At arrangement of a terrarium it is necessary to defer to the taste how many to be guided by needs of animals who will lodge in the new house not so much. Wood animals need snags and branches, and digging it is necessary to fill a deep layer of earth. Combining biological requirements of pets with esthetic reasons of their owners, it is possible to issue a beautiful and functional terrarium.
Instruction
1. Choose suitable soil. It is very important aspect at registration of a terrarium: in the earth the animals hide, look for or dig in a forage, substrate holds moisture and gives food to plants. First of all be guided by an environment in which your pets at liberty live. Sand, and for forest – a coconut crumb, sawdust or peat well will be suitable for desert inhabitants. Consider that some animals quickly pollute habitats, emitting poisonous slime together with a dung. In such cases the used soil has to be convenient for change, cleaning and washing (a carpet "an artificial lawn", paper, expanded clay, gravel).
2. Arrange shelters that animals felt confident and could be protected reliably in holes, cracks, lodges. On open spaces, without having an opportunity to hide, pets have a stress that leads to deterioration in health. As shelters the coconuts or ceramic pots and flat dishes split in half perfectly are suitable for terrariums. It is convenient to rocky animal to hide in heaps of stones or clay crocks, however at construction of such constructions carefully check them for durability that your pet did not get under a rockfall. For wood snakes, monitor lizards, geckoes use the extended roundish pieces of bark. Some animals comfortably feel in the duplyanka and boxes established on walls or suspended to a terrarium roof. Get in specialized shop a ready lodge with the built-in heating, then your pet will be not only is reliably protected from others eyes, but also to receive heat necessary for it.
3. Issue side and back terrarium walls. This stage is most interesting and pleasant as the beginning fans, and skilled owners of pets as the scope for imagination and design decisions exactly here opens. As the easiest way use in advance acquired films or photowall-paper suitable on subject, attaching them to external walls of a terrarium. Such background can be replaced easily when changing style or settling a new animal, besides, these materials are not damaged by pets and are not afraid of moisture. By means of the artificial panels imitating natural materials create stony slopes, sandy or wood reliefs. These designs are easy both on weight, and on a way of fastening. Close up joints colourless silicone, then fodder insects will not get into places where it is possible to arrange the heater or an electrical wiring. Use the most effective, but also the most labor-consuming and financially expensive method – registration of a terrarium natural materials. It can be a pith tree, bark of rare trees, stones, panels from coconut fiber.
4. Create to animals conditions for movement on a terrarium: plant living plants, put plastic or artificial snags and branches, attach suspended designs. Pay attention to that elements of registration of a terrarium were safe, plants had no prickles and poisonous lacteal juice.