledgedly had iguanas in the lagoon. It was a good thing that you were driving as your test driving skills probably kept us from getting stranded.

At second look, I thought that tail looked rather pale-melano-ish, but did't want to put may neck all the way out on a limb.

he looks cool! is it me or does his tail look like the tails found on uromastyx?
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Tristan
1.1 Blood Pythons (Rambo and Medussa)
1.2 Egyptian Uromastyx (Dog, Cleo, Slo Mo)
0.1 Suriname Red Tail Boas (Stoney)
1.0 Argentine Black and White Tegu (Roy)