01
Thermal gradient
A measured warm end and cool end, so the animal can choose its own temperature. Checked at the surface, not in the air.
Life
Reptiles
Husbandry is a monitoring problem with a living dependency. Get the gradient, the humidity and the feeding interval right and almost everything else takes care of itself. Get them wrong slowly and you will not notice until it matters.
Approach
Instrument everything
Every enclosure gets measured rather than estimated. Surface temperature at the basking spot and at the cool end, ambient humidity, and a thermostat with a backup cutoff on anything that produces heat. A thermometer that reads one number for the whole enclosure is not telling you what you need to know.
Feeding, sheds, weights and defecation go into a log. The value is not any single entry - it is being able to answer “is this normal for this animal?” with evidence instead of a guess.
This is the same discipline as the rest of the site, applied to something that cannot tell you when it is uncomfortable.
- Animals kept
- Not published
- Species
- Not published
- Enclosure type
- Not published
- Heating
- Not published
- Records kept since
- Not published
Husbandry
What actually gets checked
02
Humidity
Held in the range the species evolved for, with substrate and ventilation doing the work rather than daily misting.
03
Lighting
Appropriate UVB where the species needs it, on a fixed photoperiod, replaced on schedule - output falls long before the bulb stops lighting up.
04
Records
Weights, feeds, sheds and behavior, dated. A trend line is the earliest warning you get that something is wrong.
The animals
Currently kept
Not published yet
Species, enclosure details and individual profiles will go here. The markup pattern is the same entry list used on the technology page.
Gallery
Photography
You said you have plenty of these already - drop them straight in.
No photos yet
Coming soon.