He looks like perfectly normal Central to me in every way.Dragony":1xnn12ov said:Hi Kingofnobbys,
I promise I didn't know it was illegal, but he is very different from my other dragons in almost every way. Is it quite common for eastern a to be poached from Australia? <<< no it's not , but happens because there is a market for them and they attract $ from people who want something no one else has or can get. My understanding is it's focused on smaller monitors, geckos, and skinks (shingle backs, bluetongues, sandswimmers) and pythons , these are where the big $ are overseas.
Or could he be from old stock? Doubt it , for the reasons already given my me and others …. any Easterns that made it to the USA are long dead and their decendents genetics so highly diluted by breeding with centrals that they are indestinguishable from the stock of highly inbred centrals available in your country..
I do believe he is different from my other dragons. I have a good bit of experience with bearded dragons, and the fact that he is so different from any other I've had makes me believe he's at least part eastern.
VenusAndSaturn":23ccm16r said:He looks like a central to me as well... but I've also seen "Hybrids" online that were being sold and they looked like a central too. Most likely because the majority has way more central in them than eastern.
My easterns were all mega tame and just like more recent centrals.Dragony":1kioktfs said:I can't find the original picture of the mother, but she looked something like this, only her mouth was more yellow than this dragon's (and this dragon is supposedly an Eastern according to google), and she had a littttle bit more of a pattern on her back.
Unless the guy lied about what the dragon's mother looked like
<<< pretty easy to steal a photo from Google images (heck I've seen some of my photos of my pets showing up on Google images when I've been looking for other things....) or to copy from an Australian breeder's / keeper's photo of an Eastern. Unless you saw the dragon in person - I think it's highly likely you have been lied to and likely scammed.
, I guess this little guy is just a hybrid? I don't mind if he's a hybrid or not though - he's such a funny guy.
I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced different behaviors or anything in their barbatas also.
Drache613":26vy6njc said:Hello,
Even if he does have a bit of a mix in him it certainly isn't your fault for purchasing him.
Unfortunately, illegal pet trade occurs & not much is done about it.
I think he does have a little more scaling than some of the average centrals/vitticeps.
Can you get some more closeups of his tail, since you mentioned there were some of
the horizontal rows/scaling down the tail area?
If there is barbata present, it isn't dominant but may have given a few subtle changes.
Tracie
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