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CITES II
Gekkonidae

Lined day

Phelsuma lineata

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. reptifiles.com

Photograph: Lennart Hudel · CC BY

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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Drag the sun. The sheet states a night temperature, so the rail follows it.

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warm end28–30 °C
cool end25–27 °C
Humidity50–80 %
Diet4 days

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
25–27°Cool side
28–30°Warm side
20–24°Night

Day: a real gradient, 28–30°C warm against 25–27°C cool, so the animal chooses. Night: 20–24°C.

Why

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

The sheet stateswarm 28-30 °C / cool 25-27 °C / night 20-24 °C

Humidity

50–80%Target RH

The sheet stateshumidity lined day geckos do best in a moderate- to high-humidity environment, with an average humidity of 50-80% as measured by a digital probe hygrometer with the probe placed in the middle of the enclosure.

UVB

T8 6%required

The sheet statesas a rough estimate, to provide appropriate uvb to a lined day gecko, you will need one of the following lamps, depending on the enclosure's height:  26w zoo med reptisun 5.0 — 2-4" / 5-10cm  18" zoo med t8 reptisun 5.0 — 2-4" / 5-10cm  18" arcadia t8 forest 6% — 2-4" / 5-10cm  arcadia shadedweller arboreal kit ...

Identity

Family / Order
Gekkonidae / Squamata

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
warm 28–30 °C / cool 25–27 °C / night 20–24 °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.

Diet

Feeding rhythm

every 3.5 dAs an adult
8Meals in 28 days

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window. The sheet gives several ages on one line; this is the adult figure.

Why

The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.

The sheet stateshow often lined day geckos need to eat depends on age:  juveniles (0-6 months) — insects daily, cgd every other day  subadults and adults (>6 months) — insects 2x/week, cgd 1x/week crested gecko diet (cgd) must be offered via a wall-mounted feeding ledge, not placed on the ground.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause tempwarm 28-30 °C / cool 25-27 °C / night 20-24 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause tempwarm 28-30 °C / cool 25-27 °C / night 20-24 °C
A thermometerbecause tempwarm 28-30 °C / cool 25-27 °C / night 20-24 °C
A way to check the night figurebecause tempwarm 28-30 °C / cool 25-27 °C / night 20-24 °C
A hygrometerbecause humidityhumidity lined day geckos do best in a moderate- to high-humidity environment, with an average humidity of 50-80% as measured by a digital probe hygrometer with the probe placed in the middle of the enclosure.
UVB 6-6% (T8), stated as requiredbecause uvbas a rough estimate, to provide appropriate uvb to a lined day gecko, you will need one of the following lamps, depending on the enclosure's height:  26w zoo med reptisun 5.0 - 2-4" / 5-10cm  18" zoo med t8 reptisun 5.0 - 2-4" / 5-10cm  18" arcadia t8 forest 6% - 2-4" / 5-10cm  arcadia shadedweller arboreal kit ...
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

Others in this group

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.