Habitat Temperatures/humidities for All/many Popular Reptiles

[kebmsmith]

Folks, I'm working on a searchable web site in which I'd like to have compiled the basking, daytime, and night-time ideal temperature and humidity ranges for every popular pet reptile someone might want to seek information on. Does that already exist somewhere in a nice tabular format? If you can refer me to a vet reference, or a wiki-like site that has this info it would be much appreciated and save me a bunch of tedious research :-)

Thanks very much for your inputs.
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Kevin Smith

[jarich]

Nothing like that I am aware of. Though if you are creating it and want it to be taken seriously, I think Id be careful calling research 'tedious'. ;)

[KORBIN5895]

So what happens if we decide to give you bad advice? How would you even know?

[Terranaut]

Why not just sticky the best caresheets for each animal in their sections? Can we do this?

[kebmsmith]

@jarich: You're right. Bad choice of words. Just looking for a starting point. Thanks for your feedback.

@korbin5895: I'll assume that my poor choice of words in part led to your flippant and dismissive reply. Perhaps we can get off to a better start.

@Terranaut: Thanks for your constructive advice. I'll go searching for care sheets and this might be a great start for the data I'm looking for!
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Kevin

[Roman]

Hello Kevin,

you might take a look at the following document. It is an official guide line for keeping reptiles. It was published by our ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in 1997. This publication was a cooperation of ministerial staff, animal right groups and some representatives from the DGHT (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde - the German Herpetological society). It represents the minimum requirements for keeping each species. Obviously it is written in German, but after some pages with some preliminary text are tables which are easy to read and cover a lot of commonly kept reptiles

The tables are separated by group

Echsen = Lizards
Schlangen = Snakes
Krokodile = crocodiles
Schildkröten = turtels and tortoises

The columns are

- Name (scientific name)
- short description of the habitat and the geographical origin of the species (e.g. tropical, high humidity, arboricol, )
- Enclosure size (L x W x H, in reference to the length of the animal. E.g. if a snake is 4 ft long and the size should be 1,0 x 0,5 x 0,5 the enclosure should be 4 x 2 x 2 ft). For Lizards it is the enclosure size for 1,1, the length is head and body without tail, for the snakes it is the total length nose to tail end
- Basic temperature (in Centigrade) Tag/Nacht = day/night
- Max temperature basking place (in Centigrade)
for Lizards
- possible group mix 1,x = 1 male, several females plus possible life span e.g. (15-20) years
- remarks (sometimes there is a recommendation for the humidity = "Luftfeuchtigkeit")

This might give you a good starting point.

http://www.bmelv.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/Landwirtschaft/Tier/Tierschutz/GutachtenLeitlinien/HaltungReptilien.pdf;jsessionid=237C1F1AE9C2071DF4 B537C36A5669EE.2_cid296?__blob=publicationFile

Roman

[kebmsmith]

Fantastisch! Vielen Dank.

(Und dank "Google Translate")
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Kevin

[Terranaut]

According to the charts my carpets need a 8x4x8 :)