Blue/Green Water Dragons

[Miss B]

Found these on an American site. They are breeding blue and green Water Dragons (although these are the Asian Water Dragon, Physignathus cocincinus, and not our P. lesueurii).

How cool do they look?!

 

[Mrs I]

They look awesome Miss B

 

[Retic]

They are beautiful, that is their natural colours.

 

[Miss B]

They are beautiful, that is their natural colours.

According to their breeder, they naturally have blue 'hues', however that intensity of colour as shown in the pic is selectively bred for. I love their big black marble eyes

Actually now I don't know... just looked them up and the wild ones do seem to have quite strong green colours already, don't they?

 

[JasonL]

I can't see any blue? But I'm not too good at seeing colours, I have trouble seeing any difference between Gippies and Easterns!

 

[Miss B]

Yeah none of their dragons really look 'blue'. Maybe greeny-blue, but that's about it. This is about the closest I could find:

They are still really beautiful looking, imagine if our own Eastern Water Dragons came in that colour :shock:

And this is what their website says:

The Blues are a true genetic variant much like Albinism. Xanthinism is the scientific name of this Morph . The variant is also called Syanism in Europe.(Buzz got his dragons from Europe about twelve years ago) meaning of a high blue color.​

Diet and environmental factors are taken into consideration, but nobody has ever turned a green dragon blue, without the genetics. If they were not “really blue“, as my detractors claim, I would not be in business .​

 

[Kirby]

the blue is around the lips and chest.. i would imagin on the tail also..

they are beautiful, i wish we could get exotics, BUT i wish it owuldnt effect our wildlife.. one of those things in life, you cant have both..

 

[serpenttongue]

I dont think i've ever seen a pic of an asian Water Dragon that hasn't had a raw snout

Give me the Aussie Water Dragons any day.