Thank you for your time. First, make sure you have a male and female. I suppose it is too late for this part, but you should always quarantine new herps and have them checked by a vet before introducing a new potential mate to your established pet.
Before setting up a pair of bearded dragons for breeding, it is essential that the habitat is correct for the species. There should be a temperature gradient of 77 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit with a focal basking spot of degrees. The beardies should be on a balanced diet with adequate calcium.
The lizards must be in optimum condition — especially the female — because breeding, developing eggs and then laying eggs called oviposition takes a lot of metabolic energy. There should be enough room for two adult beardies to comfortably cohabitate, branches for climbing and a rock or nontoxic plant or two to allow one to retreat and hide from the other if necessary.
Keep in mind that keeping your bearded dragons together is temporary. You will need two separate habitats in the long term as well as a suitable habitat for the hatchlings when the time comes. Full-spectrum lighting, including UVB, is necessary for proper calcium metabolism. Either natural sunlight not filtered through glass or plastic or an electric bulb that produces UVB is a necessity. Media New media New comments.
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It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Inbreeding Bearded Dragons. Thread starter gregcranston Start date Jul 3, Tags morelia carinata pogona vitticeps. Status Not open for further replies. Below is some quoted conversation of a discussion on bearded dragon inbreeding that I have been having with another member, which we inadvertantly hijaked someone elses thread with.
So I thought we should start our own thread with it and get some opinions from others. Hawke said:. Click to expand The obvious of course, the hatchlings will most probably be unhealthy and have genetic disorders caused by inbreeding.
They would most probably be sterile and therefore no-one would want to buy them and in the worst case, they could have physical abnormalities.
I think you need to do a bit more research. Breeding siblings and offspring back to parents has no more chance of producing young with defects than an unrelated pairing. You must continuely breed related animals siblings ect for approxamately several generations before the likely-hood of defects is increased.
You can't be serious, it is just basic genetics, inbreeding for even 1 generation will increase the chances of genetic problems in the offspring, its because siblings or parents will have similar heterozygous recessive genes and breeding them would highly increase the chances of some of the offspring from being homozygous for these genes and therefore have the disorder!
Sorry, it seems as though we have hijaked this thread, I think we should start a new thread on this topic. We are talking about reptiles not humans. How can you seriously tell someon that if their related beardies produce eggs they should be thrown out. Sterile, abnormal offspring, what rubbish. The reptile genes are generally very strong when compared to human genes or other mammals, including animals.
For example, mammalians will tolerate a fair bit of reproductive inbreeding before you really have to pay the consequences. The fear of unwanted, harmful results from inbreeding reptiles is generally exaggerated. Remember that many reptile populations are tightly inbred already. Consider starting outbreeding sooner than later. Remember that recessive genes — bad or good — will never go away, they are just not displayed often enough to create a problem.
If you, however, identify any obvious faults in one of the parents you need to remove it from the breeding program. In conclusion, while inbreeding is highly practiced in the reptile world, I personally believe this is unethical and too risky to try with bearded dragons.
There arent much BD owners here from where I am yet but I know their are a few. It's best for your female if you don't breed her until she is 18 month of age. Otherwise she could have health issue down the line and possibly a shortened life. Your male on the other hand will probably be ready around 1 year of age. Ok then, I will wait 18 months :-D Just to be sure, that would mean I will need to keep her in a different tank then huh? She needs to have her own tank ASAP, not just because of breeding but because beardies do not LIKE to be kept together in the long run, they are solitary creatures, and it can be dangerous.
LJean Extreme Poster. I really don't think breeding siblings is a good idea. I kept my two together and they were fine till jamie hit puberty and started annoying the hell outta steph by display and head bobbing and running round like a mad man lol. Then he was so horny yes even the vet said that was the problem he completely lost his appretite so i separated them and hes on his way to recovery still runs out and head bobs at her any chance he gets.
Damn horny teenage boys always being annoying lol. Anyway to the point i also agree you should get them separated as soon as possible just to be safe. Similar threads E. One year old low appetite. Evergrowingfamily Aug 18, Health.
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