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Hello everybody.
First I would like to say, thank you all for making this such a great place of information and good advice!
I´ve been reading the forum for a while, but this is my first post.
To the point: I have a male cribo, bought as a CB melanurus, but now I´m starting to suspect that it´s actually an unicolor, or an intergrade. He´s about three years old (and yes, a little bit fat...) and the tail is getting lighter by the shed.
Please tell me what you think.

Best regards
Jesper Arnö
Sweden

Sorry ´bout the huge sizes

By the way Jesper,

Congratulations on that acquisition! Not certain how common unicolor are over there, but on this side of the pond, they are something of a rarity.

Jeff

Looks like unicolor to me.>>
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I second your opinion OH, certainly looks like the four I currently have..

Jeff

Thank you both.
From the pictures I have seen he does look like an unicolor,and I´m glad you agree.
I guess it might still be an intergrade though, as unicolor are rare in Europe as well.
/Jesper

Definitely appears to be D. c unicolor, as D. c melanurus x D. c unicolor integrates tend to demonstrate a brown to mahogany colored posterior.
If you could post a good ventral photo, this would help as well, but I certainly believe you have a true D. c unicolor, as the specimen posted appears quite young, a yearling perhaps?, and the coloration should continue to lighten for several years.

Jeff

I guess there's no way to tell 100% that it's not an integrade, but that looks like as much like a pure Uni as any I've ever seen.

Even pure unicolors have a slightly darker tail than the rest of the dorsal.

Perhaps the importer thought it was a melanurus because it came in as a juvie ? Juvinile unicolors (especially newborns) have a very dark shed that lightens with each shed.

All I can say is GORGEOUS !
(regardless of lineage)

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Thank you all for your help!
Seems like I´m the proud owner of a unicolor then.
Best regards
Jesper