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New Collared...

mwrinkle Oct 08, 2008 02:42 PM

... you can congradulate me on being a new keeper/owner. He just arrived today is bewteen 3 and 4 months old and beautiful Aquaflame male. Gorgeous animal, and it didn't even have to be bred for recessive morphs to get this color. Very hyperactive animal climbing all over the place and even hanging from the lid. I went to check the temps with a digital thermometer and it tried to leap out of the cage and boy can they jump. It left a turd already which looked normal and didn't have a pungent oder so I will assume its parasite free for the time and assures me its been eating. My female bearded dragon is jealous. Even though her cage is halfway across the room I noticed her beard is black and she is head bobing. She has done this to her reflection in the glass the last couple months, but this is in the corner of the cage facing at the Collards tank so she has to see and is displaying at the other lizard. I put a towel over the corner to calm her.

Replies (5)

Rosebuds Oct 08, 2008 03:35 PM

Are you sure that beardie is a female???? That sounds like classic male behavior. Even my most head bobbing female only bobs at males and her beard is never black, though some females can black beard.

Well, we must have pics! This baby sounds just too cute not to share.

mwrinkle Oct 08, 2008 04:45 PM

That was the concerted opinion of two different vets that have seen it and listed in the Herpconnection for treating reptiles. I asked Vickie Daichu at MARS this year about it and she said that Females raised alone tend to aquire a dominant streak, so much so that if you aquire a second female to keep with it it may be aggressive towrds it.

Rosebuds Oct 08, 2008 05:13 PM

I have one that fits that description. She is a head bobbing, big bearding, agreesive girl when the other females are around, and really bad when the males are around. She has about five different head bobs and three or four arm waves!

the4thmonkey Oct 08, 2008 07:38 PM

Congrats on your new collared and welcome to the forum!
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PHEve Oct 09, 2008 09:12 AM

So nice to have you and your new lil buddy we will certainly look forward to seeing our newest scaly member, lol. Hope you enjoy our forum we have a nice bunch, the people are okay too, hahahhaaa ( VERY GOOD people) Just holler if ya need anything , otherwise put yur feet up and sit a spell.

Enjoy
Collared pics / Care and Lots more

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