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CITES II
Varanidae

Black tree

Varanus beccariiตะกวดต้นไม้ดำ

Part of this is not on the page we cite. We opened it on 10 Aug 2026 and some of the degrees above are not stated there. The values above may still be right, but we cannot show you where they came from, and nobody here has checked them against a second source. Anything about a sick animal goes to a qualified exotic vet, not to a page. lllreptile.com

Photograph: Ltshears · CC BY-SA

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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Drag the sun. The sheet states a night temperature, so the rail follows it.

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Temperature25–30°C

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
25–30°Cool side
22–24°Night
Warm side: not in our data

The cool side, 25–30°C, dropping to 22–24°C at night. This sheet states the cool side only. It gives no warm side or basking figure, so the hot end is not in our data. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet statescool 25-30 °C / night 22-24 °C

Identity

Family / Order
Varanidae / Squamata
Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
cool 25–30 °C / night 22–24 °C

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

Common questions

Can I handle it?

Expect scratches. They are fast, nervous climbers and the claws are needle sharp.

How big does it get?

About 90 centimetres to 1 metre, and most of that is tail.

What does it eat?

Mainly insects, plus the occasional small rodent or egg. It eats often for its size.

Is it difficult?

Yes. It needs a tall, well-planted, humid enclosure in a quiet room, and the price is high.

What it needs

A thermometerbecause temp — cool 25-30 °C / night 22-24 °C
A way to check the night figurebecause temp — cool 25-30 °C / night 22-24 °C
Not stated: The heat sourcethis sheet names only the cool side: « cool 25-30 °C / night 22-24 °C »
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet states no size

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

lllreptile.com — lu le 2026-08-04azeah.com — lu le 2026-08-04static1.squarespace.com — lu le 2026-08-04GBIF distribution (checklist range) — read 2026-08-09

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What this sheet states

46%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 3 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.