Citrus Tiger Background

I am the originator of the citrus tiger dragon, I have read information on other websites with lineage information and that information is incorrect. I started working on the "blue barred dragons" tiger gene in 1997 and while we had visual "tiger" barred dragons before that I had been working on, none passed this gene to all his progeny or even a few of his progeny with regularity. Even when breeding two visual tiger barred animals together sometimes less than half the clutch would show this patterning and those babies kept back and bred to produce this trait were similarly unsuccessful. One particular dragon that came from my dad's stock which was an orange and blue dragon with a blue belly and light greenish iris named "KayCee" he had a "digit" at the end of his tail (not a tail nip probably part of evolution my vet said..not sure) and he was bred to several females and 100% of the progeny from him had extreme tiger patterning and about 30% have that digit in the tail These offspring were bred over the years to Ghosts, Citrus, Red, etc with the same result. All offspring had barring. The progeny with the minimal barring when bred to a non tiger produced the same result as an extreme tiger..all offspring had barring..some minimal some heavy. Tigers can show in any form: Translucent, Fire Tiger, Rainbow Tiger, Citrus Tiger, Tangerine Tiger, Ghost Tiger, etc. While we have animals here that have tiger bars some are not a genetic tiger and will not predictably reproduce this pattern it is a visual trait, these are not classified as tigers here and may be advertised as a dragon with blue barring, they will not be called Tigers. If the dragon has come from the tiger lineage then it will be labeled as a tiger. Citrus Tigers resulted from KayCee progeny bred to Apollo a pure Citrus dragon that produced incredible red offspring even when bred to a Citrus (founder of the Bricky Red and Red Citrus lines) line dragons and the yellow and blues were pulled and bred to the patternless citrus lines. Draggintails Citrus Tigers can be seen all over the world, I began exporting them as soon as the gene was established and to this day to France, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Japan, Thailand, Scotland, England and Ireland and from there they have spread all over the globe, you can spot them in every colony as they are one of the most recognizable morphs of bearded dragons on the planet . The most famous of the Citrus Tigers was a female named Shamy..not the most neon yellow of my dragons, however, she produced the most electrifying tigers ever for that time and clients from Europe would fly here for Shamy parties to hand pick her babies every year when she produced her clutches. She has passed on now, but her progeny are still here with me.

Hypo Tang Background

The tangs are a result of crossing my Dad's Cletus (red/blood) and a yellowish green female. The progeny were safety cone orange..we didn't know what to think. Now, at this time there were not a lot of hypomelanistics to speak of and Dachiu's were putting out most of the hypos at this time..........and these were especially clean and orange. We then crossed these out to the black nailed ghosts (called ghosts back then but are simply snows or a light colored normal). This pairing resulted in some of the most prolific dragons we have ever had. The nicest development of this bloodline was later on when we had hypo citrus from Goldfinger and crossed the tangs into this hypo citrus..the progeny were tangerine and all het hypo, they took off from there. One of the most famous of the hypotangs was "Juilo" a a large hypotang male that did a great job breeding for quite a few years. This line has produced with regularity "smooth" scaled dragons although they have no leatherback in the bloodline and good number of paradox dragons.

Red Citrus Background

Red Citrus is not a Red crossed to a citrus. The story is very old actually. Apollo one of our citrus males was bred to numerous yellow females and the result was 100% red dragons with high yellow undertones, no yellow dragons. This would be fine if Apollo was actually a red dragon that hatched out yellow, however, he was one of our own Citrus dragons. We could not market these dragons as Citrus even though they were Citrus x Citrus bearded dragons. They were not Crimsons or Bloods either. So we had to ID the progeny in a way we would understand what would happen if we outcrossed them. . You can spot one of these anywhere!