Breeding frillies..small question

[wyz]

I'd like to get some input form people who have bred frilled dragons.

I read the great article on them in a past issue of reptiles magazine.

In there it sais that the need to be put away for 2 months with NO food and NO water.

This scares me the hell out...

DO any of you guys use that method and is their risks ?

thanks.

WYZ

[V.hb]

Yes, 2 months may not be all that nessecary but a period of brumation does help. You dry them out, then hydrate the hell out of them. Make sure you have a pair, i find the best way of knowing is you will see a huge size difference by the time they are around 2 years of age. Males are 2-3 times the size of females. Be very careful of housing males together espeacially after brumation they can become very aggressive & territorial. Got any pics of your frills?

[wyz]

Thanks V.hb..

I don't have pics yet, I went and have a look at them yesterday, I'll be getting them in 15 days. But since we need to start to get them ready pretty soon (September) again if I listen to what is said in the reptiles article.. I'm asking informations in advance to be 100% ready when they get in.

The female is 24 months and the male is 18 months old and he's a bit bigger than the female.

I'll be honest with you, I wasn't able to determine the sex myself.. the males frill was a bit larger, no more than 25% larger and he did have a more massive skull.

Any other easy and accurate tricks to sex them ?

I'll ask for close up pics and post them as soon as I get them.

Thanks.

WYZ

[V.hb]

Man, sexing is really hard with them. Males are alot bulkier, heavier, larger frilles all around much larger. Females usually act completely different. At that age you specified the male should be quite alot larger than the female (in bulk/mass)

[Frillie]

Hey. Ya sexing is hard but the frill is the key. Males should be a lot larger but not necessarily too much longer...its best to go by the circumfrance when they open them up..which isnt always good. At that age it sould be fairly obvious...the head on males is generally a lot bigger too. Anyway I'm breeding mine and at first I did nothing in terms of a cool down...I just laid it into them with the spraying...like 3 times a day....really high humidity...tonnes of food...lots of calcium to help the female with the egg production and that was abuot it...it didn;t take too long to get eggs. I found that the most important thign was that the male needed to feel in charge...I put him in with her at first and that was no good...she jumped on him a lot and seemed ready but he just ran away a lot :) So i took the female out and when i reintrodueced her a month later he took charge in a big way :) Anyway good luck...trust me when you see those little heads poking through the eggs for the first time its truely incredible.

peace