Care Sheet for Mountain Horned DragonsAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 2.42 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 06/19/2005 |
Main Category: | Lizards |
Sub Category: | Mountain Horned Dragons |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Horsegurl1000 |
Years Experience: | 3 to 5 Years |
Species: | Mountain Horned Dragons |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | No other Species |
Sexing and Characteristics: | The Males usually have horns right behind their eyes, the Females do not. If your Dragon doesn’t have horns look closely and if it has a bump or a cut where the horns might have been it is a Male. Also if you look at their underside where the tail attaches to the body their is an anal gland, if your lizard is a male it will have two buldges right above that with a valley between them, if your dragon is a Female their will be no buldges and no valley. |
Mostly Active During: | Day |
Substrate and Water Needs: | For Substrate you can use coconut sreddings, bark, wood, moss, sand but preferably not a artificial kind, and potting soil.
If you have babies that are less than a month old I would prefer using coconut shreddings or potting soil. If you use artificial sand they may eat it for calcium and it can clog up their resperatory and digestive systems.
For water you can find rock water dishes at mainly any Pet Store. For Sexually Mature Adults you can buy a dish about 1 to 2 Inches deep. For Juviniles I would suggest buying a shallower one or they might drown themselves. Always have something they can climb out on like a stick or a big rock or they could drown. |
Lighting and UVB: | I use a special Basking Light that I attach to a desk and set it over one side of the tank. For the Bulb I use a UVB Bulb and it seems to work. NEVER leave the light on to long or it could burn or catch fire. I usually cut mine of at about 8 or 9 pm. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | For Dragons the Temp. should stay atleast between 75 and 80 degrees F. 85 degrees at the most for daytime Temp. For Nightime the temp should be about 65 to 70 degrees F. No lower. The humidity should stay about 80%. I mist the tank with a regular garden Mister about two to three times a day. If you put a water bowl under your basking light the natural occurance of evaporation will add a lot to the humidity. |
Heating and Equipment: | For Heat I use the Basking light at one end of the Tank/Cage try to keep it on for at least 12 hours. A Basking light can be purchased at and Pet Store. If there is a PetsMart near you I find they have the best products for Lizards and other Reptiles. To keep track of the temp. buy to Thermometers and place one at each end. The Temp at the heated end should be about 76-79 and the one at the non-heated end should be about 73-75. |
Caging Provided: | I have my Dragon in a 30 Gallon Tank. If you have two or more Dragons I suggest that you atleast have a 50 Gallon tank or more. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | Dragons will mainly eat Mealworms, Silkworms, Roaches, Kingworms, Earthworms, and Crickets. I suggest you don’t buy Crickets because they have a lot of exoskeleton and they don’t have a good Calcium supplement. Also with Crickets, Dragons have a very slow digestive system so crickets would not be the best thing. I feed my Dragon Kingworms as they are high in Calcium and have very soft shells so they are easier to digest. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | A calcium supplement provides Calcium nutrition that a growing Lizard needs. I would recomend giving a Juvinile Dragon a calcium supplement 3-4 times a week and giving an Adult Dragon a Calcium supplement 1-2 times a week or every other week.
Vitamin supplements provide nutrition and vitamins to a healthy or sick Dragon, I give my MHD a vitamin supplement once every other week. For Juviniles I would give them a Vitamin supplement 2-3 times every other week. |
Maintenance: | Mountain Horned Dragons are Pretty Low maintenance besides cleaning up their droppings every other day and cleaning their water bowl every other day. Also when you have your Dragon on a pretty steady diet feed him every other day. Don’t under feed them though. Also never forget to give them their supplements. |
Some Words on this Species: | This species is a very fun and Educational species. They are typicaly lazy and sometimes won’t move around except to feed and drink. They are mainly good Tempermented and will usually let use hold them. But remember they are wild animals and anything could happen. So if you do decide to get a mountain dragon or already have one I hope you enjoy them and will care for them like I do mine. |
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