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Bearded Dragon Breeding Questions, Need a lot of Help!!!!!!!

wsurugby10 Oct 27, 2004 07:24 AM

Besides a male and a female, what do I need to breed Bearded Dragons? Do I need to change temps? If so, to what? Do I need to brumate them before or after breeding? If so, at what temps? I also have a incubator but what do I need to do when the female lays the eggs? I also need help on hatchling care. How long do I leave them in the incubator and when do I start them in a new terrarium with food? What do I use as substrate? If you couldn't tell I'm confused about the whole process. If someone out there could help me with this process I would really appriciate it. Thanks for your time

Dan Ketterman

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cricketscritters Oct 27, 2004 12:27 PM

Hey Dan,
Check the bearded dragon care sheet at this site. It gives a lot of good info on brumation & breeding.

www.sundialreptile.com

Hope this helps,
Cricket

PHLdyPayne Oct 27, 2004 08:28 PM

Alot more research

Read a few pages worth of posts on this forum will bring up alot of past questions about breeding and various problems that arise. Reading caresheets and websites dealing with bearded dragons will also reveal the basic breeding needs. Many of the sponsors of this forum also have great information about breeding dragons. Some quick facts I listed below:

Age: females 15 months at least (18 months ideal) Males 10 months or older (being similar size to the female is more important than age with males).

lay box for female..mix of soil and vermiculite, moistened so it forms tunnels etc and holds its shape.

Extra food/calcium/multi-vits for female

Females lay 1-6 clutches of 12-30 eggs each.

Gravid is about 2-4 weeks
Incubation about 70 days
Incubation temperature ...I think it's around 78-82F but I do not remember exactly.

Temp eggs incubated at has little to no effect on sex of babies (at least I haven't heard of anything proving otherwise yet)

Brumation is not necessary before breeding

Have a source of crickets ready at least a month before eggs are due to hatch, even have a supply on hand (at least a weeks' worth of 1/8th inch crickets) as eggs hatch when they feel like it, and most likely when you don't expect them to.

Spare money. Very important as 20 baby dragons can go through 1000 crickets a day.

A plan on how you are going to sell the babies (ie: shipping companies, how to back, renting tables at local reptile shows, selling to mass importers etc.)
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PHLdyPayne

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