Ed Clark
New member
After a long pleasant conversation with my buddy Bob Mailloux I thought I wound share a tidbit of early red dragon history.
In the early 1990's there were very few red dragons in the hobby, Bob picked a couple here and there.A good size shipment came in reportedly from the Frankfurt, Germany zoo. I could never be confirmed tho. Bob snapped them up and started producing what he called red/gold dragons. he had a vet by the name of Rick Abrahams that was able to buy 20 of these early reds. keep in mind Bob was the only person with red dragons. Rick produced a few but tired quickly breeding dragons. I got wind of what he had then tracked him down to his Vet office in Socal. those days we had no internet....at least nothing we knew of.
Around the same time period Bob was finding red dragons in pet shops with ticks on them, there was alot of talk they were imported directly from Australia but no import papers could be found.
Took a little bartering before I could get all that he had, these were sub adults and young adults. I was shocked when I opened that shipment up as ALL the dragons were missing body parts such as feet,legs and tails. that did not stop them from breeding I produced many hundreds of red babies from this group sending them everywhere. in the 1980's all we had was normals to work with I was holding back the very light colored normals with yellow or orange on their faces. it was fun breeding dragons in huge metal stock tanks listening to the scritch, scritch all day on those metal tanks.
Bob and I both on different coasts many miles apart were producing red babies trying to supply a massive demand for red dragons.
Bob is the mastermind of the red bearded dragon.
Here's an old pic of a clutch of my early reds.
In the early 1990's there were very few red dragons in the hobby, Bob picked a couple here and there.A good size shipment came in reportedly from the Frankfurt, Germany zoo. I could never be confirmed tho. Bob snapped them up and started producing what he called red/gold dragons. he had a vet by the name of Rick Abrahams that was able to buy 20 of these early reds. keep in mind Bob was the only person with red dragons. Rick produced a few but tired quickly breeding dragons. I got wind of what he had then tracked him down to his Vet office in Socal. those days we had no internet....at least nothing we knew of.
Around the same time period Bob was finding red dragons in pet shops with ticks on them, there was alot of talk they were imported directly from Australia but no import papers could be found.
Took a little bartering before I could get all that he had, these were sub adults and young adults. I was shocked when I opened that shipment up as ALL the dragons were missing body parts such as feet,legs and tails. that did not stop them from breeding I produced many hundreds of red babies from this group sending them everywhere. in the 1980's all we had was normals to work with I was holding back the very light colored normals with yellow or orange on their faces. it was fun breeding dragons in huge metal stock tanks listening to the scritch, scritch all day on those metal tanks.
Bob and I both on different coasts many miles apart were producing red babies trying to supply a massive demand for red dragons.
Bob is the mastermind of the red bearded dragon.
Here's an old pic of a clutch of my early reds.
All this drama has gotten me interested in dragons.
He didn't take into account that the "pupil" would soon become the "teacher."
