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I was wondering if anyone new of a website or book that is very detailed about the breeding of frilled dragons and also the different types of frillies on the market? I have seen many websites and none are very detailed. They only give a paragraph or two about each subject and I have seen none about the different frillies out there. I have had a pair for a little while now but I want to learn more than what these websites offer. Some questions I have include how long does breading behavior usually last, how do I know if the female is pregnant, do I need to seperate them after they have breed, the appropriate way to incubate them, how many are usually in a clutch, do I still need to seperate the female after she lays the eggs....ect. I have also learned that some frillies are worth more than others? Can someone explain the difference.

Sorry about all the questions and some help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Not sure if there is anything out there for what you want. Here is what I did when I kept and bred frilleds. I kept 2.4 in a cage. Many thought two males could not be kept together, but it worked very well for me. I had many large 8-12" diameter braches horizontal and vertical in the cage. I also had two wood shelves one for basking and the other for a water dish. On the floor I only kept a 1/2" of sand and then in the front two corners I had larger piles of sand where the females would always lay. I never removed males or females during anytime of the year. A huge key to my breeding was usuing roaches for food to keep the animal very fat and heatlthy. Good basking spots with 100-125F and cooler spots in the 80's. The females would get very large and start to dig letting me knoe to watch for eggs. Clutches ranged in size for 4-9 eggs with the average being six. I had one female lay six clutches that went 7-5-7-5-7-6. Incubated 80-84F and it ranged from 65-80 days. Now the bad news. It was very easy to get eggs, but much harder to hatch them. I had many eggs go full term and die. I did hatch about 50-60%, but poor compaired the the 99% hatched rate with beardeds. Never kept them long enough to experiment with different egg incubating ways. On to the different types. You have N.G. frilleds from Indonisia which are the most common in the trade. These are usually farm breed and then shipped to the U.S. They can range from grey to nice red frills and bellies. Next you have the Silver phase aussies wjich are just that "silver" or grey. These typically get a few inches longer and are much harder to find. Then you have the true prize, the Nothern Territory Red Phase aussies. These can range from silverish bodies with nice redish orange frills and bellies, to full red everywhere. There have only ever been a handful of these pure animals in the U.S. and that was many years ago. They where crosses with silvers and then the best babies bred again to give a close look to the real thing. Both types of Aussie frilled are easy to tell from N.G.'s because they have white cheeks. the only two people I know breeding both are Sundial Reptiles and South Bay Reptiles. South Bay has some pictures from the babies I produced. One of those sites probably has a care sheet as well. Frilleds are a lot of fun. I wish I didn't travel so much or I would still have mine. Sorry for any grammer areas, but I type fast and don't have time to re-read this.
James
www.blaberus.com

Thanks for all the help, that was alot more afformative than the websites they have out there

-jason

I've also noticed that some males have much larger and more defined heads than others. Does it just go from each individual, happens to all frillies just depending on the maturity, or is it a locality trait.

mine had much larger heads. The females where narrow and much smaller.
James
www.blaberus.com