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Here are some shots of some holdbacks we produced this year. Didn't keep too many not enough time this year, but these have turned out pretty good.

Red/Orange hatchling female

Before shed females at a couple of weeks

A few weeks after shed (same females)

Very light colored Orange Snow female

Red/Orange female

Another Red/Orange female

Some of our sugar gliders just for fun - hanging out at the water cooler

Maximus our Tamatave Panther Chameleon

Hope everyone enjoys the pictures.

brandon & jessica
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wow those are awsome thanks

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hey brandon! nice babies! keep an eye out on that male for me!lol!

marilee

Here's a pic of my hold back for this year, heshe is a RedGold Morph. Enjoy!

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2.1.4 Bearded Dragon (Ember,Sunshine,Misspiggy,Spyro,Inferno,Cinder,Peaches)
2.1 Leopard Geckos
(Patternless,Blizzard,Hypo Tangerine)
0.1 Bibron Geck
1 Austrailian Shepard (Griz)
3 Cats (Twilight,Hadies,Pietree)
1 Ferret (Nibbles)

Here is one other dragon, not a hold back but one I picked up earlyer this year. She is a Orange X GermanGiant. Enjoy!

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2.1.4 Bearded Dragon (Ember,Sunshine,Misspiggy,Spyro,Inferno,Cinder,Peaches)
2.1 Leopard Geckos
(Patternless,Blizzard,Hypo Tangerine)
0.1 Bibron Geck
1 Austrailian Shepard (Griz)
3 Cats (Twilight,Hadies,Pietree)
1 Ferret (Nibbles)

One More!
A Pastel X Orange.

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2.1.4 Bearded Dragon (Ember,Sunshine,Misspiggy,Spyro,Inferno,Cinder,Peaches)
2.1 Leopard Geckos
(Patternless,Blizzard,Hypo Tangerine)
0.1 Bibron Geck
1 Austrailian Shepard (Griz)
3 Cats (Twilight,Hadies,Pietree)
1 Ferret (Nibbles)

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I myself am currently tryingto decide how many and which dragons to hold back.

My question is, at what age/size do you make your decision to hold them back?

So far I picked a couple out for myself based on size/feeding/vitality, but when selecting for color potential it seems pretty much a crap shoot, so I was wondering how you decide.

Thanks,
Paul Kemes

Hey Paul,

That's a hard question to answer bc there are a lot of variables that determine that for us, such as how many we want to hold back, how much space, and so on.

Also, a lot of our lines we know what the babies look like that turn out with the "best color" and "patterns" that we can pick out of the clutch pretty well after a few days out of the egg.

But, to make it easy, if we were just looking at a clutch of dragons and were trying to pick out the ones to hold back, we would pick the largest and healthiest ones, with the best appetite and good personality. Obviously after their first shed it's pretty easy to tell which ones to keep, but after about two weeks we normally get a very good idea of how they will turn out at least for the first two months. After that, they change a lot it's hard to say for sure.

Hope that helped,
brandon
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What a differance a few weeks can make huh?.... Very nice....
Love the red/orange and the tamatavi!

Robert
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen, philosophers and divines.
Ralph Emerson

Hey Robert,

Thanks a lot. Yea, your right.. it's awesome how dragons can change.. that's the fun part of them I think. Yea, the Tamataves are very cool, do you keep them?

brandon
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