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Beardie Sites

Honestly, my first Beardie purchase was a big let down in the "morph department." I'm used to the cut and dry genetics of cornsnakes (hell, name a multi homo morph and I'll tell you the break down!). I purchased a "Snow" from a large breeder (I saw the pictures posted on the website of PURE WHITE dragons) and received a NORMAL looking Dragon. I love Nova with all my heart and wouldn't let him go...But he is definitly NOT what I paid for (though I don't know that I could put a price on his wonderful personality!). The breeder did me right though and I'll be picking up a pair of Reds at a discounted price down at MARS this year.

I do have a DBN Orange Snow as well...She is to die for! I swear, she gets better and better every day!

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FYI - I just took that cricket out of his cage...Lazy butt that he is, he doesn't chase his crickets so I always find them at night roaming his cage...
 
You said you couldn't put a price on Nova because of the personality...

I've heard a lot about how beardies have very different and individual personalities. I've even heard people comparing them as a pet to a dog. Would you go that far?
 
Yes, Chris...Each and everyone has a different personality. I don't know that I'd compare to a dog though...I guess in some ways, yes.

Nova's a lazy butt, loves his greens and is happy to chill on the back of my sofa. Areweyn on the other hand is a little spit fire...She'll eat anything and is always on the move!
 
Do they make more of a pet type 'pet' than most herps?

Currently I just have Cornsnakes, but have had more variety in the past. I might.. well I hope to be getting beardies along with my corns when my girlfriend and I are living together. She likes animals almost as much as me (thank God lol). Anyway, are there any Bearded Dragon books that you would recommend to me?

Thanks, Chris.
 
Actually...What I would recommend is joining the beardeddragon.org community. Any and all information can be found there! Just go to the site and run a search!
 
Chris Steele said:
Do they make more of a pet type 'pet' than most herps?

Currently I just have Cornsnakes, but have had more variety in the past. I might.. well I hope to be getting beardies along with my corns when my girlfriend and I are living together. She likes animals almost as much as me (thank God lol). Anyway, are there any Bearded Dragon books that you would recommend to me?

Thanks, Chris.
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And if you really want a book I would recommend "General Care and Maintenance of Bearded Dragons" by Phillipe de Vosjoli and Robert Mailloux.
 
I agree with both of Matt's posts. Great book, and they do make a very good reptile pet. All of mine know to beg for roaches when i walk in the room, they run to the glass and start banging their heads on the glass.
 
oops... sorry, entered to early and there are 4 since clear nails and hypo are a different genes

1 is clear nails
2 is hypo (does not have to be clear nails)
3 is transleucents
4 is albino

another possible is red eyes

There are no leucistics, there are some marketed and called that, but they are not true leucistics.

Chris, if you wanted something to show you a lot of the different possible colors and variations, with true (non photoshop played with colors) try this site:
http://www.dachiu.com/gallery/pix.html which has alot on one page and I think about every color except albino.

Also, a friends says our dragons are like a cross between a 2 year old child and a puppy. I have been around reptiles and many other mammals by whole life as we owned a teaching farm... I have never seen another reptile that can bond with a human as much as a dragon can or be so willful. They have very distinct personalitites from each other and you see this even in a clutch.

Some have even learned to make a grunting or barking type sound to acknowledge their wants and "approval" of things.. or to tell on the other dragons when they think they are being bad. When we first told people this, some did not believe it so I have sent some of the dragons to other breeders who have heard them do it now.
 
I had forgotten about the Albinos! They would be a recessive mutation. Just none are available in the US.

I too agree that their are no true Luecs...That's why I said MARKETED Luecs...
 
Smoothies are new enough that until they are breed to normals or enough diversity to breed to another smoothie, we will not know if it is a recessive gene or not. Personally I suspect it may be the combo of two gene that is needed to create them. Clear nail hypos are two separate genes.
 
Chris,

I found this old post from 2 years ago about the dragons sounds and their personalities, thought you might like to read it

Zookie's is like the sound when you clear your throat. Sandy was the first Dragon that did it a few years ago when I play a water splash game she likes and she thinks it is "my turn" so would grunt. Last year Myst and Sherbert that swim in the pool with her stated doing it too. Sandy's is more of a bark sound, very deep in her throat, loud and she does it to get attention, when we talk to her and also when she is in the pool and the other girls do something she thinks they shouldn't.

Their kiddie pool is near one of the iguana's enclosure and Myst leap's out of the pool and onto the screen side, climbing up. Sandy would stomp around in the water and bark like crazy over and over until we make Myst get down and back in the pool. We are sure it is some form of communication as it seems so purposeful and they do appear to have learned it from each other. Zookie does it when he likes something we do, like giving him back his blanket (he has a passion for a blue blanket), letting him sit on the van dash or give him a sliver of granny smith apple..

We finally caught one on camera when she makes the throat motions they do when they make the sound. Here is Myst(the one Sandy use to tell on) grunting, she looks like an old lady with her dentures out! A few of the juvies can make the throat motions now, but no sound yet, so we think it is something that they have the ability to do only when fully grown
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Sandy is very bossy and we have her in an enclosure by herself, she's not abusive to the others, she just has to occupy all the "space", you know.... center of the basking area and legs shoved out in all four directions. She refuses to recognize other dragons are around, unless she can "tell" on them, otherwise she turns her head away from them and looks anywhere but at them.

The others use to just look at her dumbly when she grunted, but now two of them can do it also, not as loud, but certainly there.... they do it when Axe or I talk to them or back at Sandy when she is being bossy. I do think it was a learned behavior for those two.

With Sandy, who knows, maybe she just figured out how to be more bossy and get what she wants or attention (she does not think we are very bright), she is VERY willful, demanding things a certain way and stubborn. She NEVER forgets anything, especially if it is food related!!!! But I love her dearly, it's what makes her....her
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I still have Sandy and she continues to be a drama about everything, she had a RI once and learned that I rushed to her and gave her attention.. so naturally she gaps now just to get attention and when that does not work she has this fake dying routine she does. It worked so well once we took her to the vet and the vet was laughing so hard that an animal would fake something like that to get attention. Each time the vet and I talked and ignored her, Sandy would start gasping and "dying" as soon as we gave her attention, she was fine. Sherbert went to a breeder/friend in NY and Myst went to one in Arizona, both we get together with each year in Daytona at the breeders convention so I can still see them. Both new owners have verified they make these talking back to people sounds and it appears they have taught some of the other dragons in their new homes to do it now also.

I really think that all dragons have the ability to do it, they just need to learn how to do it. They certainly have some unique personalities and habits that are different from most reptiles
 
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