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Hi, new to bearded dragons here. I'm planning to get a pair as pets and breed them down the line. My question is this: If I really like dark red dragons and bright yellow dragons, should I get a pair of dark reds, bright yellows or one of each. If I cross the red with a yellow, will it "average out" the color to something in between, or will it produce some of each, or produce normal looking hets? Don't know what to do.

Thanks for the advice.

Mixing colors can have interesting results and with bearded dragons, the babies could take on colors more towards either parent or a blend of both. Dark reds and bright yellows may result in a more 'orange' dragon or something of a mix of red dragons, yellow dragons or a mix of both colors on the same dragon. Yellow body, darker orange-red head, or banding.. Seems to me alot of breeders mix colors and get interesting results as it is.
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PHLdyPayne

Thanks for the reply. I guess it depends on how much I want to experiment. Just seems strange paying a premium for a specific morph and then then mixing it with another that might change the original morph.

Thanks again.

I can weigh in on this one pretty well. My Dragon is actually the offspring of a high yellow bred to a high red dragon. He is mostly a pale yellow, with very little red in him. I actually saw one of his brothers, and he had what looked like a candy cane for a tail. The offspring of the clutch varied a good bit, but if my dragon is any indication of what they mature into, its a little disapointing. When he was a hatching his color was pretty crazy, but with each shed he gets a little less colorful, and is evening out into a nice mustard color. I would be interested to see what his brothers and sisters looked like, and what that dragon with a candy cane tale has matured into. It is a cross that is pretty interesting, but its up to you to decide what you want out of your babies. A pure cross would probably sell better, when it came to marketing your offspring, but a mixed cross is always fun as well! Good luck!
I will get a picture of my dragon time permitting, some time in the next few days for you.
-Dustin
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Thanks, Dustin,

That's my concern about mixing two extreme color morphs. I have limited space, so breeding to get numberous offspring and picking that one out of the bunch that's visually unique is not very attractive. If I do breed, I'd kind of like to know what I'm going to get. I'm leading toward getting a pair of bright yellows and a pair of bright reds. If I decide later on to mix the colors, hopefully the animals would cooperate.

Thanks again for the reply. It really helped.

Mark

Hi
i breeded a yellow tigerfase sandfire with a red tigerfase sandfire .
and for 4 years i got nice babies .
1/3 came out yellow,1/3 came out orange 1./3 came out red .
so thats good in my opinion.
some people want a yellow dragon other wanna have a orange ,red dragon .
byeeeee
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