| Common name |
Scientific name |
Temperature range required (degrees centigrade) |
Humidity (%) |
Diet |
| Snake |
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| Corn snake |
Pantherophis guttata |
25-30 |
30-70 |
Rodents |
| Royal python |
Python regius |
25-30 |
50-80 |
Rodents |
| Common boa |
Boa constrictor imperator |
28-30 |
50-80 |
Rodents |
| Rat snake |
Elaphe species |
25-30 |
30-70 |
Rodents |
| Milk and king snakes |
Lampropeltis species |
22-30 |
40-60 |
Rodents |
| Lizard |
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| Leopard gecko |
Eublepharis macularis |
25-30 |
30-40 |
Insects |
| Bearded dragon |
Pogona vitticeps |
25-35 with basking area of 38-42 |
20-40 |
insects and greens |
| Iguana |
Iguana iguana |
25-35 |
75-100 |
Vegetables and some fruit |
| Chinese/Green water dragon |
Physignathus cocincinus |
24-28 |
70-100 |
Insects, offer vegetables |
| Blue tongue skink |
Tiliqua species |
20-28 |
25-40 |
Vegetables with some insects and rodents |
| Yemen Chameleon |
Chameleo calyptratus |
21-35 |
75-80 |
Insects |
| Chelonia |
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| Hermanns Tortoise |
Testudo hermanni |
20-28 |
30-50 |
Varied vegetables and non-toxic weeds |
| Horsefield Tortoise |
testudo horsfieldii |
20-28 |
30-50 |
Varied vegetables and non-toxic weeds |
| African spur thigh/Sulcata |
Geochelone sulcata |
25-35 |
40-60 |
Varied vegetables and non-toxic weeds |
| Leopard Tortoise |
Geochelone pardalis |
25-35 |
40-75 |
Varied vegetables and non-toxic weeds |
| Red foot Tortoise |
Geochelone carbonaria |
21-27 |
50-70 |
Varied vegetables and some insects |
| Red eared slider |
Trachemys scripta elegans |
24-30 (water) 28-30(basking platform) |
100 |
Aquatic invertebrates, fish, aquatic plant material |
