They said he is an a**hole.

[ChileanTaco]

My Taco was when I got him very much chocolate brown, see attached photos.
(Btw: was surprised, as the dragons I saw there before had a lighter and more orange coloration. He was the last of that batch, no idea how his siblings looked. Went into that store asking when the next bearded dragon babies arrive, was told that they have actually one left and reserved him to pick up a week later. Wasn't looking for a specific color or pattern but was really surprised to get one looking like that.)
His coloration changed completely within 1 year, to usually orange with blue bars, or can be uniformly light orange, or can be "typical standard beardie" color when he hadn't basked yet that day. Last image shows when he's uniformly orange.

 

[AHBD]

Yes, they can change color + pattern drastically as they grow.

 

[NickAVD]

I would also be very interested to see this baby!

 

[xp29]

I was curious when you say chocolate, was it just a brown dragon ? I think I had some chocolate swirl colored beardies.

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Sorta yes. He is in shed now so it doesn't show up as well. In person he is gorgeous.

 

[xp29]

Sorta yes. He is in shed now so it doesn't show up as well. In person he is gorgeous.

He wouldn't turn so I could get a picture of his eye, and I didn't want too scare him again. So I just snapped these two and left him alone.

 

[xp29]

My Taco was when I got him very much chocolate brown, see attached photos.
(Btw: was surprised, as the dragons I saw there before had a lighter and more orange coloration. He was the last of that batch, no idea how his siblings looked. Went into that store asking when the next bearded dragon babies arrive, was told that they have actually one left and reserved him to pick up a week later. Wasn't looking for a specific color or pattern but was really surprised to get one looking like that.)
His coloration changed completely within 1 year, to usually orange with blue bars, or can be uniformly light orange, or can be "typical standard beardie" color when he hadn't basked yet that day. Last image shows when he's uniformly orange.

I've always thought he is a pretty beardie

 

[xp29]

Personally I really like standard/normal beardies. Give me a standard Dunner and I'm all in.

 

[ChileanTaco]

Personally I really like standard/normal beardies. Give me a standard Dunner and I'm all in.

I'm always wondering whether - despite of not having such bright colors as still all the pigments are present - the color range an individual can exhibit is larger in standard beardies? I suspect yes, exactly because all the pigments are still there.
I personally love watching how dragons change their color, including to blend in with their environment. taco does this a lot, but IMHO the most extreme case I saw here was a dragon mimicking cholla:

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I'd be tempted to try that with Taco (I don't have cholla anymore as i had to give it away - like many natural things, and minerals including fossils too - when moving to Chile as the import, at least private import, is not allowed and they check thoroughly here.)

 

[NickAVD]

Sorta yes. He is in shed now so it doesn't show up as well. In person he is gorgeous.

Beautiful baby! He looks so calm. He was probably really scared before he met you.

 

[xp29]

I'm always wondering whether - despite of not having such bright colors as still all the pigments are present - the color range an individual can exhibit is larger in standard beardies? I suspect yes, exactly because all the pigments are still there.
I personally love watching how dragons change their color, including to blend in with their environment. taco does this a lot, but IMHO the most extreme case I saw here was a dragon mimicking cholla:

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www.beardeddragon.org

I'd be tempted to try that with Taco (I don't have cholla anymore as i had to give it away - like many natural things, and minerals including fossils too - when moving to Chile as the import, at least private import, is not allowed and they check thoroughly here.)

That sux, Cholla is awesome. It actually grows naturally on my ranch.

 

[xp29]

Beautiful baby! He looks so calm. He was probably really scared before he met you.

In the picture that shows his tail, look at that pattern. Thats why I mistook him for a Dunner.
In person he is amazing.
I don't think Christina is going to get on board though. He scared her.

 

[ChileanTaco]

That sux, Cholla is awesome. It actually grows naturally on my ranch.

I had a lot of pieces while living in the US. I really love the structure, how it feels and looks. Used it also in a hermit crab enclosure.
Specifically, what is not allowed bringing here is any kind of bark, or raw wood. Minerals if it's not jewelry is also tricky. So you can bring here a normal wooden chair, but not a piece of cholla or artwork made from it. (Also in pet stores I only found local types of wood, where all the US pet stores seemed to me to be full of cholla.) Same with the minerals, necklace with small (coin-sized) polished ammonite slice was okay, normal fossil collection was no-no. I had some nice ammonites, trilobites and such. (Everything was obtained legally, and partially from museum stores.) Piece of iron looking quite convincingly like a meteorite but not being one (was just from soldering found on an old railway), I intended to use it to show students what can be mistaken for a meteorite, also didn't went through.
On the contrary, with similar things coming from Europe to the US was not a problem.
The thing with the wood and bark and generally raw plant material is because of possible pests; the thing with all types of "things from the nature" including those minerals and again plant material is because they are very much in seeing this as a country's heritage which can neither be exported from here nor imported into here. So if e.g. I might buy me some seashells or minerals on a vacation abroad, even if it's the "little explorer" kids' gift package, that can't go in as it's seen as the heritage of that other country.

 

[xp29]

I had a lot of pieces while living in the US. I really love the structure, how it feels and looks. Used it also in a hermit crab enclosure.
Specifically, what is not allowed bringing here is any kind of bark, or raw wood. Minerals if it's not jewelry is also tricky. So you can bring here a normal wooden chair, but not a piece of cholla or artwork made from it. (Also in pet stores I only found local types of wood, where all the US pet stores seemed to me to be full of cholla.) Same with the minerals, necklace with small (coin-sized) polished ammonite slice was okay, normal fossil collection was no-no. I had some nice ammonites, trilobites and such. (Everything was obtained legally, and partially from museum stores.) Piece of iron looking quite convincingly like a meteorite but not being one (was just from soldering), I intended to use it to show students what can be mistaken for a meteorite, also didn't went through.
On the contrary, with similar things coming from Europe to the US was not a problem.
The thing with the wood and bark and generally raw plant material is because of possible pests; the thing with all types of "things from the nature" including those minerals and again plant material is because they are very much in seeing this as a country's heritage which can neither be exported from here nor imported into here. So if e.g. I might buy me some seashells or minerals on a vacation abroad, even if it's the "little explorer" kids' gift package, that can't go in as it's seen as the heritage of that other country.

Different cultures can have wildly different ways of looking at things like that.
Personally I have a huge collection of minerals and fossils. Ammonites, trilobites, fossils fish, ect.
I have one Ammonite I found while out rock hounding for Septatian in Utah. There isn't enough army's on the planet to make me give that one up lol. (It's pearlized and agatized) I almost didn't pick it up, it was getting dark and it looked like a cow pie. As I walked by I passed it up but something nagged me. Then it occured to me a cow pie wouldn't be half buried in the dirt. Sure enough it was the prize of my collection laying there and I almost walked right by it.

 

[ChileanTaco]

Different cultures can have wildly different ways of looking at things like that.
Personally I have a huge collection of minerals and fossils. Ammonites, trilobites, fossils fish, ect.

I also had. Now, knowing that I could not take it with me when moving away, or could not bring it into if buying abroad, am not buying such things anymore. Despite I like them, and I think having them at home also is a great thing. (I personally can understand the "heritage" thing with things that are really rare/ unique, and better should be left to science, maybe shown in a museum (stereotypical: the fossil of a pregnant dinosaur). But rather common things, or what's sold as educational material for kids, I think that's something good to have at home, also to spark interest.)

I started collecting minerals including fossils as a kid, always saving up pocket money for when there will be an outing to a natural science museum, either with parents or with school. Rock hunting, also finding something just randomly while hunting, also a lot. Always looking around at flea markets.
Also, as a kid I had a wide collection of things found in nature. Feathers, shells, but also things like bones, teeth, skulls, dried dead insects, even kept wings of dead birds. I personally had never hurt or killed an animal for such (also not catching butterflies to (kill and) dry them, personally I just don't want), but if the animal was already dead, I collected such things. Not morbid IMHO but I'm just very much interested in biology, and "you can only protect what you know" is something I value very much. And IMHO such things can also make humble, like the squirrel skull with much too long front teeth I had once.

I have one Ammonite I found while out rock hounding for Septatian in Utah.

That's awesome, wow! I had many nice things I found on my own (plus the ones I bought), but nothing comparing to that one!

 

[xp29]

I also had. Now, knowing that I could not take it with me when moving away, or could not bring it into if buying abroad, am not buying such things anymore. Despite I like them, and I think having them at home also is a great thing. (I personally can understand the "heritage" thing with things that are really rare/ unique, and better should be left to science, maybe shown in a museum (stereotypical: the fossil of a pregnant dinosaur). But rather common things, or what's sold as educational material for kids, I think that's something good to have at home, also to spark interest.)

I started collecting minerals including fossils as a kid, always saving up pocket money for when there will be an outing to a natural science museum, either with parents or with school. Rock hunting, also finding something just randomly while hunting, also a lot. Always looking around at flea markets.
Also, as a kid I had a wide collection of things found in nature. Feathers, shells, but also things like bones, teeth, skulls, dried dead insects, even kept wings of dead birds. I personally had never hurt or killed an animal for such (also not catching butterflies to (kill and) dry them, personally I just don't want), but if the animal was already dead, I collected such things. Not morbid IMHO but I'm just very much interested in biology, and "you can only protect what you know" is something I value very much. And IMHO such things can also make humble, like the squirrel skull with much too long front teeth I had once.


That's awesome, wow! I had many nice things I found on my own (plus the ones I bought), but nothing comparing to that one!

Rock hounding/hunting pays you 3 times.
1) A chance/excuse to be out in nature.
2) Exercise and mental well-being
3) The excitement of finding something unique, pretty, collectable, and potentially millions of years old. A particular item no other human has ever seen/held.