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Mopar Lover
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me & me girl just got back from a spontaneous camping trip , we had to come back early because i got a full time job starting tomorrow 
. but i got some photos of a big beared dragon & huge eastern brown snake that was road kill . man that snake is a man killer for sure he must of been 6 foot long at leased . & they are one of the most venomous snakes in the world & everywhere around here . & our tent's door's zip wouldn't shut , so i taped it sort of together sort of . as you could imagine my girl was thrilled to death about the idea of sleeping with a holy door with snakes , wild dogs & everything else that goes bump in the night . enjoy
. but i got some photos of a big beared dragon & huge eastern brown snake that was road kill . man that snake is a man killer for sure he must of been 6 foot long at leased . & they are one of the most venomous snakes in the world & everywhere around here . & our tent's door's zip wouldn't shut , so i taped it sort of together sort of . as you could imagine my girl was thrilled to death about the idea of sleeping with a holy door with snakes , wild dogs & everything else that goes bump in the night . enjoy
Mopar Lover
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From: South Point OH
Thanks Dead, I'd heard about the Browns, but had never seen one, sure am glad it was in that shape rather than coming to visit you inside the tent Hilton you all had out there. That beardie is sure the largest I've ever seen, I guess they grow larger in the wild than in captivity. You all have a great outdoors there, glad you two enjoy it.
Here's a couple of my first beardies, Merlin and Guin. The second pic was when I first introduced them, Guin had this look in her eyes like she was a virgin about to get jumpped by the whole football team, Merlin was running around her in circles, bobbin his head and biting her neck before he finally mounted her. I got a lot of enjoyment out of watching the eggs hatch lol.
Here's a couple of my first beardies, Merlin and Guin. The second pic was when I first introduced them, Guin had this look in her eyes like she was a virgin about to get jumpped by the whole football team, Merlin was running around her in circles, bobbin his head and biting her neck before he finally mounted her. I got a lot of enjoyment out of watching the eggs hatch lol.
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Mopar Lover
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mate how much do breaded dragons cost over there ??? & how did you get interested in them ??? mate as kids at school we use to catch grasshoppers & feed em to the beardies at school . we also have a very common lizard called eastern water dragon or monitor . very similar but a fair bit bigger & swims , lives near creeks . I've got a mate I've known all my life & if it moves he'll catch it . mate he is insane he catches venomous snakes & all 
. so I've got to see heaps of reptiles up & close . he don't like keeping things in tanks or cages . his house is full of all sorts of lizards , snakes , turtles ect ect & there all loose , like i said he's insane & doesn't shut up about em & he uses all the technical names 
. i have 2 pic's of a blue tongue lizard as well that was at the back door @ my mates work shop . cya also that big beardy he was also bobing his head up & down & prancing about lifting its front feet side to side ???? doing like a dance sort of . i didn't see any others though .
. so I've got to see heaps of reptiles up & close . he don't like keeping things in tanks or cages . his house is full of all sorts of lizards , snakes , turtles ect ect & there all loose , like i said he's insane & doesn't shut up about em & he uses all the technical names . i have 2 pic's of a blue tongue lizard as well that was at the back door @ my mates work shop . cya also that big beardy he was also bobing his head up & down & prancing about lifting its front feet side to side ???? doing like a dance sort of . i didn't see any others though .
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Yea that dance and bounce, is either a mating dance or a dominance show. Either he thought you were really cute, or he was trying to scare you off. First time I ever saw it, I'd had him about two months, and my cat used to love to tap his tail to get him to move about. One day he just turned around, blew out his beard and started bobbing his head, bouncing and stuff, then just took off running at the cat. The cat had sat down sideways, and Merlin jumped, hit him in the shoulder and knocked him over. That lizard chased the cat around for about half an hour that day, off and on, and after that the cat would never bother him again.
Beardies over here start at about $100 US and I've seen some that were really colorful (like all lemon yellow with some turquoise spots) sell for over $1000. I'm pretty sure you can't export them from Oz tho, they're supposed to come from breeding stocks already outside the country. I used to sell my hatchlings for about $80 once they got about 2 months old, But I'd have almost that much in them from buying and feeding them small crickets and the other things they needed. Lots of people like the Water monitor over here too.
We have a lizard over here called the Horney Toad, looks similar to the Beardie, but much smaller and shorter in length, with a more spiky finish, and I (like your friend) used to catch anything that moved when I was kid too. I used to catch them when I was a kid and living out west. I just happened to see a beardie in a pet shop one day, thought of the horney toads, and before it was all over, I had a couple of breeding pairs, and extra female, and was getting about 50-60 eggs from each female each year. Slowly but surely I just whittled the herd down, till Merlin died after I'd had him about 6-7 years. I was just going thru a divorce,a nd they sure helped keep my mind off it
Here's a website I got a few of my beardies from. The first link is the overall site, just to give you an idea of what all people will go for, the second is beardies for sale in classifieds.
http://kingsnake.com/
http://market.kingsnake.com/index.php?cat=51
Beardies over here start at about $100 US and I've seen some that were really colorful (like all lemon yellow with some turquoise spots) sell for over $1000. I'm pretty sure you can't export them from Oz tho, they're supposed to come from breeding stocks already outside the country. I used to sell my hatchlings for about $80 once they got about 2 months old, But I'd have almost that much in them from buying and feeding them small crickets and the other things they needed. Lots of people like the Water monitor over here too.
We have a lizard over here called the Horney Toad, looks similar to the Beardie, but much smaller and shorter in length, with a more spiky finish, and I (like your friend) used to catch anything that moved when I was kid too. I used to catch them when I was a kid and living out west. I just happened to see a beardie in a pet shop one day, thought of the horney toads, and before it was all over, I had a couple of breeding pairs, and extra female, and was getting about 50-60 eggs from each female each year. Slowly but surely I just whittled the herd down, till Merlin died after I'd had him about 6-7 years. I was just going thru a divorce,a nd they sure helped keep my mind off it
Here's a website I got a few of my beardies from. The first link is the overall site, just to give you an idea of what all people will go for, the second is beardies for sale in classifieds.
http://kingsnake.com/
http://market.kingsnake.com/index.php?cat=51
