Orange beard

[ChileanTaco]

Taco becoming more and more orange when showing bright colors - that's him today, and where the scales are more brown-grey like some tree bark there is always bright yellow and orange between them.

 

[xp29]

Taco becoming more and more orange when showing bright colors - that's him today, and where the scales are more brown-grey like some tree bark there is always bright yellow and orange between them.

Very handsome

 

[ChileanTaco]

Also still well behaved I don't mind beardie puberty, if he needs to "go full crazy", that's fine - but no signs of that. He's currently more active (running), and I see since a while he rubs sperm plugs onto a specific stone he always poops next to. (He always uses this place for anything "bathroom".)

I'm happy that I was able to take this photo against a white background (he likes sitting on a hand in these awkward beardie positions, but currently he's more the explorer and maybe sits there half a minute, then climbs around on me, climbs down, runs...). Macros maybe next time because he wanted to go back in.

 

[ChileanTaco]

A few more photos here.

Btw.: I always find it looking awkward how dragons move their hind legs to the front to hold on to something. Looks hilarious and uncomfortable from a human perspective.
Last time, with somebody over Skype "Why are you holding him so weird? Looks like he has difficulties sitting here". Indeed looks like this, but... (Of course good that they asked me!)

 

[Chris.]

Taco is just beautiful!!

 

[ChileanTaco]

I still find the color-changing funny Last time when somebody recognized over Skype the color looking different from the last time they saw him (No shedding in between, just the difference regarding temperature and mood.)

 

[Chris.]

I still find the color-changing funny Last time when somebody recognized over Skype the color looking different from the last time they saw him (No shedding in between, just the difference regarding temperature and mood.)

It is amazing how they can almost seem like different animals at times

 

[NickAVD]

I agree with Chris, Taco is a very handsome buddy.

 

[NickAVD]

I always find it looking awkward how dragons move their hind legs to the front to hold on to something. Looks hilarious and uncomfortable from a human perspective.

I always had fun watching this too.

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

He is quite stunning! They definitely start developing some great colors as they get older!

Tracie

 

[ChileanTaco]

@Drache613
I find all kind of bearded dragon or generally reptile colors stunning, in their own way (that's my honest opinion, not just some kind of politeness). I like very much the colors and structures of stones, of other natural things (the beardie skin like in my picture 4 always reminds me of sea urchin shells, when the sea urchin spikes came off), I like fractal patterns, and that's found in all of them and I like that a looot
I remember that Taco changed color a lot during the almost one year since he's here (I picked him up August 21 last year, saw him the first time a week before). He was chocolate brown (like a very dark chocolate, like the 99% chocolate I love) with some grey stripes on his back as his "typical color", not a trace of orange, but overall a quite "cold" coloration - a color I found unexpected (I visited the reptile store a few times before, also for asking whether they have beardies, and those babies I saw had a lighter color), I had expected more some ochre colors or orangeish, but totally fine, also a fun pattern I was not knowing, by that time, how much they can change color over time - a bit, okay, but that much?

@NickAVD
I love that face shape I've seen some have it (photos here, as well as a bearded dragon belonging to a person working in the reptile store here looks like that), and it seems to be related partially to age, partially to gender.
We don't have such curtains, but I would be sure mine would also try. Last weekend he tried getting up the bookshelf.

 

[Rocky2022]

A few more photos here.

Btw.: I always find it looking awkward how dragons move their hind legs to the front to hold on to something. Looks hilarious and uncomfortable from a human perspective.
Last time, with somebody over Skype "Why are you holding him so weird? Looks like he has difficulties sitting here". Indeed looks like this, but... (Of course good that they asked me!)

I had a conversation about this yesterday, I was asked in response....well how do you know their hind legs aren't their hands. Lol

I told them to walk on their hands and tell me if their feet are now hands.