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The Animal
Native to the arid woodlands and deserts of central Australia. Diurnal, basking, semi-arboreal behavior, and the body language — beard, arm-waving, head-bobbing — that tells you how your dragon is doing.
Care Library · Vol. IV
Bearded dragon.
Australia's desert dragon, and the most interactive lizard in the hobby. Volume Four of the Citadel Culebra Care Library.
Why this guide
A desert animal needs desert light. Most beardies are kept too small, too cool, and too dim — and slowly pay for it.
Real basking temperatures, real UVB, a real footprint, and a diet that shifts as the animal grows. The husbandry that prevents metabolic bone disease instead of treating it — written by keepers who raise them by the dozen.
What's inside
Every chapter.
02
Heat & Light
A 100–110°F basking surface, a true gradient across a 4×2×2 minimum footprint, and the linear UVB setup that is non-negotiable for this species.
03
Diet & Supplementation
The shift from insect-heavy juveniles to greens-forward adults, calcium and D3 scheduling, hydration, and the foods to avoid entirely.
04
Health & Longevity
Metabolic bone disease, impaction, atadenovirus, brumation, parasites, and the husbandry that takes a dragon well past ten years.
Web + EPUB
Read it the way you want to.
Full interactive web experience plus a downloadable EPUB for offline reference next to the enclosure.
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Common questions
Before you buy.
Bigger than the pet-store kit. We cover the minimum adult footprint, why floorspace matters more than height, and how to build the gradient a desert animal needs.
Linear T5 UVB, mounted and replaced on a schedule we lay out exactly. UVB is the single biggest health lever for this species and we treat it that way.
Yes. Care Library volumes are versioned — buyers get every future revision of the volume they purchased.
Care Library · Vol. IV
Get the guide.
Web experience + downloadable EPUB.