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Setup

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
24–31°Cool side
32°Warm side

A real gradient, 32°C warm against 24–31°C cool, so the animal chooses. The sheet states no separate night figure.

Why

Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswarm 32 °C / cool 24-31 °C

Enclosure and conditions

Enclosure

32 °C120 cm50 cm
warm side
50100150200 cm
120 × 50 × 50 cmWidth × depth × height
60dm² of floor
Substrate: not in our dataWater: not in our dataHides: not in our dataUVB: not in our data

Drawn from the stated numbers. Only what the sheet states is drawn inside.

Why

The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».

The sheet statesOne adult minimum about 120 x 50 x 50 cm heated semi-aquatic paludarium; another current source recommends 120 x 60 x 50 cm

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

What it needs

Enclosure at least 120 × 50 × 50 cmbecause Enclosure — One adult minimum about 120 x 50 x 50 cm heated semi-aquatic paludarium; another current source recommends 120 x 60 x 50 cm
A heat sourcebecause Temperature — warm 32 °C / cool 24-31 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause Temperature — warm 32 °C / cool 24-31 °C
A thermometerbecause Temperature — warm 32 °C / cool 24-31 °C

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation.

The species

CITES II is a global listing and holds in every country. National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

Questions & sources

Common questions

Is this one legal to keep here?

It is a protected species and CITES listed, so it must come with documents. Buy only papered captive-bred animals.

Is it a land turtle or a water turtle?

In between. It needs shallow water it can stand up in plus a good land area, because deep water can drown a weak one.

Why does it close up completely?

The lower shell has a hinge, so it can shut like a box. It does that when stressed and opens up again once left alone.

What does it eat?

Both plants and animals: greens, fruit, snails, worms and pellets.

Back to the Atlas My keep

https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/cuora-amboinensis

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What this sheet states

38%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 2 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, its place on the globe, the diet section, the sheet citing where it comes from. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 420 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.