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I've known that there are a variety of different colour morphs for beardies, but I've never actualy found out what they are, or how to identify one from another. Can anyone tell me off hand, or link me to a good site that can tell me what all (or at least the most common) morphs are, and what the identifying features are.

www.dragonsdenherp.com has a wonderful gallery of morphs (a lot of which he originally produced).

http://www.dragonsdenherp.com/htm2/dragons.htm (right to the color morph section)

Those dragons are amazing!
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0.1 Bearded dragon
0.1 mexican kingsnake
1.0.2 Leopard Gecko's
0.0.1 Rose Hair Tarantula
1.0 BTS
0.0.1 Reverse Okeetee Corn
0.1 Bullmastiff
4.1 Cats

wow, those are some nice beardies, unfortunately they didn't mention how to determine one morph from the next, what are the characteristics to look for that will allow me to see a beardie and be able to confidently say what morph it is?

The only way to know the morph is to ask the breeder. Anyone can call a beardie anything, there is no science behind it. No two dragons are alike, even from the same clutch.
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A mans got to do what a mans got to do. A woman has to do what he can't.

Mom to:

1 little boy born 7/19/04
2 male RES, born 1999
1 ribbon snake, age unknown
3 FBT, ages unknown
1 female bearded dragon, born 5/2002
1 male lab mix, born 5/24/03
1 female calico cat, born 6/7/04

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so then there'd be no way for me to figure out what my beardie is then? (seeing as I don't have any way to trace my beardie down to his breeder, and even so, the odds that the breeder would remember)

Nope, not a chance. You could find a similar beardie and guess, but you would have no way of knowing for sure.
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A mans got to do what a mans got to do. A woman has to do what he can't.

Mom to:

1 little boy born 7/19/04
2 male RES, born 1999
1 ribbon snake, age unknown
3 FBT, ages unknown
1 female bearded dragon, born 5/2002
1 male lab mix, born 5/24/03
1 female calico cat, born 6/7/04

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sig file edited 1/29/05 [phw]

What she said

and Beardies come in all different colors and patterns. Normals are browns and dark earth tones, some light patches of white or off white. Some breeders give names to colors and patterns as a marketing tool. A red or orange Beardie may be called a Blood or my line, a Florida Orange. Colors include Snow/Grey, Red/Orange, Translucent, Albino, Citrus, Green, Yellow/Gold and various combinations. Another color morph is called “hypo” short for hypomelanistic. This simply means a reduced amount of melanin or black coloring. Many Beardies that have a light or pastel color will be sold as hypos. Those with almost no color and clear nails are often marketed as Leucistic. This is a misnomer as there have yet to be any true Leucistic Beardies that I am aware of.

Phenotype and genotype is the difference between what a Beardie looks like physically and what they are genetically. Just because a Beardie is a certain color, does not make him a particular morph. If two orange Beardies have a yellow offspring, even though the color is yellow, he is of orange lineage and will probably throw more orange babies than yellow. The yellow is a fluke. This is why people who breed for color charge more. They are selling animals that genetically have better odds of producing a particular color and a better chance that offspring will grow up that way too.

hope that helps
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Bennett

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