1. Green iguanas can grow to 1.5-2m in three years. Can you make room for such a big guy?

2. Green iguanas come from tropical rain forests and need enough temperature to grow healthily. Can you provide it with insulation?

3. It needs UVB irradiation, vitamins and calcium supplements, and all kinds of vegetables and equipment in the feeding box, which requires a lot of money.

It takes a lot of time to clean up the feces and food residue for it every day.

Personally, I think the most important thing is its nest

Iguana's mansion

1, material of feed box

Usually, most people use a fish tank as a feeding box for iguanas, because it is the easiest to buy and the most ready-made. You can also use iron cages as feeding boxes, or you can use wood and glass windows as feeding boxes. If you use the fish tank directly, the ventilation is not good. Using iron cages is not conducive to heat preservation.

2, the size of the feeding box

If you have enough space, you should provide as large a feeding box as possible. Iguanas belong to arboreal animals. They spend most of their time in trees outside. When they are young, they have relatively more activities on the ground, so they will climb more and more as they get older. Therefore, the feeding box should be made higher, not longer. The following are the minimum dimensions of the feeding box: the height is equal to its body length (including the tail), the length is 65438+ 0.5 times its body length, and the width is 2/3 of its body length. So iguanas can climb, walk and turn around more freely. If the space is too small, it will become depressed.

Step 3 feed the toys in the box

It is best to provide branches in the box for iguanas to climb. Branches should be thicker than the body of an iguana. Tilt the branches in the box.

4. Heating and lighting

Many people solve the problems of heating and lighting at the same time. Incandescent lamps can be used for both heating and lighting. Setting the lamp in a corner of the box can create an environment with changing temperature gradient in the box. Directly below the lamp is equivalent to a sunbathing place, where iguanas can keep warm in the morning. It is best to place thermometers in different positions of the feeding box so as to know the temperature of the whole box. Generally speaking, the coldest place in the box should be around 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Generally speaking, an iguana needs an internal temperature of 88 degrees Fahrenheit for at least 10 hour a day to ensure its normal digestive function. It is best not to put the lamp directly in the box, because it is easy for iguanas to climb on the lamp and cause burns. Iguanas rely on bacteria in their bodies to digest food, and bacteria need a relatively high temperature environment to function, so it is necessary to ensure sufficient temperature, otherwise iguanas will be malnourished due to indigestion.

5. ultraviolet rays

It is very important for iguanas to get ultraviolet rays. They need to synthesize vitamin D3 in the skin by ultraviolet irradiation, and D3 promotes the absorption of calcium. Sunshine is the best choice. If you really can't get sunshine, you must prepare ultraviolet lamps (especially UVB lamps) for them. Be careful not to irradiate your iguana with ultraviolet rays through glass or plexiglass, because these substances attenuate ultraviolet rays very much, and a thin layer of glass can remove 95% ultraviolet rays. You shouldn't look at ultraviolet lamps with your eyes, because too strong ultraviolet rays are harmful to people.

6. Illumination period

The photoperiod is simply how long an iguana needs to be exposed to light every day. It is generally recommended to irradiate 14 hours with lamps and ultraviolet rays every day. However, it must be ensured that it is dark at night. If the light is on for a long time, it will make iguanas nervous.

7. Mat materials

The selection principle of padding is easy to clean and dry. Many people like to use newspapers as cushions because they can be thrown away when they are used up. In short, do not use wood chips, sand and other substances that iguanas are easy to swallow by mistake.

8. Humidity

Iguana is a lizard that lives in high temperature and high humidity environment in Central and South America. Higher humidity is good for their skin, but it is difficult to maintain high humidity in artificial breeding environment, not only because the equipment for maintaining high humidity is complicated, but also because it is difficult to maintain hygiene in this high temperature and high humidity environment. Because it is easy to breed bacteria under the action of high temperature and humidity and food and excrement.

9. Ventilation equipment

Ventilation is often neglected. If it is a feeding box made of barbed wire, ventilation is certainly not a problem. Even a glass jar with a glass cover can be used, but the glass jar with a completely sealed cover for fish farming can't be used. If you want to use a steel cylinder, it is best to use a steel cylinder with a vent hole on the side, which will have good ventilation.

There is no consequence of being bitten. It is non-toxic. Sneak in and grab your neck to avoid being bitten by it.