What morph is my beardie ? (or normal)

[FrozenPrince]

Hello , as a new owner I really want to know if my current dragon has any morph in it or just a normal dragon ? I received him as a gift from a small breeder in my area. He said the dragon morph is "red" and he showed me the pictures of his parents. They both look something like this :

To be honest but I don't see any "red" on them ! Anyway here is my dragon (2 1/2 months old about 8-9 inches) and I hope you guys can help me out (I wonder if he will look like his parents when he is fully grown). Thanks.

 

[AHBD]

Your baby looks very much like a citrus tiger, and if the breeder's dragon's looked like the one in the pic [ Dragon's Den has what's called a " Sunburst" line of high yellow ] then your baby will prob. turn out pretty yellow/some reddish and nice tiger bars.

 

[mizzunderstood]

Beautiful baby, Congrats

 

[FrozenPrince]

Your baby looks very much like a citrus tiger, and if the breeder's dragon's looked like the one in the pic [ Dragon's Den has what's called a " Sunburst" line of high yellow ] then your baby will prob. turn out pretty yellow/some reddish and nice tiger bars.

I'm not so sure if my beardie may have some Citrus X Sandfire in it because he just finished his latest shed few days ago and I can see that he shows a very bright orange x yellow on his back and head. The breeder also said that he has a "red" morph so I guess there must be a reason behind it because the first time I saw him, he had a light red color on his back but the color changed after his second shed. Unfortunately, as I remembered none of his parents had any tiger bars on them so I don't know if the black bars on him will fade away as he grows.

 

[FrozenPrince]

Beautiful baby, Congrats

Thanks for the comment. I picked him out myself out of maybe 20-25 babies in the clutch. I have him for about 3 weeks now. He is a bit flighty but very fun to play with

 

[ReptileGuardian]

It's harder to tell when thy are babies I think cause most of them look the same. My male looked like that then once he was shedding more he finally shed into this beautiful colored beardie with blue so it will be interesting to see what he looks like

 

[ziggydoodles]

What a cute baby! It's really hard to tell how they'll look full-grown when they're babies...My girl Doodles started out this insane bright orange, and now that's she's about 21.5" long she's this really pale creamsicle color with lavender sidebars. It does look like your guy will end up with some tiger striping, though. The orange pattern on his back is super cute, too

I noticed in one of your pictures that you have sand on the bottom of your tank. Is this covering the entire floor?? I feel like I can see some tile in there too somewhere. I would recommend removing the sand ASAP, it's incredibly dangerous for baby beardies as it can cause an impaction if they eat any. If you're feeding in his tank it's pretty much guaranteed that he's ingesting some sand on the feeders, and babies tend to lick their surroundings. More suitable substrates would be paper towels (for short term), newspaper, reptile carpet, non-stick shelf liner, or stone tiles, basically anything that's NOT a loose substrate.

Sorry if that sounds rude or rant-ish or anything like that, I just have a friend who lost 2 babies within 1 month to impactions from living on sand ( ), and I don't like to think of anyone going through that kind of thing.

 

[FrozenPrince]

What a cute baby! It's really hard to tell how they'll look full-grown when they're babies...My girl Doodles started out this insane bright orange, and now that's she's about 21.5" long she's this really pale creamsicle color with lavender sidebars. It does look like your guy will end up with some tiger striping, though. The orange pattern on his back is super cute, too

I noticed in one of your pictures that you have sand on the bottom of your tank. Is this covering the entire floor?? I feel like I can see some tile in there too somewhere. I would recommend removing the sand ASAP, it's incredibly dangerous for baby beardies as it can cause an impaction if they eat any. If you're feeding in his tank it's pretty much guaranteed that he's ingesting some sand on the feeders, and babies tend to lick their surroundings. More suitable substrates would be paper towels (for short term), newspaper, reptile carpet, non-stick shelf liner, or stone tiles, basically anything that's NOT a loose substrate.

Sorry if that sounds rude or rant-ish or anything like that, I just have a friend who lost 2 babies within 1 month to impactions from living on sand ( ), and I don't like to think of anyone going through that kind of thing.

Hi, thanks for the advice. I completely understand that a lot of people may not like sand but as you said I do use tiles in my enclosure, it's 48w x 24d but for some reasons the 12x12 tile could not fix perfectly in there thats why I'm using some natural Zoo-Med repti sand to fill the rest of the space. I also feed him outside to prevent any risk of impaction + easy cleaning (sometimes I just throw some crickets in his enclosure because it's fun watching him running around ).

 

[Glitch]

Even though feeding him outside of the tank will help, as was said, babies do lick everything, even when you're not looking. Attica licks everything five times before she's certain of anything- every time she uses it xD If I stick my hand in to get her, she tastes me over and over just like, "Mom. Mom what is this. Is this a hand? No. Maybe? Okay, let's go." And when I put her back, her log, her plants, her food dish, she must go lick everything! It's funny to watch, but safe for her, because I don't use sand.

As long as you have sand in there, chances are you baby is ingesting some, and could potentially become impacted, leading to stress, worry, an expensive vet visit or possibly death.

A better alternative would to cut some non adhesive shelf liner to fill that area, or repti carpet.

 

[FrozenPrince]

Even though feeding him outside of the tank will help, as was said, babies do lick everything, even when you're not looking. Attica licks everything five times before she's certain of anything- every time she uses it xD If I stick my hand in to get her, she tastes me over and over just like, "Mom. Mom what is this. Is this a hand? No. Maybe? Okay, let's go." And when I put her back, her log, her plants, her food dish, she must go lick everything! It's funny to watch, but safe for her, because I don't use sand.

As long as you have sand in there, chances are you baby is ingesting some, and could potentially become impacted, leading to stress, worry, an expensive vet visit or possibly death.

A better alternative would to cut some non adhesive shelf liner to fill that area, or repti carpet.

Haha I agree with you. Licking everything could lead to many problems to be honest . I guess leaving a small area of sand for him to dig wouldn't be so bad !

 

[FrozenPrince]

Even though feeding him outside of the tank will help, as was said, babies do lick everything, even when you're not looking. Attica licks everything five times before she's certain of anything- every time she uses it xD If I stick my hand in to get her, she tastes me over and over just like, "Mom. Mom what is this. Is this a hand? No. Maybe? Okay, let's go." And when I put her back, her log, her plants, her food dish, she must go lick everything! It's funny to watch, but safe for her, because I don't use sand.

As long as you have sand in there, chances are you baby is ingesting some, and could potentially become impacted, leading to stress, worry, an expensive vet visit or possibly death.

A better alternative would to cut some non adhesive shelf liner to fill that area, or repti carpet.

Haha I agree with you. Licking everything could lead to many problems to be honest . I guess leaving a small area of sand for him to dig wouldn't be so bad !

 

[Glitch]

Actually, the best thing I could suggest would be maybe some strips of cloth in a small box for digging, or using alfalfa pellets in a box and not letting them get wet in the slightest! Safe, but the same effect.


I'm always so paranoid for my baby's health, I look into every option to avoid loose substrates or dangerous situations xD