ALL BLACK/PURPLE BEARDED DRAGON HELP!! UPDATED!!

[Chico1234]

what kind of bearded dragon is this???

 

[Chico1234]

I wanna buy it. but idk what kind it is and idk if its healthy for it to be that color

 

[Chico1234]

heres another pic. shes kinda purple color in the light

 

[ILoveLemmonade]

Well she looks very upset in some of the pictures. Could it be that she is darkened up because of stress? Has the dragon always been this color?

 

[ILoveLemmonade]

I found this. It looks very stressed and that enclosure it's in is tiny! I'll be honest in my opinion, it does not look in very good health. Just my opinion, and I am no expert.

 

[Chico1234]

thats a temporary tank. she was in a 100 gallon with proper temps and light. shes real friendly. they have had her for 3 years. got her as a rescue. shes always been that color

 

[ILoveLemmonade]

thats a temporary tank. she was in a 100 gallon with proper temps and light. shes real friendly. they have had her for 3 years. got her as a rescue. shes always been that color

Well then it looks like you have a beauty of a beardie! Don't know exactly what it is, but if everything looks good to you, it's just an odd color.

 

[Chico1234]

i went ahead and got her. Im hoping shes not stressed and un healthy but shes been this way for 3 years soo im hopful. with me at least i know she will be comfortable and cared for

 

[ILoveLemmonade]

i went ahead and got her. Im hoping shes not stressed and un healthy but shes been this way for 3 years soo im hopful. with me at least i know she will be comfortable and cared for

Hey, if it turns out she is just stressed, you will be able to give her a good home and hopefully calm her down. If there is some sort of illness, you will be able to treat her well and give her love!!

 

[Chico1234]

i went ahead and got her. Im hoping shes not stressed and un healthy but shes been this way for 3 years soo im hopful. with me at least i know she will be comfortable and cared for

Hey, if it turns out she is just stressed, you will be able to give her a good home and hopefully calm her down. If there is some sort of illness, you will be able to treat her well and give her love!!

thats what i was thinking

 

[Tonja]

She looks thin and dehydrated to me. I have never seen a beardie that color before. I have heard that a breeder was trying to develop a black morph but cant remember who! I am going to research this. Shes pretty,

 

[Chico1234]

She looks thin and dehydrated to me. I have never seen a beardie that color before. I have heard that a breeder was trying to develop a black morph but cant remember who! I am going to research this. Shes pretty,

im picking her up tomorrow. hopfully get her back to how she needs to be. on here in dragon info it says blacks do exist but are hard to find. Maybe she is a black.....or maybe shes just unhealthy. We will see. Let me know if you find any info on it

 

[Tonja]

The only thing so far I have found is the eastern bearded dragon or the pogona barbata but I don't think yours is an eastern but still looking.

 

[Tonja]

Black Morphs
Truth is we haven’t seen any black morphs being offered as of now. Scientifically they would be hypermelanistic, and these dragons would have an excessive amount of dark pigments leading to a very dark appearance overall. We hope to one day see such a dragon be bred with regularity, but to start there would have to be a few dark dragons brought together to work with. For those of who you say, “But wait, I’ve seen pictures of all black adult bearded dragons before!” to which we would reply, “Correct you are, but with almost certain positivity we can assure you those images were of wild bearded dragons from Australia, and more specifically Eastern Bearded Dragons, a very close cousin of the central bearded dragons, which is what virtually all bearded dragons in domestication are.” With that said, even if it wasn’t a biological faux pas to cross breed 2 different dragon genotypes, it is illegal to export any bearded dragon from Australia now, making sourcing such a dragon nearly impossible. With no known truly dark dragons gene pools in domestic breeding existence, this dragon becoming a regularly available morph may be dependent on a bit of luck.
http://beardeddragonsource.com/info-center/about-breed-types/

Now this is not to say your dragon is a black morph, it may be totally stressed, or even ill. A vet would be better to tell you whats going on with him. But this is what I found on the black morph

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

I thought I would weigh in on this thread.

As far as a black dragon, the only black dragon is the Pogona Barbata as it is the natural pigmentation of that dragon. The scaling of it is different as well. They are only in Australia.
There are a couple of breeders in the US trying to develop a black dragon. It would be a Pogona Vitticeps with manipulated genes & inbreeding to develop those types of morphs.
I am not sure where they are in that process.

The picture posted is a classic picture of a wild Pogona Barbata in Australia & I have that picture saved in my files of wild dragons as one of my favorites.


Tracie