Kinda proud of myself

[lady_bug87]

Yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine who was considering breeding her juvenile female beardie with her leatherback (when both were older and if the leatherback turned out to be a male) and I gave him some preeeetttyyy compelling information

like that 1 copulation can get you over 100 eggs, that selling baby beardies is hard because there are so many of them (in my area of Toronto you cant go to a petstore and NOT see beardies), and that taking care of over a hundred hungry little fellers and keeping them is a huge task

By the end he looked at me and went... o my lord, yea we wont be breeding anything any time soon

see I stopped a case of "we-had-no-idea-it-would-be-this-way" breeding


NOT that i am against breeding I just felt that he should have some information

[Valvaren]

Thank you so much. Seriously if I lived within walking distance I would hug you. There are SO many people out there that thinks beardies are quick and easy buck and don't realize how many babies you get and how flooded we are with them as it is. I would love to have a baby from my dragon to always have a part of her but I will never ever breed here, there are to many people doing it already and it always upsets me meeting people who realize the consequences and still do it because they want to without thinking of all the lives that they will be responsible for and then cry about not being able to get rid of them. Also those babies in over packed tanks in pet stores that end up dying make me sick.

[alessia55]

wow, yeah, good for you for making sure they thought it through before making that possibly overwhelming mistake

[TeaNinja]

lol, good save xD
i've personally thought about breeding my dumerils many times and i did tons of research before i ever even stumbled upon a female. now all i have to do is wait a few years for the girl to get huge ;)
people should do a lot of research before they actually jump into something like that.

[lady_bug87]

Thanks all,

I couldn't NOT say anything and I happen to know that he and his wife are fairly new to reptiles.. I also had to warn against his wife's idea to breed leatherback to leatherback due to genetic complications

Like I said I am not anti-breeding, I have an incubator full of eggs as a testament to that fact, in saying that I already have a list of people that want a hatchling if I am able to hatch them.

But I am sooo sick of seeing dozens and dozens of beardie babies all in the same tank and seeing the results my male has a kink in his tail from cage mate aggression when I saw him at the store he was cowering in the corner and I asked the woman to pull him out for me to look at and then that was it he was mine... my little bugger

[KORBIN5895]

My beardie is a rescue. The guy I got her from got here at an animal hospital because some one abandoned her. He decided to get a male and breed them. After 14 babies being born and sold for 50 bucks each he decided to get 2 more females. ALL 4 lived in a 30x 20 x 18 wooden TV stand converted into a tank. My girl has no right foot( probably maimed as a baby). But..... all 4 are around 2.5 years and none of them have a tail over 6 or 7 inches. One has both feet mangled beyond use( she has 6 toenails in total) I dropped her off at a guy that rehabs them. I gave one to a friend who has a son that has been dying for a beardie( the chewed tail was the only problem with her.) The male went to a friend that his wife wouldn't let him keep his snake with the new baby but said a beardie was OK. Both of his long back toes were dead.

[millertime89]

Thanks for doing that, a few days after Nero arrived I needed to run into the pet store to pick up some things, and there was a family checking out the reptiles, and they wanted to see a beardie. The employee reached in the cage and picked one up, stiff as a board dead, there was a second one that was dead in there too that she found after the family left. Such a sad sight. There were about a half dozen (not counting the two that died) in a 12x12x8 glass tank.