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As an older person with a very middle heart, my dream since I was a child is to raise a dragon. But this dream was indeed a bit unrealistic, so later, I retreated to the second place and began to raise lizards.
I said that I am a very middle two person, and the lizard breeders generally choose lizards that look mighty and domineering, and when they shake their legs, they bring a hint of ancient desolation, such as the red-eyed eagle lizard.
I don't know if anyone who reads the article recognizes this creature, but many people are now interested in it and even go online to ask how to keep the red-eyed eagle.
If you check the Internet, you will find that the red-eyed hawk lizard still has a very large topic among the people who raise climbing pets.
This aspect is naturally due to the appearance of the red-eyed eagle lizard, a pair of eyes with the surrounding red circle, in the light of the appearance of cute, to the shimmering environment and show sensen domineering, plus that black skin black armor, really in line with people's imagination of the creature "dragon".
On the other hand, the difficulty of raising the red-eyed hawk lizard is very interesting. Some people think that the breeding of the red-eyed eagle lizard is very difficult, and even gave it the title of "Violent King". But there are also some people who believe that the difficulty of raising red-eyed hawk lizards is exaggerated, and it is not so difficult to raise them.
This can make many people who want to raise red-eyed eagle lizards difficult, public saying that it is justified, and the mother-in-law is reasonable, who should listen to?
As someone who has raised a red-eyed hawk lizard, my opinion is that if you leave aside those experienced breeders, the difficulty of raising a red-eyed hawk lizard is definitely very high for any novice.
Next, I will tell you why.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the native environment of the red-eyed hawk lizard</h1>
If we want to raise any kind of climbing pet, we must first understand their native environment, only in this way can we arrange a new breeding environment for them at home.
The red-eyed hawk lizard is mainly found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, both of which are located near the equator. It is mainly an equatorial rainy climate, with hot weather and heavy meteorological rainfall, and a large number of tropical rainforests on the surface.
The red-eyed hawk lizard, as an animal of the stone dragon family, lives in these tropical rainforests, and they have a certain climbing ability, generally living in the bushes near water sources.
Every morning or dusk, the red-eyed hawk lizard will also stay in the sun to promote the synthesis of calcium in the body through ultraviolet rays, which also leads to the survival of the red-eyed hawk lizard inseparable from ultraviolet radiation.
After understanding the native environment of the red-eyed hawk lizard, the next thing we have to do is to copy this environment to the home.
how do <h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > replicate the native environment? </h1>
The focus of raising red-eyed hawk lizards is to replicate the native environment, and the difficulty of raising red-eyed hawk lizards is also reflected in replicating the native environment.
Next, we will start from several aspects to explore this problem together.
1. Basic environment
The basic environment mentioned here refers to the materials and conditions we need to use to arrange the breeding environment of the red-eyed hawk lizard.
The red-eyed hawk lizard is a semi-aquatic lizard, and the rearing environment should also be a half-water, half-land environment, but the depth of this water should not be too deep, because they can't actually swim. (Here I want to spit a word, can not swim and stay at the water's edge every day, the red-eyed eagle lizard is really a master of the death world)
In addition, the red-eyed hawk lizard prefers a larger breeding space, generally speaking, a 60 *40 *40 or 50 *50 * 50 breeding environment is enough to accommodate 2 to 3 red-eyed hawk lizards. As for the material of the feeding container, I personally recommend that you choose glass instead of acrylic boxes.
In the breeding environment, you can choose to use humus, moss, coconut soil and other moisturizing bedding, plus the red-eyed eagle lizard likes to dig, so the thickness of these bedding should be at least more than 10 cm.
Some people like to add some branches to the environment of the red-eyed hawk lizard for them to climb, which is good in itself, but if the top of the container is not covered, the red-eyed hawk lizard is most likely to escape through the branches.
2. Temperature and light
The origin of the red-eyed hawk lizard mentioned earlier is hot and rainy, so many people think that raising a red-eyed hawk lizard should maintain the high temperature in the environment, but this is actually incorrect.
The origin of the red-eyed hawk lizard is a typical rainforest climate, which is warmer but limitedly high.
When setting the temperature, we need to make a division of the ambient temperature of the red-eyed hawk lizard, which can be divided into night temperature and daytime temperature in terms of time, and can be divided into cold zone temperature and hot zone temperature from the range of temperature.
You can buy a ceramic lamp or other heating lamp placed on the top of the container, during the day the temperature of the cold zone in the entire environment should be between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius, and the maximum temperature of the hot zone can not exceed 30 degrees Celsius. At night, we should control the temperature between 17 and 20 degrees Celsius.
As for light, the red-eyed hawk lizard prefers to be active at dusk and early in the morning in its native environment, and although it has to absorb ultraviolet rays, the demand for ultraviolet rays is not very high. Therefore, in general, a rainforest-type UVB lamp (ultraviolet lamp) can solve its needs.
3. Humidity and ventilation
As a rainforest-type species, the red-eyed eagle lizard has very high requirements for humidity, in addition to the need for water in the environment, the mat needs to maintain humidity, and the humidity of the entire feeding environment is best maintained between 70% and 90%.
And the red-eyed hawk lizard likes the fog in the environment very much, so when raising the red-eyed hawk lizard, it is best to use a watering can to spray water mist regularly.
However, high humidity environments tend to breed large amounts of bacteria, which is not a good thing for the health of red-eyed hawk lizards. So when we create an environment, we must also ensure that it is ventilated.
I don't know if you have found that there is a paradox here, that is, raising red-eyed hawk lizards to pursue high humidity, but also need ventilation, but a ventilation will make the humidity in the environment drop. Therefore, when raising red-eyed hawk lizards, the most important thing is to maintain a balance between the ventilation of the environment and the humidity of the environment.
4. Food
In the wild, the red-eyed hawk lizard mainly feeds on insects and arthropods, so if you want to raise a red-eyed hawk lizard, you can feed them with bread worms, barley worms, crickets, and Dobia cockroaches.
But here I would like to say a few words, when it comes to eating, the "earth-making" nature of the red-eyed eagle lizard will be exposed again. Individual red-eyed hawk lizards have different levels of acceptance and preference for different feeds, which means that when feeding, everyone must feed according to the actual situation.
Coupled with the small size of the red-eyed eagle lizard itself, when we feed it, it is best to choose the feed that they can swallow in one bite.
The above content can fully support the difficulty of breeding red-eyed eagle lizards, such an environmental arrangement is not only costly, but the skills involved can completely dissuade 90% of novices. If you rush to breed, it is tantamount to killing the life of the red-eyed eagle lizard with your own hands.
Finally, I would like to say that in addition to the layout of the environment, there are several places that everyone should pay attention to when raising red-eyed hawk lizards.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > what else is important? </h1>
First of all, although the red-eyed eagle lizard is domineering on the outside, it is very cowardly and timid on the inside, so those who want to feed by hand must not be too hasty, and it is best to put the food in the environment at the beginning and wait for them to prey on their own.
However, although we can't feed it manually, we still need to observe the eating of the red-eyed hawk lizards to make sure that they really eat the food into their stomachs.
On the other hand, red-eyed hawk lizards will pretend to be dead when they encounter danger, so we should be careful about our behavior during the breeding process and never scare them.
Because if the red-eyed hawk lizard encounters too much fright, it may really change from pretending to be dead to really dead.
Again, for novices, the difficulty of raising red-eyed hawk lizards is very high. If you want to raise a climbing pet, you may wish to start with a simple leopard print palace, and first exercise your feeding skills.
After all, any animal is a life, bad breeding will only bring them a bad living environment, please think more before breeding, do not let our love become harmful.