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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poec54" data-source="post: 38369" data-attributes="member: 3524"><p>+1.  The brown ones with a green carapace were the common form in the 1990's, called 'starburst baboon.'  The orange form was still scarce then, and the species wasn't known so it was called 'Usambara' for the mountain range in Tanzania.  I bred both back then.  I got out of the hobby for a few years, and now the brown ones are gone, and the orange form is everywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>