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CITES II
Boidae

Solomon Island Ground Boa

Candoia carinata

Photograph: Romain Boisseau · 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.

CITES II is a global listing and holds in every country. National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

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warm end27 °C
cool end21 °C
Humidity50–80 %

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
21°Cool side
27°Warm side

A real gradient, 27°C warm against 21°C cool, so the animal chooses. The sheet states no separate night figure.

Why

Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswarm 27 °C / cool 21 °C

Humidity

50–80%Target RH

The sheet states50-80 %

UVB

Requiredrequired

The sheet statesThere is no current proof that the animal requires UVB light, although some keepers prefer to provide UVB

Enclosure
A single adult must have a minimum of a 10-gallon tank
Diet
Most individuals will only eat lizards and frogs

Identity

Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
warm 27 °C / cool 21 °C
Humidity
50-80 %

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

Is this a captive-bred animal?

Ask every time, because many in the trade are wild-collected and those settle in much more slowly. We will tell you honestly which ours are.

Does it climb?

Yes, it is semi-arboreal. Give it low branches and cork as well as ground cover and hides.

Why is it not eating?

This species is often a slow, irregular feeder, and imported animals can take a long time to settle. Patience and a quiet enclosure help more than anything.

How big does it get?

Small, generally under a metre, and it stays fairly slender compared to the viper boa.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 27 °C / cool 21 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 27 °C / cool 21 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 27 °C / cool 21 °C
A hygrometerbecause humidity — 50-80 %
UVB, stated as requiredbecause uvb — There is no current proof that the animal requires UVB light, although some keepers prefer to provide UVB
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet describes the enclosure without a figure: « A single adult must have a minimum of a 10-gallon tank »

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

thetyedyediguana.com — lu le 2026-08-04speciesplus.net — lu le 2026-08-08gbif.org — lu le 2026-08-08

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What this sheet states

77%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 5 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: 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.