The home of Bearded Dragons - Pogona Vitticeps
General Information | Colour Morphs
Juvenile red bearded dragon
Bearded Dragons come in all different colours and patterns. Normals are browns and dark earth tones, some light patches of white or off white. Some breeders give names to colours and patterns as a marketing tool. A red or orange Bearded Dragon may be called a Blood red or some people add their own titles to their colours... "TW Reds"? Morphs includes Snow/Grey, Red/Orange, Translucent, Albino, Citrus, Green, Yellow/Gold and various combinations.
Another morph is called "hypo" short for hypomelanistic. This simply means a reduced amount of melanin or black colouring. Many Bearded Dragons that have a light or pastel colour will be sold as hypos. Those with almost no colour and clear nails are often marketed as Leucistic. This is a misnomer as there have yet to be any true Leucistic Bearded Dragons that I am aware of.
Phenotype and genotype is the difference between what a Bearded Dragon looks like physically and what they are genetically. Just because a Bearded Dragon is a certain colour, does not make him a particular morph. If two orange Bearded Dragons have a yellow offspring, even though the colour 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 colour charge more. They are selling animals that genetically have better odds of producing a particular colour and a better chance that offspring will grow up that way too.
Breeding | Colour Morphs | Leatherbacks | Silkbacks | Translucents | Hypos | Genetics
