• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

First Beardie!!!! Any Ideas

P

Pythonbreeder99

New member
Joined
Oct 25, 2009
Messages
997
Reaction score
36
Points
0
Location
Lafayette, Indiana
Alright so I got my first beardie the other day, well my second beardie but I had the first one about 8 years ago when I was 12 so that doesn't count. I got her from Petsmart and have no lineage or anything but she looked vastely different than any other beardies there. Instead of brown and dark brown shes citrus green and red. Based on a google image search I believe shes female but I'm not positive. Let me know what you guys think of her. I'm no beardie expert and only know a handful of morphs off the top of my head and she doesn't fit any. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Oh and sorry for the crappy cell pics I lost the cord to my $200 camera :angry:

Cody
 

Attachments

  • Bearded Dragon.jpg
    Bearded Dragon.jpg
    124.3 KB · Views: 243
  • Bearded Dragon1.jpg
    Bearded Dragon1.jpg
    134.2 KB · Views: 264
She's cute. :) What do you want to know about them? I've owned them for over 7 years, they're neat creatures!
 
Hey Brandi, Thanks!! She is a looker, and I know all the basics like they need UVA/UVB, a place to climb, they eat crickets, mealworms, and some greens and that there is a ton of color mutations like ball pythons. I now have 17 ball pythons and 1 bearded dragon lol but she is very cool!!
 
Don't feed mealworms, it will impact them at that young of an age. Feed greens like collard, mustard, turnip, please don't feed her lettuce.

She is a looker, for sure. She'll have some pretty coloring as she gets older.

UVB is a must, I recommend the Repti-Sun 10.0 UVB Bulb (Florescent, not coil). You can use a regular household bulb (not the coil bulbs) for heat. That's all I do for mine.
 
Brandi, I'm assuming roaches or crickets would be fine to feed? I'm considering purchasing a couple of dragons this summer to keep at the university I teach at. The students up here have almost no experience with reptiles or amphibians and I'm hoping to teach a herpetology class next fall. I haven't done much research yet but do intend to purchase a book shortly. Any references that you would recommend?
 
Roaches are AWESOME to feed. Crickets are good, but roaches are awesome. I raised my boy I have now on roaches and he loved them. He refuses crickets now and will eat superworms (beardies 16" or longer). Hornworms, and silkworms are also good things to feed them. But Roaches are great!
 
Mistyck said:
Don't feed mealworms, it will impact them at that young of an age. Feed greens like collard, mustard, turnip, please don't feed her lettuce.

She is a looker, for sure. She'll have some pretty coloring as she gets older.

UVB is a must, I recommend the Repti-Sun 10.0 UVB Bulb (Florescent, not coil). You can use a regular household bulb (not the coil bulbs) for heat. That's all I do for mine.
Click to expand...

I won't feed mealworms for a while, and I have the Exo-Terra 5.0 bulb right now (coil). And I thought lettuce was okay? If not I'll make a run to the grocery store, lettuce was the only thing I had in the house so I gave her a little bit. I made sure it wasn't Iceberg because I heard that was bad for them. And do they need light heat? Because I have a strip of heat tape on the backside of her cage right now running at about 95 degrees.
 
Coil bulbs are not good for their eyes and that bulb has little to no UVB output. Lettuce has no nutritional value to it and will give her the runs. The greens i wrote are really the ones you want to stick with.

Yes they need a light heat, that's how they digest things. The UVB is just there to help them grow. The heat strip isn't good for her, as she can't feel heat from beneath her. Really I'd just put a regular household bulb in there for her and turn off the heat strip.
 
Another thing, make sure to give her a bath about 3-4 times a week. She'll probably freak out in the beginning but she'll grow to love it. Make it just warm enough to feel the warmth on your inner wrist, and make it deep enough to go up to her chest. You can keep your hand under her if you want to make sure she feels secure, or you can put a washcloth in there for grip. She will probably defecate in the bath, so don't be surprised about that.

You can use newspaper, paper towels or even slate tile for her substrate, please don't use loose substrate, as she can ingest it and become impacted.

Um...Trying to think of what else...When I think of something I'll be back. LOL
 
She's in the bath now. Here are some more, better pics of her. Any idea of what morph? I'm convinced shes not normal lol.
 

Attachments

  • 114.jpg
    114.jpg
    121.5 KB · Views: 138
  • 115.jpg
    115.jpg
    137.6 KB · Views: 147
  • 118.jpg
    118.jpg
    100.3 KB · Views: 143
She doesn't need heat or UVB at night, so long as the temps don't get below 64*, they need sleep, and no heat during the night. Put your lights on a 12 on, 12 off or 14 on, 10 off cycle.

It looks like she might be a citrus of some sort. Hard to say without knowing what the parents were. :)
 
does it have clear nails and does it have black eyes. If it has clear nails then its hypo and if it has black eyes its a translucent. Other than that it looks citrus pastel.
 
She does have clear nails, but brown eyes. And Brandi, yes everything is built just waiting on the damn pet store to get some aquarium sealant, the habitat is beardie proof but I doubt its cricket proof yet!
 
IMO she looks similar to the one in this picture (from bloodbankdragons.com) minus the leatherback. He says it's a hypo translucent leatherback so maybe a hypo translucent? I image searched hypo pastel citrus and she doesn't really look like any of the pics I saw.
 

Attachments

  • P1000738.jpg
    P1000738.jpg
    133.8 KB · Views: 129
Back
Top