Dragon Feet

[Sylphie]

We went to our fav reptile shop called Varan (ROYAL VARAN - professional breeder - ROYAL VARAN (http://www.royalvaran.com/)) to check the genders of our baby snakes... And well, we really like the owners of this shop, and there was soo many amazing creatures that we ended with 2months old bearded dragon that my husband just fell in love with :)

For now only 2 not the best pics, she needs to settle down a little before making any good pics. In natural light her colors are really nice!

http://i.imgur.com/oo4nNdp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/J6odIBA.jpg

[Sylphie]

Some more pics of Dragon Feet:
http://i.imgur.com/5CUV9Ff.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NiikYqv.jpg

And we went to reptile expo today to adopt crested gecko (after mbd)... and ended with a boy for our girl, here is Bazyl:
http://i.imgur.com/ZrjhlyA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/PjYQjlM.jpg

I always though that Beardies are hard and too much work, and well, just one of the pets that are "more trouble than fun". Now I'm super glad that my man decided to buy the two of them as they are sooo amazing compared to all the other reptiles we're having! I would call them "rats of reptile world" with the upside of living a lot longer than rats, haha!

[SirHiss]

Wow! those are really nice dragons.

[tastybeets]

Heck yeah congrats on the new friends! I love beardies!

[Sylphie]

Thanks! They are really curious and smart, I start to wonder how smart are monitors if they are called the most "intelligent" lizards out there, haha! :D

I'm having a weird feeling that we'll not end with only these two...

[Albert Clark]

Great pick ups Sylphie! They do look fantastic.

[Sylphie]

Albert, thank you! After settling time I'll do pics in natural light as their colors are really cool (and hard to capture, haha, especially the Dragon Feet). Both are "normals", Bazyl is leatherback het. hypo citrus orange and Dragon Feet is an oddball from citrus x oddball pairing, so it's really cool how different they both looks.

[Sylphie]

Some good pics of both of them!

http://i.imgur.com/tneEdaa.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zvu4RIW.jpg

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[Sylphie]

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[Sylphie]

Oh God, they are growing sooo fast! Especially Dragon Feet, I never had a reptile growing as fast as her!

The pics on the left were taken when we bough them (around month ago), on the right were taken today.

http://i.imgur.com/jb5Zi6E.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XVyjzCy.jpg
(I'm sorry that the first pic is in box, I did not though about doing progress photos at the time...)

After that month I noticed that Dragon Feet is more calm, she's the type that will lay and be petted. I'm not sure if that's because she's more shy and afraid of wandering around, or just more lazy, haha!

Bazyl on the contrary will sit still for a few minutes but then he'll try to jump around to see everything. Again, not sure if he's afraid and tries to hide from me, or more courageous and just likes to see everything around.

[mysticmoon]

Beautiful dragons. I used to think dragons were difficult as well but they are actually quite rewarding. One summer my boyfriend went away and I agreed to keep his beardie for him and care for him while he was gone. The little butthole was super mean, he bit me so many times and at first I really hated him but after a couple months of patience and handling he was fine, and never bitten me since. Now he's nearly an adult :) they really do grow so fast

[Sylphie]

We went to reptile expo in Czech today, to deliver one pair of our E. schrenckii babies and to see what interesting we cna find there. We were mostly looking for citrus bearded dragon (or any other really super yellow dragon), but unfortunately nothing interesting in that department. When we decided to go home without buying anything I noticed a super small table that we missed before with hognose snake babies!!!! So I'm now having a small Drona baby that I'll post in another thread.

Then my husband decided that there was that one beardie baby that he really liked but since it wasn't yellow he did not mention it. And as I got a "impulse buy" on hognose we decided that he'll get that beardie :D

She's called Bazylia, couse she's white&grey, similiar to Bazyl, and when she's curious he's doing exactly the same pose. We guess she's just a normal, around month old (the breeder did speak only czech, and I'm not too good in it).
Here is a quick pic:

http://i.imgur.com/jwsu7qZ.jpg

[Ian of Oldham]

Love your dragons how old are they.


2 Royals 1 Corn 1 boa and now a new rescue 1 Carpet. and a mad Cat

[Sylphie]

Thank you! The first two were born both April this year, the new girl is around month old :)

[Sylphie]

[QUOTE=Sylphie;2472571]Oh I totally forgot to post updates here too! So, we're now having 3 dragons, Dragon Feet, Bazyl and small female Basil from Czech. They are a lot of fun and every single one of them has their own personality and routines that others do not (For example, Basil is always pooping only in her water bowl, she never once went outside of it, and then she's patiently waiting for me to change it every single day... or Dragon Feet loves to just sit on my lap, but when she needs to go to the loo she'll let me know everytime, the first time I didn't understand what she wanted and when I noticed the tail being lifted and went to put her back in her tank she grabbed onto me as if saying "you didn't want to put me back when I wanted so now you deserve all of it!" and she's totally afraid of any insects others than meal or superworms... or Bazyl is like a super bro hooligan, very independent, hates cuddling, always messing around, trying to eat his bowls instead of what's inside of them and loving his roaches). But, I won't pos all the stories about them as it would take a lot of space and time, so here's a lot of pics for you!


Basil:

http://i.imgur.com/MeEiTWm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/hRPZ8lc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/L6zQFwg.jpg


Bazyl:
http://i.imgur.com/1ashIlB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/I5eIUY6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2KdqW89.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TZR63rB.jpg

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[Sylphie]

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[Sylphie]

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Unfrotunately it's very dark and cloudy outside recently so all the pics are having that weird "brownish" tint to them... Believe me, they aren't all that brown/orange (both Bazyl and Basil are grey)! I hope there will be a sunny day soon so I could take a more realistic pics. But on the other hand I kind of like that steam-punk style on these.

http://i.imgur.com/jTIOEDY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/B24jFUQ.jpg


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[Sylphie]

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Pheeew, that's it, and believe me, I only added the best ones!

[Albert Clark]

They look very healthy Sylph! Congrats.

[Sylphie]

Thank you!

Today I did some pics of our boy as he shed two days ago too! He's getting soooo big, he was always smaller than Dragon Feet, but now is even bigger than her! And after his shed he developed some yellow on his sides, I'm super suprised by this. I mean he was sold to me as citrus orange leatherback het. hypo, but he was always grey with some orange markings on his sides, no yellow at all! I just guessed he didn't have all the "morphs" that I got in his description, but maybe I was wrong and he's just a late bloomer... But I'll watch it just in case it's something like yellow fungus (yeah, I'm always assuming the worst).

And no, he's not that skinny, he was just taking a weird pose every time I tried to take a pic.

http://i.imgur.com/tuoG90Z.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3cExozv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RP3l0Id.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rql4KMY.jpg

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And some pics of our big girl I taked yesterday:

http://i.imgur.com/nHj3JnN.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lsSfJsU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zQRpYBr.jpg

[Pareeeee]

Love them! Your enclosure looks nice too, could we you show us a picture of the whole thing?

I miss owning a beardie. Such great pets.

[Sylphie]

Pareee, sure! Excuse that the pics are so dark and with weird colors, but camera goes cazy with all the different lights there.

That's the one we made ourselves from old cabinet:
http://i.imgur.com/g43XC5P.jpg


The one that our big female is in is one of the old tanks we got with one of our snakes, so it's nothing to show around... but it's very hardy and she stil didn't manage to destroy the walls, haha! Also, it's just a temporary, we tried to move her into bigger tank but she refused to eat, so she's now back here.

http://i.imgur.com/pGv878L.jpg

[Albert Clark]

Wow! Looks like you really did quite a bit to make them comfortable. The enclosures are fascinating. Grats.

[Sylphie]

I'm amazed by our Bazyl. We bought him as Citrus Orange het. hypo, but I always thought that it was a little "farfetched"... it was okay since we liked his light grey color.
After his last shed he got a lot of yellow on his sides which was odd and I decided we will watch him closely for any signs of diseases. Two days ago he shed once again and well, I'm really stunned, he looks like totally different dragon! I know that they can become brighter/darker as they age but I never heard about a dragon that was grey for his whole life and then suddenly after 2 sheds became totally different.

Now I can't wait to see how he will look after few more sheds!

That was him when we bought him at 2 months old:
http://i.imgur.com/Lgbsakz.jpg

Here at around 5 months old:
http://i.imgur.com/uvq3OG6.jpg

Here two weeks ago when he developed some yellow on sides:
http://i.imgur.com/JgAZqfV.jpg


And pics from today, at around 7 months old:
http://i.imgur.com/5ETmYOM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rQxQncX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5wjAyoR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kiQYJ04.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/AEuV2bq.jpg

[Sylphie]

Well, it's too late to edit now, so I'll post it there (if mod/admin will read it please feel free to change that pic below with the third pic on the post above).

Pic from two weeks ago that has better colors and shows neatly his side:
http://i.imgur.com/gp5YYqb.jpg

[Sylphie]

While our Bazyl boy is growing like a weed and changing colors he's also starting to be more grown-up character wise. He's very independent, always trying to run around, but also calm enough to being held for a while (then he's trying to run off so much that my hands looks like typical cat mom hands). I can't take good pics of him recently since he decided that I will not dictate him how he needs to pose!

Dragon Feet on the contrary is a typical sweetheart that will just lie on me until she needs to go to the loo. She's like "you should put each of my feet the way you like because I don't know what you need" and then will stay in that position until I move her to another one. It's definitely easier to take a good pic and no scratches at all ; )

You really can not love how totally different each dragon is.

Bazyl being stubborn on his weird positions:
http://i.imgur.com/14qZlnm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TILo7Dp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FdavIp0.jpg

And Dragon Feet:
http://i.imgur.com/qVSFmDS.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tHvMaKW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nNjwtNM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MZi9jUc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FHmRuKA.jpg

[Albert Clark]

Amazing beardies!

[Sylphie]

Thank you! They were even on Reptile Report few times (last one yesterday)! :D

[Sylphie]

Time for pics of Basil! <3 I really love her red stripes on chins, it's perfect match for her white&grey colors.

http://i.imgur.com/JcLlbJe.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/96xHvFS.jpg

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[Sylphie]

Today was the first sunny day in this month so I decided to do December update pics of our dragons! The pics went fairly well considering that our building is between two others and it's always darker than outside. I really want spring already to take good, outdoor pics of our animals!


Bazyl is being yellower and yellower with each shed. Here he is a little dull as he still needs to shed some parts. It's funny how he looks totally different at each angle and light!
As always my hands are all scratched as he was trying to run off... I need to star wearing gloves when holding him, since it's not like he's aggressive, he just sits few minutes and then wants to wander about by himself couse he's a big man and I will not tell him what he can and can't do! He's the biggest dragon for now, growing like a weed.

http://i.imgur.com/jkSOeYR.jpg

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[Sylphie]

Dragon Feet is the sweetest one as always, she stopped growing as fast recently. We finally teached her that roaches are nothing scary and she will eat them when they are in her bug bowl (if they wander in her cage she will pretend she can't see them).

http://i.imgur.com/IKD1Eii.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Qnfhigs.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nPnlNjy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bJ2ly66.jpg

[Sylphie]

Basil as always taked her weird pose that makes her super fat... She's a little round but nowhere near as much as on the pics. She's also normally a lot lighter but she doesn't like being held too much and is always darker from the stress. I start to wonder if she may be a bearded&rankin's mix since she grows a little, but is still pretty small for a 6 months old beardie.

http://i.imgur.com/KRrmgUV.jpg

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[Sylphie]

I did some update pics of our girls today as it's a nice, sunny day! Still need to take update of our boy too, but since he scratches me a lot I really don't like handling him recently... Any tips what to do with their nails? They have some stone slates in their tanks but it doesn't help too much...

Also I wanted a tegu soo much, but with two new dogs and a pony (we're buying house in the village and the seller can't take the animals with him so they'll stay with us) plus all our animals we really won't have enough money + space to feed such a big lizard... so I guess we'll stay with beardies and maybe some other small lizards. Any tips what other species are as friendly as beardies?


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[EL Ziggy]

Your beardies are so cute Sylphie.

[Tsubaki]

Good looking beards! You could try looking into blue tongued skinks.. They're a similar size and usually easy to handle, but very different from bearded dragons still.

[MartinD]

Beautiful beardies, I started with geckos and beardies, before going over to snakes

[Sylphie]

Thanks Ziggy, I love how each of them has totally different personality and behaviors!

Tsubaki, for now blue tongue skinks are recommended to me most, so I guess I need to look into them, haha!

MartinD, thank you! For me it was snakes first but I now know that lizards are a lot closer to my heart than snakes... but I still love snakes too, so I'll still have both of them, haha!

[uhhlise_nacole]

Like you had mentioned earlier in the thread, I myself at first was not pressed to attempt Beardies. they seemed interesting, just not my reptilian cup of tea. An elderly couple found us to see if we would be willing to care for the 2 adults they had since one required medication and a lot of TLC. They quickly became my favorite animals to watch. They do have such unique personalities and so mischievous! always up to something humorous. Yours have beautiful colors!

[Sylphie]

A little late "January" update on Bazyl! He was in shed, so that's why his monthly update is now moved two weeks later. He's soo more yellow now that I can't really describe how amazed I am. Just look at the pics and see the difference!


And yes, I know that the gloves look kinda funny with beardie, but I have really delicate skin and he has really shaaarp nails, so when he starts to scratch ("I'm a big man, you can't hold me in place!") I end up with soo many stinging marks that I just decided to use gloves. Unfortunately he hates clipping his nails, and the stone slates don't help, so it'll be big bad*ss gloves for now.

Him as a baby:
http://i.imgur.com/ju9I8F5.jpg

At around 5 months old:
http://i.imgur.com/MmWuiLX.jpg

Today at 9 months old:
http://i.imgur.com/BatFKUf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZyKv9IP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ft2pHKz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Glyhslv.jpg

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[Sylphie]

I finaly uploaded March pics from the camera!

Here is Basil, normal around 9/10 months old
http://i.imgur.com/1LEmUCR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WLrVLEj.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YzvTXUF.jpg


Orange oddball Dragon Feet, 11 months old
http://i.imgur.com/PQsrojx.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jEtqSas.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/efKTjkR.jpg

[Sylphie]

and our big boy Bazyl, orange citrus leatherback, also 11 months old, who is already as big as adult male dragon

http://i.imgur.com/SsGfKXQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WEDWijU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/y1oHbAk.jpg

[Sylphie]

I forgot to do updates on forums, so here are some pics from the last few months. They all slowed with their growing, both females are perfectlyhealthy and happy, always calmly letting me pet them, while our boy is slooowly starting to calm down too (even if he still scratches me to blood sometimes). Unfortunately our boy due to really rapid growing developed slight underbite, he's now getting lots and lots of calcium and uvb so hopefully it will get back to norm with time.

Bazylia, normal female:

http://i.imgur.com/7huBuzV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GqsWed2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1c8E3Zk.jpg

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[Sylphie]

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[Sylphie]

Dragon Feet, oddball female:

http://i.imgur.com/I4ETzgT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9cCLCjm.jpg

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[Sylphie]

http://i.imgur.com/UKcLcTB.jpg

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[Sylphie]

Bazyl, orange citurs leatherback het. hypo male:

http://i.imgur.com/vy6wW4R.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SjC9gn2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8S16aRU.jpg

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[Sylphie]

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[Scubadiver59]

It's a Horned Toad on roids!!! :rolleyes:

Seriously...nice looking leg warmer you have there!

[Sylphie]

It's a Horned Toad on roids!!! :rolleyes:

Seriously...nice looking leg warmer you have there!

Thank you! And hahaha, yeah, he's big :D I guess that's why even with proper supplementation he still developed some underbite, it just wasn't enough with his super fast growing.

[Sylphie]

I already updated the snakes threads so it's time to post the overdue beardie pistures! Here are the best pictures from the last 5 months:

Bazylia/Basil:
https://i.imgur.com/mMvTpAY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/C20Ea6u.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/x541il7.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/XYkT5RX.jpg

[Sylphie]

Dragon Feet:
https://i.imgur.com/cWOAeQQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/g75RE4C.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nfYesGQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Hy1Xr5o.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/8uzLnvh.jpg

[Sylphie]

Bazyl:
https://i.imgur.com/i7QQ4IJ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/c7RTUog.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Atpl9mv.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/t682hPP.jpg