Balboa's Story

Balboa is one of my male Central Bearded Dragons. He is about 55cm’s from snout to the tip of his tail. He is around 2.5-3 years of age and a grey/cream phase.

I had to travel around a hour and a half to get this guy, I was rushed when I realized I wanted a male, as it was getting closer and closer to breeding season, and I had no male to breed with rocky. So I took the first option I had, as I was looking for around a month before hand. After placing an advertisement searching for a Male central bearded dragon on www.petlink.com (see favorite links) I received an email from Jake Hardy, so I traveled down to Campbeltown on the 28/8/08 and picked up my new dragon.

When I got there I was not very hapy, as he was a little more flighty then I had hoped, but as I had travelled so far, it seemed pointless to turn back, I wont be doing that again. From now on I am going to make sure I only buy quality healthy animals.

When I got Balboa home, I noticed more scars and cuts on him, he was fairly skinny too. He was all I had, so I bred him with my female, and got a fairly high egg count.

After around a week, I noticed a bubble come from his mouth, Normally this means he has a respiratory infection. Now respiratory infections are not uncommon, and you generally will get one through out the life of each reptile, but as always, treating reptiles can be expensive. The infection is also highly contagious so he had to be isolated from my other dragons. Instead of taking him to the vet, I upped his temp and fed him up some more, He didn’t show any more signs of it. Aside from being a bit slow catching food, after some one on one feeding time He is now back on his feet looking as good as ever.

A little backgroud info!

Hey Guys, I decided to create this blog, not only to share some information with other people, but just so that I have a place to put all my stuff together and in one place.

The main focus of this Blog will be about my Reptiles, breeding them, and just general updates on them.

I am 17 years old, Turning 18 in 6 days. I left school in September 2007, after I got into a Radio certificate 3 course at TAFE. Whilst at my last year of school, in 07, I completed a Cert two in Journalism. I have done the cert 3 in Radio, and I am currently completing cert 3 in News Media.

Also, another reason I left school was because I got a job on the local radio station, I have a teen radio show called “Teen Revolution” On Saturday nights from 7-9pm. Check us out at www.myspace.com/teenrevolutionradio

Recently with the Radio Program, we were in Dolly Magazine, Where one of my co-hosts was interviewed and put on a page of dolly, I will add a picture of the article, explaining in more detail the radio work we do.

(Click the image to see the full article and Picture, I am the guy pointing up)

At the moment I own three Adult Bearded dragons, I have previously kept bluetongue skinks, and an eastern long necked turtle, But I will go into them with more detail in separate blogs. Also, as soon as I figure out how, I will Upload some pictures of myself and my reptiles for you to see.

The last 2 months have been fairly busy with the reptiles, as this is my first year breeding, My female has laid eggs and the whole process is both very exciting and nerve wrecking. There will be a few blogs on the Eggs process and how they are going.

Thanks for reading!