Reptile Husbandry Record
Record the parameters you are actually achieving against the ones you are aiming for, which is the difference between keeping a reptile and hoping.
Exotic and small pets · XP-04
A free printable bearded dragon care sheet — weight, basking and cool-end temperatures, UVB checks, live food, greens and supplements.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
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Keep the daily record for a species where the commonest serious illness comes directly from husbandry figures being wrong.
Bearded dragon keepers, from a first dragon to a collection.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: Feeding, supplements, weight, basking readings and brumation — the things that go wrong slowly.
Get the figures from a vet, not a printable. No temperatures, UVB figures, supplement schedules or feeding quantities are printed. Metabolic bone disease is the commonest avoidable illness in this species and it comes from exactly these figures being wrong. Get them from an exotics vet or a species-specific guide and write them at the top.
Write-on lines: Name · Age · Acquired · Targets and their source
Table, 11 rows: Date · Weight · Basking temp · Cool end · UVB checked · Live food · Greens · Supplement given · Toileted · Behaviour
Ruled lines: Brumation, shedding, vet visits and anything unusual
The sheet prints none, deliberately. Metabolic bone disease is common in this species and it comes from exactly these figures being wrong or the UVB being inadequate. Get them from an exotics vet or a species-specific guide and write them in the header.
That is a veterinary question that depends on the individual animal's age, weight and health. Record what happens; do not follow a generic schedule.
Record the parameters you are actually achieving against the ones you are aiming for, which is the difference between keeping a reptile and hoping.
Build a record of what the enclosure is actually doing across a day and a season, rather than the one reading you happened to glance at.
Keep a treatment history with the weight beside it, which matters more for exotics than for most species.
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