Morphs

[Erndogg]

Out of curiosity is there a web site dedicated to bearded dragon genetics like ball pythons have http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/ ????

The reason I asked was back in February, I took in two from a CL ad. I had some for years before, but I was coming back from school, and wanted to get a few again, and my fiance ended up falling in love with one that was labeled as a 1 year old "Citrus." Now from what I can figure out through Google, he is not a citrus. They are more yellow in color, where as the one I have is a nice orange color with a blueish-gray and yellow stripping with a nice yellow head with orange around his eyes. His tail is orange and has reddish-brown banding.

I am just trying to figure out just what he is, so I can start looking for a possible female I could get to pair up with him since my fiance told me that he needs a girlfriend since my ball python girls have a boyfriend now lol.

I do have one picture that captures his colors pretty accurately from when I first got him, but it will have to wait until I get home to post in about an hour. I am work right now (no wifi), with some down time, waiting for my replacement to get here to relieve me.

Any help would be awesome.

[Erndogg]

So here is the picture I was talking about I had him for about a week when this was taken.

[Dracoluna]

http://www.dragonmorphs.co.uk/morphs.php

That is the best I can find with pictures and good descriptions. Yours looks like a nice red dragon (they are line/selective bred and not so much a true morph like we think of in snakes) but definitely not a citrus. Without knowing his lineage, it would be hard to say if he's het for hypo or trans and even then, with breeding beardies, unless you have import lines or something with great genetics, babies don't go for a lot. Just something to consider if you're looking at getting into breeding them. Living-wise, even if you got a female, it would be a separate enclosure just like with your bp's unless it was breeding time.

[Erndogg]

Thanks for the info. It's something we have talked about, but more have been just trying to figure out what he is. I showed his picture to a couple breeders at a local reptile show, and they all talked about how nice he looked, and how they had just the girl for him and then tried to sell me a 500+ female.

[Dracoluna]

Ouch... Yeah, that's more for a quick sale and even then, for $500, it better be a proven breeder with either trans or hypo showing. Without knowing what he carries, that would only create hets for sure and if you were lucky, you could get trans or hypo babies. If you get serious about breeding him though, I'd recommend finding a good dragon breeder in your area, talk to them, get to know them, and pick their brain about it BEFORE getting any girl. That way you have a support system and some honest feedback on where to go with breeding instead of someone seeing a sale.