Bearded dragon
Pogona vitticeps
Also called beardie, beardies.
Wants a big dry floor, strong UVB and a proper basking spot. One to an enclosure.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 50 cm
- Smallest sensible tank
- 400 L, at least 120 cm long
- Temperature
- 24 to 40 °C
- Humidity
- 30 to 40%
- Kept in
- ones or pairs
- Temperament
- semi-aggressive
- Eats
- insects and greens
- Swims
- near the bottom
- How hard
- moderate
- Lives
- about 12 years
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether bearded dragon fit the tank you have.