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Agamidae

Magnus forest dragon

Hypsilurus magnusกิ้งก่าป่ายักษ์นิวกินี

Traceable. The figures above appear in the page we cite, which we opened on 10 Aug 2026. That means you can check them, not that we have confirmed they are right. bion.com.ua

Photograph: Светлана Царахова · CC0

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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warm end40 °C
cool end28 °C
Humidity60–65 %

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
28°Cool side
40°Warm side
24°Night

Day: a real gradient, 40°C warm against 28°C cool, so the animal chooses. Night: 24°C.

Why

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

The sheet stateswarm 40 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C

Humidity

60–65%Target RH

The sheet statesHumidity level is 60-65%.

UVB

Requiredrequired

The sheet statesWe use UVB 10.0 lamps with a simple incandescent lamp to provide a basking spot.

Diet
Diet consists of various insects (imago of crickets (two-spotted cricket Gryllus bimaculatus , house cricket Acheta domesticus , Jamaican field cricket Gryllus assimilis ), locusts ( Locusta migratoria , Shistocerca gregaria ) and cockroaches (Turkestan cockroach Shelfordella tartara ) of appropriate size (5-7 piece...

Identity

Family / Order
Agamidae / Squamata
Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
warm 40 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C

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

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 40 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 40 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 40 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C
A way to check the night figurebecause temp — warm 40 °C / cool 28 °C / night 24 °C
A hygrometerbecause humidity — Humidity level is 60-65%.
UVB, stated as requiredbecause uvb — We use UVB 10.0 lamps with a simple incandescent lamp to provide a basking spot.
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet states no size

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

bion.com.ua — lu le 2026-08-09GBIF distribution (checklist range) — read 2026-08-09

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What this sheet states

62%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 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.