how tosetup a tropical terrarium for y6our reptile,amphibian,arachnid
are you ready to talk about the funnest habitat to setup?
tropical/aboreal dwelling reptiles include:
1. pacman frog
2. all tree frogs
3. land hermit crab
4. chubby and tomato frogs
5. scorpions and tarantulas
6. red footed tortoise
7. curly tailed lizard
8. frilled dragon
9. chinese water dragon
10. crocdile gecko
11. white line and golden geckos
12. crested gecko and gargoyle gecko
13. long tailed lizard
14. anole
15. all chameleons
******these reptiles have numbers beside them. those numbers are their nicknames if you will and i will be using them instead of their full names.*****
lighting...........................................................................................
#'s 6,7,8,9,10,13,14,and 15 need some thing called uvb and are diurnal which means they awake during the day and go to sleep at night just like us; they require a 12 hr uvb spectrum. uvb for reptiles is a light bulb found in petstores. tropical and aboreal reptiles require medium amounts of uvb so they need whats called a 5.0 uvb bulb which is just another word for medium amounts of uvb. the rest are nocturnal and do not need the uvb bulb but they do need what we call vitamin d3 which can be found at petstores. you put some of it in a container or a bag and dump the amount of insects your feeding your reptile that day into the bag/container... SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE the bag and they wil be covered in vitamin d3. do this twice weekly.
decorating...............................................................................................
remember its a tropical or aboreal enclosure and the following # need a tall tank : 2,10,11,12,13,14,15. 2,13 and 14 can have either but anyways the rest of those numbers need a long tank. all these reptiles do well in cocofibre but 9,15 can have reptile carpet and 3 can have aquarium gravel subsrates any ways because these are tropical reptiles you need to think tropical... what i mean is put things that have to do with rainfoests or tropical seetings into the terrarium. like fake or real plants(just make sure to water them) or tropical background paper even light brown food dishes. the possibilities are endless. it is very important to provide at least 1 hiding place in your terrarium; one thing thats always worked for a hideout for my reptiles is where you take several rocks that stand a little taller then your reptile and then find a flat surface rock; place the several rocks down first and then lay down the flat surface rock ontop of the other rocks.
tropical/aboreal dwelling reptiles include:
1. pacman frog
2. all tree frogs
3. land hermit crab
4. chubby and tomato frogs
5. scorpions and tarantulas
6. red footed tortoise
7. curly tailed lizard
8. frilled dragon
9. chinese water dragon
10. crocdile gecko
11. white line and golden geckos
12. crested gecko and gargoyle gecko
13. long tailed lizard
14. anole
15. all chameleons
******these reptiles have numbers beside them. those numbers are their nicknames if you will and i will be using them instead of their full names.*****
lighting...........................................................................................
#'s 6,7,8,9,10,13,14,and 15 need some thing called uvb and are diurnal which means they awake during the day and go to sleep at night just like us; they require a 12 hr uvb spectrum. uvb for reptiles is a light bulb found in petstores. tropical and aboreal reptiles require medium amounts of uvb so they need whats called a 5.0 uvb bulb which is just another word for medium amounts of uvb. the rest are nocturnal and do not need the uvb bulb but they do need what we call vitamin d3 which can be found at petstores. you put some of it in a container or a bag and dump the amount of insects your feeding your reptile that day into the bag/container... SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE the bag and they wil be covered in vitamin d3. do this twice weekly.
decorating...............................................................................................
remember its a tropical or aboreal enclosure and the following # need a tall tank : 2,10,11,12,13,14,15. 2,13 and 14 can have either but anyways the rest of those numbers need a long tank. all these reptiles do well in cocofibre but 9,15 can have reptile carpet and 3 can have aquarium gravel subsrates any ways because these are tropical reptiles you need to think tropical... what i mean is put things that have to do with rainfoests or tropical seetings into the terrarium. like fake or real plants(just make sure to water them) or tropical background paper even light brown food dishes. the possibilities are endless. it is very important to provide at least 1 hiding place in your terrarium; one thing thats always worked for a hideout for my reptiles is where you take several rocks that stand a little taller then your reptile and then find a flat surface rock; place the several rocks down first and then lay down the flat surface rock ontop of the other rocks.