I bought this girl from a pet shop who had her in with a male and 2 other females in a 75 gallon tank. She had just laid 22 eggs and was of course emaciated (awfully stressful). So I get her home and nurse her back to health with some baby food and baby spinach. After I had her for a few weeks I got a tub of mealies to split between her and my male sandfire, and I walk back into the room a half hour later to this! Previously she was, for lack of a more descriptive word, (bleep) brown with yucky grey banding. She only shows these bright colors when she has recently eaten mealies (2-3 day span). What is she?
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My girl, what is she?
Voodoo_Charlie
Jan 06, 2006 01:20 AM
Replies (3)
jakentbc
Jan 06, 2006 09:09 AM
looks like it may be a hypomelanistic with some yellow in it. If there is any chance you can take a picture that is much closer to the animal it may be easier to identify.
may just be a yellow normal....some people, i swear, just like to make up names for the type of dragon such as yellow dessert or yellow ghost.
you should ask the pet store where they got the dragon from.
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beardiedragon
Jan 06, 2006 06:51 PM
Looks like a bearded dragon to me, a pretty one at that. Sorry to say, you cannot classify a dragon by looks. Every breeder has there own names for the dragons they produce but they are really all the same with just different colors. You can have 2 babies from the same parent that look nothing like one another. Pet stores often times buy from wholesalers so there is no way to track them down. If they do buy from local breeders there will often times be a variety of BDs in the store so the odds of backtracking are slim.
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Bennett
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po
Jan 07, 2006 02:17 PM
i would not use spinach, it has oxalates (sp?) and they will take the Ca from her food and move it to her muscles, this can lead to MBD, and after just laying eggs you want her bones to get all the Ca they have been missing. good luck with her and good job stepping in to keep a baby healthy!
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