Can I keep it?
Setup
The numbers
Temperature
The cool side, 27–29°C, dropping to 18–24°C at night. This sheet states the cool side only. It gives no warm side or basking figure, so the hot end is not in our data. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet statescool 27-29 °C (80-85 °F) / night 18-24 °C
Humidity
The sheet states30-40%
UVB
The sheet statesT5 HO 10–12% across 2/3 length; replace ~6–12 mo
Part of this is not on the page we cite. We opened it on 10 Aug 2026 and some of the degrees above are not stated there. The values above may still be right, but we cannot show you where they came from, and nobody here has checked them against a second source. Anything about a sick animal goes to a qualified exotic vet, not to a page. petmd.com
Drag the sun. Bearded Dragon is Diurnal, so what it is doing changes with the light. The sheet states a night temperature, and the rail follows it.
Enclosure and conditions
Enclosure
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 states120 × 60 × 60 cm (4×2×2 ft)
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
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.
- Enclosure 120×60×60
- T5 UVB 10–12% + fixture
- Basking bulb + dome
- Thermostat/dimmer
- Tile/hardscape
- Hides + basking branch
- Calcium + multivitamin
- Feeder insects
Food
Diet
Feeding rhythm
Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window. This sheet states a figure for each age, so each age has its row.
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. A young animal's row is drawn only where the sheet gives one: working it out by dividing the adult interval would be inventing a ration.
The sheet statesDubia, crickets, BSF larvae · ~60% greens/veg; insects 2–3×/week
Daily life
Behaviour and handling
Health
Common health problems
When to see a vet
This is not veterinary advice. If red flags appear, consult a qualified exotic (herp) veterinarian. Quarantine new arrivals 30–90 days.
Red flags
- open-mouth breathing
- months of weight loss
- stargazing
- persistent regurgitation
The species
Identity
Adult size
True scale, against a 1.75 m person
Logarithmic, the same axis on every sheet
The size the sheet states for a grown animal.
Why
Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.
Morphs
12 morphs, with how each one is inherited. 2 of them carry a documented welfare cost, and those come first.
No known risk10colour and pattern only
How common this animal is
Relative Google search interest for the species as a pet, 2020. The scale is relative within the study: 100 is the most searched reptile it measured, not a count of animals. Reptiles only, and only the species the study measured. An absent value means the study did not measure that species, not that nobody keeps it.
Valdez JW (2021), Using Google Trends to Determine Current, Past, and Future Trends in the Reptile Pet Trade, Animals 11(3):676
NOT a measure of how many are kept. These filings count animals shipped for any purpose, including the food trade and laboratory supply, and they are United States records only. The three largest volumes in the source belong to a food frog, a bait species and the standard laboratory amphibian.
US Fish and Wildlife Service LEMIS declared wildlife import and export records, as compiled in the received dataset
Reproduction
Life course
Read from the lifespan and maturity the sheet states, for animals in care and not in the wild.
Why
The minimum commitment is the low end of that lifespan, and the reproductive window is what is left after maturity: both are subtractions on stated figures, not figures of their own. The sheet also reports a record of about 14 years; that is a reported maximum, not the range to plan for.
Good to know
- Waves an arm to signal submission; bobs the head to assert dominance.
- Can shift color slightly with temperature and mood.
- One of the most popular pet lizards worldwide: dog-tame personality.
- One of the most popular pet lizards worldwide — dog-tame personality.
The way of life is written in this sheet, word for word. The climate words summarise the two figures above them, they do not add to them.
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
Do they need UVB?
Yes: non-negotiable for health.
Can two live together?
Best kept alone.
Why is it waving its arm?
A natural social signal: normal.
Going deeper
Research dossier: read at the source, not yet cross-checked by our team. Every figure links to the page it was read on.
In the wild
Wild ecology
Habitat behavior
Natural behaviors
- ground use
- elevated perching
- male territorial display from elevated perches during breeding season
- female digging before oviposition
Peer reviewed natural history synthesispmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Field diet
Peer reviewed field dietpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Growth and body condition
Body condition
Peer reviewed abstract onlyresearchgate.net
Growth weight body condition evidence
Adult clinical samples
Weight g range
101-547
Svl cm range
15.1-22.7
Peer reviewed clinical samplepmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Peer reviewed clinical samplepubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bcs status
Deep evidence with explicit limit
Health and welfare
Health and biosecurity
Emergency study 2025
Common presentations
Nonsurvival associations
Veterinary retrospectivepubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Breeding
Reproduction deep
Wild reference
Peer reviewed wild referencepubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Captive reference
Peer reviewed clinical referencepubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sex reversal
Peer reviewednature.com
Light and food: the evidence
Nutrition deep
Evidence review 2023
Peer reviewed nutrition reviewpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Supplement growth study 2026
Peer reviewed experimentalpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Uvb d3 study 2010
Peer reviewed experimentalpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Evidence
Uvb trial
Academic experimentalpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sex reversal
Academicnature.com
Current vet care
Adult enclosure cm
Veterinary careroyalveterinarycenter.com
Genetics and morphs
Genetics
Priority traits
- Leatherback/Silkback welfare
- Hypo
- Trans
- Zero
- Witblits
- Dunner
- Paradox non-Mendelian claims
- Red/Citrus line-bred traits
Scalation welfare
Phenotypes
- wild-type
- Leatherback
- Silkback
Peer reviewed experimentalpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wild-caught or captive-bred
Trade history provenance
International founder history
Peer reviewed trade reviewpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Modern trade context
Peer reviewed trade contextpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/pogona-vitticeps
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What this sheet states
Every field this product runs on is stated here. That is not a claim that the values are right: it says what the sheet states, not whether it is true. Whether a human has read it is the badge at the top of this page.
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.