Topics like drainage, aeration, pH balance, resistance to breaking down, and the ability to support flora + microfauna life long term should all be considered when choosing a vivarium substrate. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Our glass terrariums are carefully packaged with box of tough cardboard and thickened reinforced foam for transportation. Not only are they small and fun to watch, but they’re also intelligent, easy to care for, and very friendly. So I brought it in, pulled the tank out of retirement (it had become a storage bin of sorts - a rather shameful demise), ramshackled together some houseplants and tried to make the little bugger feel comfortable.

This way you can offer the best enclosure, whether that’s a 10-gallon, a 100-gallon, or anything in between! Rock Ridge is a terrarium background that offers a combination of decorative landscaping with activity and rest areas for climbing lizards and tree frogs. Once a month she would sit us down and let the anoles walk around and say hi to us… Fearless little lizards, they were. Glass also maintains the correct heat gradient more safely and easily maintaining the correct heat gradient is critical to reptiles and amphibians’ well-being as they use external heat sources in their environment to regulate their body temperatures. The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings.This unit is not watertight and should not be used for animals that need to have standing water in their enclosures.

Inappropriate substrates will compact over time and will not support plant, fungi, microbes, or microfauna as effectively as our vivarium substrate will. Also, crested geckos are arboreal and love to climb so you need to prioritize the height of the tank over the length. Our substrate blends use pet grade fir bark, pet grade coconut fiber, pet grade cypress mulch, AAA-Grade New Zealand Sphagnum (milled in-house), and OMRI certified Peat Moss.

When people look to adopt a small reptile pet, leopard geckos are often the first that come to mind.