Please ID this color phase..

[Painted Desert]

This is my daughter's pet beardie Citronee. Can't say as i'm up on the different color phases, wondering if someone could ID her for me Thanks.

[beardiedragon]

very beautiful

Beardies come in all different colors and patterns. Normals are browns and dark earth tones, some light patches of white or off white. Some breeders give names to colors and patterns as a marketing tool. A red or orange Beardie may be called a Blood or my line, a Florida Orange. Colors include Snow/Grey, Red/Orange, Translucent, Albino, Citrus, Green, Yellow/Gold and various combinations. Another color morph is called “hypo” short for hypomelanistic. This simply means a reduced amount of melanin or black coloring. Many Beardies that have a light or pastel color will be sold as hypos. Those with almost no color and clear nails are often marketed as Leucistic. This is a misnomer as there have yet to be any true Leucistic Beardies that I am aware of.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/genotype-phenotype/
Phenotype and genotype is the difference between what a Beardie looks like physically and what they are genetically. Just because a Beardie is a certain color, does not make him a particular morph. If two orange Beardies have a yellow offspring, even though the color is yellow, he is of orange lineage and will probably throw more orange babies than yellow. The yellow is a fluke. This is why people who breed for color charge more. They are selling animals that genetically have better odds of producing a particular color and a better chance that offspring will grow up that way too.

[Capital Dragons]

That’s a nice orange dragon. I normally call my dragons “morph” depending were it came from. I.e. if I bought a Blood dragon from the Dragons Den it would be a blood. If I crossed that Blood with a Sandfire from Sandfire Dragon Ranch I would call the babies Blood X Sandfire. That way people who are buying offspring know what bloodlines their babies are from and can avoid inbreeding.

If your not sure were your dragon is from I would try to track down were it was breed and try to find out its linage. Seeing you are from Canada this is even more important. Real color has only been available up here within the last few years and people really need to keep records to help prevent inbreeding.

If you can’t track down any info on your dragon I would just call it as you see it. Orange, red, yellow, white, normal or what ever you see it as.

Good luck,
Tim
www.capitaldragons.com

[Painted Desert]

Thanks everyone. Her name "Citronee" refers to the fact that as a hatchling she was yellow and green. Not anymore All i know is that her "mother" was a blood. She's cute just the way she is....even if she won't eat her greens. Devil.