How to Keep the Oriental Garden Lizard? Keeping Methods and Precautions

The Oriental garden lizard (Calotes versicolor) is a reptile of the genus Calotes in the family Agamidae, also known as the horse-mane snake, thunder god snake, and cockscomb snake. Class Reptilia. It mostly lives under sparse woodland and in shrubbery. So how do you keep an Oriental garden lizard?

1. Keeping environment

When keeping them in captivity, it is best to choose a terrarium measuring 150*80*20. The terrarium environment must be kept at a high humidity of 75%, with the temperature maintained at around 25°C to 30°C. At home, you can place the Oriental garden lizard on a balcony to ensure they get enough light. In addition, when the temperature drops, use a heating lamp to raise the temperature.

2. Feeding

The Oriental garden lizard likes to eat various insects such as crickets, grasshoppers, and beetles, spiders, etc., and occasionally eats some other small lizards. It also likes to lick water droplets from leaves to quench its thirst. In addition, note that it is best to feed foods like mealworms sparingly, because their protein content is too high, which is not conducive to their digestion and absorption.

The Oriental garden lizard is distributed in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Myanmar, Thailand, West Malaysia, the Maldives, and other places.