Reptile Husbandry API

Reptile-husbandry maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the keeper numbers behind a healthy vivarium, so the setup is right before the animal moves in. The enclosure endpoint turns an animal length and its habit into the minimum floor length, width and height: terrestrial snakes want a floor at least as long as the snake (a 48-inch corn snake → a 48 × 24 × 24 inch minimum, eight square feet of floor), arboreal species trade floor for height (an 18-inch chameleon → 27 × 18 × 36 inches, tall), and ground lizards and tortoises need far more floor than their body length. The uvb endpoint gives the UV-B target by Ferguson zone — the 1-to-4 classification from Baines et al. (2016) of how much sun a species basks in — returning the mean and basking UV-index ranges (zone 3 open baskers want a basking UVI of 2.9–7.4), and, if you pass a lamp UVI measured at a reference distance, an inverse-square estimate of the mounting distance for the right basking UVI. The feeding endpoint sizes prey from body weight and life stage: a meal of roughly 10–15 % of body weight, no wider than the animal, on an interval that lengthens with age — a 500 g adult snake takes a 40–60 g prey item every fortnight. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for reptile-keeper and herpetoculture apps, pet-store and breeder tools, vivarium-planning calculators, and care-sheet sites. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 compute endpoints. Educational husbandry estimates — not veterinary advice; research your exact species.