Vivarium Temperature and Humidity Log
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.
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Reptile Husbandry Record
A free printable reptile care sheet — your husbandry targets and their source at the top, then daily temperatures, humidity, feeding and behaviour.
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2 pages. 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
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Record the parameters you are actually achieving against the ones you are aiming for, which is the difference between keeping a reptile and hoping.
Who it is for
Keepers of snakes, lizards, geckos, tortoises and any reptile with a controlled environment.
How to use it
- Write the species and the source of your targets before anything else.
- Measure with a digital probe at animal level, not a dial stuck to the glass.
- Record readings you were not happy with — those are the useful ones.
- Take a fortnight of readings to an exotics vet rather than a description.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: One page per animal — the parameters you are working to, then what was actually measured, fed and observed.
Your targets go in the box. We print none.. No temperatures, humidity levels, UVB figures or feeding frequencies are printed on this sheet and none are implied. They are species-specific, they differ between reputable sources, and getting them from a generic printable is how animals are harmed. Get your targets from a specialist vet or a species-specific care guide, write them in the box below, and record against them.
How to use this sheet
- Write the species and the source of your husbandry targets before anything else.
- Measure with a probe or digital gauge at animal level, not with a dial stuck to the glass.
- Record what you measured, including the readings you were not happy with.
- Take the sheet to an exotics vet — a fortnight of readings is worth more than a description.
The animal and its setup
Write-on lines: Species · Name or ID · Sex · Acquired · Enclosure size · Heating method · UVB type and age · Substrate
Targets you are working to — and where each figure came from
Table, 6 rows: Parameter · Your target · Source · Reviewed on
Page 2
Daily and weekly record
Table, 17 rows: Date · Warm end · Cool end · Humidity · Fed · Water changed · Spot clean · Behaviour and appetite · Notes
Questions
Why are no temperatures or humidity levels printed?
Because they are species-specific and getting them wrong is the commonest cause of avoidable illness in captive reptiles. There is no set of figures that would be correct for a corn snake, a bearded dragon and a crested gecko, and a printable that pretended otherwise would do harm. Get your figures from a specialist vet or a species-specific guide.
Where should I measure the temperature?
At the animal, not at the glass. A dial thermometer on the wall of a vivarium and a probe at basking height will give very different readings, and only one of them describes what the animal is experiencing.
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