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    Care Sheet - Painted Agama

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    This care sheet provides information on keeping and caring for Painted Agamas, including: - Their scientific and common names as well as natural locations in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. - Details on sexing, temperatures, lighting, feeding, water, vitamins, and breeding for Painted Agamas. - They are diurnal, insectivorous lizards that can tolerate high temperatures but will seek shade above 38°C. Males establish territories and fight over females. - In captivity, the author has seen courtship from December to March, with eggs laid late December to March that hatch after 54-56 days at 31°C.

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    This care sheet provides information on keeping and caring for Painted Agamas, including: - Their scientific and common names as well as natural locations in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. - Details on sexing, temperatures, lighting, feeding, water, vitamins, and breeding for Painted Agamas. - They are diurnal, insectivorous lizards that can tolerate high temperatures but will seek shade above 38°C. Males establish territories and fight over females. - In captivity, the author has seen courtship from December to March, with eggs laid late December to March that hatch after 54-56 days at 31°C.

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    This care sheet provides information on keeping and caring for Painted Agamas, including: - Their scientific and common names as well as natural locations in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. - Details on sexing, temperatures, lighting, feeding, water, vitamins, and breeding for Painted Agamas. - They are diurnal, insectivorous lizards that can tolerate high temperatures but will seek shade above 38°C. Males establish territories and fight over females. - In captivity, the author has seen courtship from December to March, with eggs laid late December to March that hatch after 54-56 days at 31°C.

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    Care Sheet - Painted Agama

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    John Gamesby
    This care sheet provides information on keeping and caring for Painted Agamas, including: - Their scientific and common names as well as natural locations in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. - Details on sexing, temperatures, lighting, feeding, water, vitamins, and breeding for Painted Agamas. - They are diurnal, insectivorous lizards that can tolerate high temperatures but will seek shade above 38°C. Males establish territories and fight over females. - In captivity, the author has seen courtship from December to March, with eggs laid late December to March that hatch after 54-56 days at 31°C.

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    Painted agamas are a species of lizard found across parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. They can grow up to 10 inches long and males can be identified by a dark line of scales on their belly. They are active during the day and bask in temperatures of 35-40C.

    Males have a dark vertical line of raised scales on their underside, while females do not. Males also engage in head bobbing and leg waving displays to assert dominance and attract mates.

    Males establish territories and harems of multiple females. Courtship involves head bobbing, leg waving and dewlap flashing by males. Females lay clutches of up to 12 eggs between December and March which hatch after 54-56 days.

    Care sheet - Painted Agama

    Common Names: Somali Painted, bush Agama, Sling-Tailed Agama, Painted Agama
    Scientific name: Laudakia stellio
    Location: Greece & islands (inc. Cyclades, Rhodes & Corfu), Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt,
    Israel, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia
    Subspecies:

    L. s. stellio: (Saloniki: Cyclades (Mykonos Islands, Delos, Paros, Antiparos, Naxos),


    Sporades, Rhodes, Corfu)
    L. s. brachydactyla: (N Saudi Arabia, S Israel, Sinai Desert)
    L. s. cypriacus: (Cyprus)
    L. s. daani: (Salonika, many Aegean islands)
    L. s. picea: (SW Syria, S Lebanon, N Israel, NW Jordan)
    L. s. vulgaris: (N. Egypt)
    Size: 8-10
    Sexing: Sexing males and females is easy with this species; the males have a dark
    vertical line of raised scales on the underside of the belly. The females do not.
    Temperature: Basking temperature of 35-36C and a cooler end to 25C. A night time
    drop the temperature down to 23-25C and gives a good temperature gradient.
    Lighting: I used to use the Fluorescent UV tubes but found that the lizards were not very
    active except at feeding time so I changed over to the Mercury vapour lamp and what a
    difference it made. They became much more active and started courtship displays of head
    bobbing and leg waving and in general a lot more active. Their colours were also greatly
    improved and much brighter.
    Agamas are active during the day and are often found scampering around to snatch up
    their favourite foods. They can tolerate greater temperatures (35-40C) than most reptiles,
    but in the afternoon when temperatures reach around 38C (100F) they will settle into
    the shade and wait for it to cool down. Frequent fighting breaks out between males; such
    fighting involves a lot of bobbing and weaving in an attempt to scare the opponent. If it
    comes to blows, they lash out with their tails and threaten each other with open jaws.
    Many older males have broken tails as a result of such fights. Females may sometimes

    chase and fight one another, while hatchlings mimic the adults in preparation for
    adulthood. It is best to keep trios of one male and two females.
    Food: Agamas are mainly insectivores so feed them on Locusts, Cockroaches, Crickets
    as a treat Morio worms and Wax worms. Their incisor-like front teeth are designed for
    quick cutting and chewing of their prey. I offer them greens and chopped fruits should be
    offered once a week also.
    Water: It is best to spray them once a day just before the lights comes on. They will
    drink from the droplets from the walls rocks etc. They also get water from the food that
    they eat and are perfectly adapted to very dry conditions. A small water bowl can be
    placed at the cool end if desired but is not necessary.
    Vitamins: Dust the insects in Calcium+D3 powder five times a week and vitamins twice
    a week.
    Top Tip: Put the feeder insects into a plastic bag add a small amount of the calcium or
    vitamin powder and shake the bag gently this will coat the insects. Then slowly tip the
    insects into the vivarium leaving the excess powder in the bag which can be re used.
    Breeding:

    Picture 01 Clutch of eggs after 50 days average size of the eggs 33mm long

    Picture 02 Hatchling almost out of the egg day 54


    Most agamas are polygamous. Males may have a harem of six or more females in their
    territory for breeding. During courtship, the male bobs his head to Leg wave and dewlap
    flashing to impress the female. Occasionally, females initiate courtship by offering their
    hindquarters to the male and then running until he is able to catch up. The breeding
    season in the wild is typically March-May with eggs being laid in June-September during
    the season after the rains. Eggs are laid in clutches of up to twelve.
    In captivity my Painted Agamas are seen courting with lots of head bobbing, leg waving
    and flashing of the dewlap from the males. The females lay their eggs late December
    March and hatch after 54-56 days at 31C.
    John Gamesby (2 April 2011)

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