Green iguanas are easy to raise. Many lizards, geckos, snakes and other reptiles have relatively high requirements for food and environment, so they are difficult to raise. As a novice, if you want to try raising a lizard, the easier lizard to raise is the green iguana. The raising of green iguanas is not complicated, and their food and environmental requirements are not very high. They are reptiles that are more suitable for family raising.

How to raise a green iguana well:

1. Choose a suitable breeding tank

Usually most people choose to use a ready-made fish tank as a Breeding boxes, as these are the most readily available off-the-shelf terrariums. Green iguanas' breeding boxes can also be made of iron cages or wooden and glass ones. Directly using a fish tank has poor ventilation, and an iron cage is not conducive to heat preservation, so the best option is to use wood and glass as a green iguana breeding box.

2. Appropriate humidity and temperature

During the normal breeding period, it is best to control the temperature between 25 and 28 degrees, and then expand the breeding space and install lighting equipment to provide full Sky lighting. At the same time, to avoid dehydration of green iguanas, the humidity should be kept above 60 to 80%. It is best to choose two thermometers and hygrometers, one placed at the basking point and the other placed elsewhere.

3. Choose the right food

Green iguanas are purely vegetarian. You can prepare fresh mulberry leaves, rose petals, coriander leaves, and mustard greens without pesticides. Leaves, dandelion leaves, spinach, cabbage, chopped green peas, etc. However, try to feed less cauliflower, broccoli and other foods, which can easily cause thyroid disease. Generally, young green iguanas should be fed twice a day. When the body length exceeds 90 cm, they can be fed once a day.

4. Clean on time

The green iguana has a huge size, which means that the environmental space in which it lives must be large. In order to ensure the life and movement of the green iguana, its life The length of the space should be 2.5 times the body length. At the same time, the environment needs to be cleaned regularly to ensure that their living environment is clean and comfortable.