CARE GUIDES
Husbandry Guides
Summarizes guidelines for enclosures, temperature and humidity, lighting, diet, and health monitoring based on the specific environmental needs and behavioral habits of each species. Please check the applicable conditions and sources for the figures provided.
Species-Specific Care Guides
Striped Mud Turtle Care Guide: Shallow Water, Dry Land, and Water Quality | Kinosternon baurii
Even a small striped mud turtle needs graded water depth and safe dry land. A practical guide to age-appropriate space, temperature and UVB checks, filtration, feeding, and warning signs.
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Beauty Rat Snake Care Guide: Space, Temperatures, Humidity, Feeding, and Health | Elaphe taeniura
A practical, conditional guide to Elaphe taeniura housing, thermal gradients, humidity, ventilation, feeding, and health checks.
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Atlantic Central American Milksnake Care Guide: Temperature, Humidity, Feeding, and Health | Lampropeltis polyzona
A practical guide to solitary housing, thermal gradients, humidity and ventilation, feeding, shedding, and health monitoring for Lampropeltis polyzona.
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Rankin's Dragon Care Guide: Heat Gradient, UVB, Diet and Health | Pogona henrylawsoni
A practical, evidence-aware guide to housing one Rankin's dragon, measuring heat and UVB, feeding, hygiene and health checks.
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Spur-thighed Tortoise Care Guide: Space, Heat, UVB, Diet and Dormancy | Testudo graeca
Practical care for Testudo graeca: adult space, measured heat and UVB gradients, humidity, varied plants, health checks and lineage-specific dormancy cautions.
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Diamondback Terrapin Care Guide: Brackish Water, Filtration, UVB and Feeding | Malaclemys terrapin
A measured care guide to adult space, water quality and salinity, basking and UVB, diet and health records for Malaclemys terrapin.
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Sudan Plated Lizard Care Guide: Heat, UVB, Burrows and Feeding | Broadleysaurus major
A practical guide to enclosure space, heat gradients, UVB, moist hides, feeding, shedding and health checks for Broadleysaurus major.
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Peters’s Fish-Scale Gecko Care Guide: Hands-Off Transfers, Ventilated Humidity, and Skin Protection
A practical care guide to hands-off transfers, vertical space, thermal and humidity gradients, low UVB, insect feeding, and early response to skin injury in Peters’s fish-scale geckos.
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Halmahera Giant Gecko Care Guide: Vertical Space, Ventilated Humidity, and Skin-Safe Handling
A practical care guide for <em>Gehyra marginata</em> covering vertical housing, measured thermal gradients, ventilated humidity, UVB, varied feeding, supplementation, shedding, low-contact handling, cleaning, and warning signs.
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Sarasin’s Giant Gecko Care Guide: Broad Vertical Space, Cool Temperatures, and Ventilated Humidity Cycles
A practical guide to broad vertical housing, 22–26°C daytime temperatures, nighttime humidity peaks and daytime drying, low-level UVB, varied feeding, and health records for Correlophus sarasinorum.
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Fringed Leaf-tailed Gecko Care Guide: Vertical Space, Cool Temperatures, and Ventilated Humidity Cycles
A practical guide to vertical housing, 24–26°C days and 19–22°C nights, ventilated humidity cycles, UVB, feeding, hydration, cleaning, behavior, and health records for Uroplatus fimbriatus.
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Australian Thick-tailed Gecko Care Guide: Thermal Gradient, Moist Hide, and Feeding
A measurement-based guide to enclosure design, thermal gradients, moist retreats, UVB, feeding, handling, breeding, and health records for Underwoodisaurus milii.
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Scorpion-Tailed Gecko Care Guide: Rockwork, Bright Light, and Tiny Prey
Practical husbandry for Pristurus carteri, covering enclosure design, thermal gradients, UVB, ventilation, hydration, tiny prey, and cohabitation risks.
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Frog-Eyed Gecko Care Guide: Deep Burrows, Thermal Gradients, and Nocturnal Husbandry
A practical guide to floor space, burrow-holding substrate, measured temperature and humidity gradients, UVB, insect feeding, shedding, minimal handling, solitary housing, and health monitoring for <em>Teratoscincus scincus</em>.
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Common Collared Lizard Care Guide: Bright Light, UVB, and a Measured Rock Gradient
A measurement-driven care guide for Crotaphytus collaris covering life-stage space, basking surfaces and air temperatures, UVB and visible light, secure rockwork, feeding, hydration, handling, and health records.
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Schneider’s Skink Care Guide: Deep Substrate, Thermal Gradients, UVB, and an Omnivorous Diet
A practical Schneider’s skink care guide covering life-stage housing, deep substrate, measured thermal gradients, UVB, humid refuge, varied diet, shedding, handling, and health monitoring.
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Pink-tongued Skink Care Guide: Snail-Based Diet, Humidity Cycles, and Climbing Space
A practical Pink-tongued Skink guide to stage-specific housing, thermal gradients and sensor placement, UVB, humidity cycles, safe snail-based feeding, handling, and health checks.
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Neon Day Gecko Care Guide: Designing and Managing a Bright, Well-Ventilated Vertical Enclosure
A practical guide to vertical housing, thermal gradients, UVB, humidity and ventilation, diet, cohabitation, handling, and health monitoring for neon day geckos.
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Northern Caiman Lizard Care Guide: Large Aquatic Space, Powerful Filtration, and a Snail-Based Diet
An advanced practical guide to Dracaena guianensis care, including adult enclosure planning, aquatic space, filtration, temperature gradients, UVB, humidity, diet, handling, and health monitoring.
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Emerald Tree Skink Care Guide: Vertical Space, Bright Light, and Humidity Cycles
A practical Emerald Tree Skink care guide covering vertical enclosure design, a 35°C basking surface, UVI 2–3, humidity cycles, feeding, handling, and health records.
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Yellow-headed Gecko Care Guide: Vertical Space, Micro-Prey, and Humidity Cycles
A practical, measurement-led care guide for Gonatodes albogularis covering vertical enclosure design, thermal gradients, humidity cycles, UVB, micro-prey, handling, hygiene, and health monitoring.
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Peacock Day Gecko Care Guide: Vertical Space, UVB, and Humidity Gradients
Practical care for the peacock day gecko: vertical housing, temperature, humidity, ventilation, UVB, diet, shedding, and health checks.
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Argus Monitor Care Guide: Room-Sized Space and Deep Burrows for a Large Monitor
A practical care guide for the Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes), covering growth-stage housing, broad basking surfaces and thermal gradients, UVB, deep burrowing substrate, varied feeding, target training, cohabitation risks, and health warning signs.
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Chinese Cave Gecko Care Guide: Cool Temperatures, Humidity Cycles and Hides
A practical Chinese cave gecko guide covering enclosure design, a 27–28°C warm retreat, a 50–90% humidity cycle, UVI 1–2, feeding, shedding and health checks.
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Ocellated Skink Care Guide: Deep Substrate, Heat Gradients and Humidity
Practical care covering provenance, deep sandy soil, surface and air temperatures, measured UVB, nightly humidity, feeding, shedding, birth and health records.
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Electric Blue Gecko Care Guide: Vertical Space, UVB and Lawful Provenance
Practical care covering lawful provenance, escape-proof vertical housing, thermal gradients, measured UVB, humidity, tiny feeders, eggs and health monitoring.
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Jackson’s Chameleon Care Guide: Cool Nights, Ventilation and Hydration
Practical Jackson’s chameleon care covering vertical space, day–night cooling, measured UVB, misting, fog, drainage, feeding and health monitoring.
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Jeweled Lacerta Care Guide: Space, Strong Light and Burrow Management
A practical guide to jeweled lacerta care, covering enclosure size, measured heat and UVB, deep substrate, humidity zones, feeding, handling and health checks.
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Gidgee Skink Care Guide: Crevices, Heat Gradients and Social Management
A practical guide to space, basking and UVB measurement, crevices, mixed feeding, cohabitation risks and health checks for gidgee skinks.
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Hermann’s Tortoise Care Guide: Floor Space, Sunlight Gradients and a Forage Diet
Practical Hermann’s tortoise care covering adult space, deep soil, measured heat and UVB, hydration, dormancy, high-fiber forage, housing and health checks.
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Smooth Knob-tailed Gecko Care Guide: Deep Sand and a Desert Night
A practical smooth knob-tailed gecko guide covering space, quarantine, heat, night, low UVB, deep sand, humid burrows, feeding, handling and health checks.
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Fire Skink Care Guide: Building Deep Substrate and a Humidity Gradient
A practical fire skink guide covering enclosure size, measured heat and UVB, deep substrate, humidity and ventilation, varied feeders, handling and health checks.
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Mexican Alligator Lizard Care Guide: A Cool Arboreal Habitat
A practical guide to provenance, tall housing, cool thermal gradients, ventilation, humidity, UVB, food, and health records for Abronia graminea.
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Red-Eyed Crocodile Skink Care Guide: Humidity, Heat, UVB, and Feeding
Practical red-eyed crocodile skink care covering enclosure size, temperature gradient, humidity and ventilation, low-level UVB, substrate, feeding, handling, and health checks.
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Sandfish Skink Care Guide: Sand Depth, Heat Gradient, UVB, Feeding, and Health
A measured care guide for Scincus scincus covering enclosure size, sand depth, surface and cool-side temperatures, UVB, water, insects, shedding, handling, and health warning signs.
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Savannah Monitor Care Guide: Space, Deep Substrate, Heat, UV-B, Diet, and Daily Checks
A practical savannah monitor guide covering enclosure size, deep substrate, basking heat, UV-B, humidity, invertebrate feeding, handling, cleaning, and health checks.
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Green Basilisk Care Guide: Space, Water, Heat, UV-B and Daily Checks
A practical green basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons) guide to a large arboreal enclosure, water, thermal gradient, UV-B, feeding, shedding and health checks.
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Green Iguana Care Guide: Space, Heat, UVB, Diet, and Health
Practical green iguana care covering space by growth stage, thermal gradients, UVB, humidity, ventilation, leafy diets, handling, cleaning, and health warning signs.
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Emerald Tree Monitor Care Guide: Vertical Space, Heat, UVB, Humidity, and Feeding
Practical emerald tree monitor care covering enclosure size, thermal gradients, UVB, humidity, feeding, handling, and health monitoring.
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Frilled Lizard Care Guide: Vertical Space, Heat, UVB, Humidity, and Feeding
A practical guide to enclosure size, measured thermal gradients, UVB, humidity cycles, feeding, handling, cleaning, and health monitoring for Chlamydosaurus kingii.
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Gold Dust Day Gecko Care Guide: Vertical Space, Heat, UVB, Humidity, and Feeding
A practical guide to enclosure size, measured temperature gradients, UVB, humidity cycles, diet, handling, cleaning, and health monitoring for Phelsuma laticauda.
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Giant Madagascar Day Gecko Care Guide: Vertical Space, Heat, UVB, and Feeding
Practical guidance for vertical housing, thermal gradients, humidity cycling, UVB, feeding, supplements, cleaning, and health monitoring.
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Tokay Gecko Care Guide: Vertical Space, Climate, Feeding, and Safety
A practical Tokay gecko care guide covering vertical enclosure design, temperature and humidity gradients, UVB, feeding, handling safety, cleaning, and health monitoring.
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Painted Turtle Care Guide: Aquarium, Filtration, Basking, and UVB
A practical painted turtle care guide covering aquarium size, swimming depth, filtration, basking heat, UVB, water quality, diet, cleaning, handling, and warning signs.
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Emerald Tree Boa Care Guide: Arboreal Space, Climate, Feeding, and Safety
A practical emerald tree boa care guide covering arboreal enclosure design, perches, thermal gradients, humidity, ventilation, UVB, feeding, handling, quarantine, and health monitoring.
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Rhinoceros Iguana Care Guide: Space, Heat, UVB, Diet, and Safety
A practical guide to adult space, thermal gradients, UVB, plant-based nutrition, behavior, handling, and health monitoring for rhinoceros iguanas.
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Carpet Python Care Guide: Enclosure, Temperature, Humidity, Feeding, and Safety
A practical carpet python guide covering enclosure design, thermal gradients, humidity, ventilation, UVB lighting, feeding, handling, quarantine, and health monitoring.
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Common Musk Turtle Care Guide: Aquarium, Water Quality, Basking, and UVB
A practical Common Musk Turtle (Sternotherus odoratus) care guide covering enclosure size, water depth and quality, temperature, basking, UVB, diet, hygiene, cohabitation risks, and health monitoring.
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Common Chuckwalla Care Guide: High-Temperature Basking, UVB, and Herbivorous Diet Planning
Practical guidelines covering spacious rock-style enclosures, surface and air temperature gradients, UVB measurement, humidity and ventilation, and herbivorous diet and health management for the Common Chuckwalla.
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Common Boa Care Guide: From Adult Enclosures to Temperature, Humidity, Feeding, and Safety
We have compiled practical guidelines for the Common Boa (*Boa imperator*), covering enclosure requirements by growth stage, temperature gradients, humidity and ventilation, UVB, feeding intervals, handling, and safety protocols for large snakes.
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Argentine Black and White Tegu Care Guide: Space, Temperature, UVB, and Omnivorous Diet
This Tegu care guide outlines requirements for adult enclosure space, spacious basking areas, temperature gradients, humidity and UVB levels, deep substrate, omnivorous diets tailored to growth stages, and safe handling practices, all based on actual measured conditions.
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Sulcata Tortoise Care Guide: Space, Temperature, UVB, and High-Fiber Diet
A practical guide to long-term care for Sulcata tortoises—which can exceed 100kg as adults—covering outdoor enclosures and burrow-proofing, temperature gradients and UVB, hydration for juveniles, grass-based diets, and signs of health issues.
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Brazilian Rainbow Boa Care Guide: Temperature, Humidity, Feeding, and Health
This guide details the requirements for Brazilian Rainbow Boas, covering adult enclosures, temperature gradients, humidity and ventilation, lighting, feeding, shedding, handling, and signs of health issues.
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Rosy Boa Care Guide: Temperature, Humidity, Feeding, and Health
A practical guide covering adult enclosure size, temperature gradients, low average humidity with a humid hide, substrate, feeding thawed rodents, handling, quarantine, and recognizing signs of distress.
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Kenyan Sand Boa Care Guide: Key Points on Temperature, Substrate, and Feeding
A summary of practical husbandry standards for Kenyan Sand Boas, covering enclosures, temperature gradients, humidity, substrate, diet, handling, and health checks.
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Red-Eared Slider Care Guide: Tank, Water Quality, Basking, and UVB
This is a responsible care guide summarizing requirements for adult Red-Eared Sliders—including enclosure space, water quality, basking temperature, UVB, diet, hygiene, and signs of health issues—along with specific measurement criteria.
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Red-footed Tortoise Care Guide: Temperature, Humidity, UVB, and Diet
This is a practical care guide covering adult enclosure requirements, a 32–35°C basking zone, 70–90% humidity, a UVI of 2–3, and step-by-step instructions on diet, water, quarantine, and health checks.
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California Kingsnake Care Guide — Enclosure, Temperature, Feeding, and Handling
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Uromastyx Care Guide
Guide to Uromastyx temperature, humidity, enclosure, diet, and health care
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Mourning Gecko Care Guide
Guide to temperature, humidity, enclosure, diet, and health care for Mourning Geckos
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Green Anole Care Guide
Guide to temperature, humidity, enclosure, diet, and health care for Green Anoles
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Crested Gecko Care Guide
A guide to temperature, humidity, enclosures, diet, and health care for Crested geckos
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Bearded Dragon Care Guide
Guide to temperature, humidity, enclosure setup, diet, and health care for Bearded dragons
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Blue-Tongued Skink Care Guide
Guide to temperature, humidity, enclosure setup, diet, and health care for Blue-Tongued Skinks
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Gargoyle Gecko Care Guide
Guide to temperature, humidity, enclosure, diet, and health care for Gargoyle geckos
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Ackie Monitor Care Guide
Guide to Ackie Monitor temperature, humidity, enclosure, diet, and health care
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Veiled Chameleon Care Guide
Guide to temperature, humidity, enclosure, diet, and health care for Veiled Chameleons
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Leopard Gecko Care Guide: Temperature, Humidity, UVB, Diet and Health
A practical leopard gecko care guide covering enclosure setup, temperature gradients, humidity, UVB, live-food nutrition, supplements, handling, records and veterinary warning signs.
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