Beardie cross breeding

[fugawi]

Has anyone crossed a Pagona Barbata with a Pagona Vitticeps? What colours will come out? Any other info I should know? My barbata is heavily preggers and my Vitticeps can be the only cause. Horny little bugger he is))

 

[fugawi]

They will never be for sale or rebreeding, just an interesting accident.

 

[cris]

Hybrids seem to be floating around a fair bit(usually sold as one species or the other), please make sure you record them as crosses (i believe this is legal in NSW). In the wild your get hybrid zones like with carpet pythons, some anteresia etc. so its not really playing god or whatever IMO.

barbata especially males are dull.....

Simply not true, maybe the bulk in captivity look dull but some match if not beat centrals when it comes to colour.

 

[fugawi]

It should be interesting to see what comes out. Male is a yellow Central, female is a jet black to almost central light tan colouration (depending on mood).

 

[Chris1]

They will never be for sale or rebreeding, just an interesting accident.

yikes! youre planning to raise and keep up to 60 beardies for 10-15 years?
thats gonna be a huuuuuuuuuuge job!!

 

[beeman]

Kenshin, barbata can be just as bright as vitticeps, we have a few that are some that display a very strong yellow.

 

[fugawi]

God I hope not,there only seems to be about 8- 10 eggs (Hopefully).

 

[beeman]

one mating can produce 3-4 clutches of fertile eggs, So any where
from 15 to 25 per clutch

 

[Vixen]

Not to mention if you keep them all then they are going to need to be separated so THEY don't breed?

 

[GeckoJosh]

I think those eggs would be better of in the freezer (keep one or two if you really want), and keep you dragons separate from now on

 

[fugawi]

I'm a fridgy by trade so constructing temperature controlled enclosures, no matter what size, should not be a problem.
Again not for the market....too many problems.

 

[cris]

ah most the ones iv seen around brissy have been brown or super black

I havnt seen any around brisbane lately but those i have seen were very dull looking (still nice looking critters IMO). The nicer coloured easterns i have seen are further west, but with many reptiles you get lots of variation in the same area. I dont really go herping much, im sure others would know much more about this. hopefully some will drift into the system one day. There are some yellow ones around in captivity, but never seen any orange or red ones available.

 

[hornet]

I used to have some awsome yellow easterns, if i ever do get beardies again which i'm sure i will one day they will be some of the nicer easterns, as said some of them look way better then centrals. As bee man said 1 mating can fertilize more then just the single clutch and beardies are a very hungry lizard so your going to be best off either ditching all the eggs or at least most of them, 1 mating could theoretically produce up to 100 hatchies

 

[GeckoJosh]

Iv seen some pics of some wild smurf blue Easterns, they were awesome