Hello everyboddy.
I just looked at all the Terraria, enclosures and 'cages' (which is, in my opinion, not a name for a reptile enclosure, cage is for birds and dangerous dogs...)and I think there is a very big gap between Europian and American way of repetile enclosure building and arrangement. Thats why I'm a little bit shy to publice photo's of my own terrarium setup. I think it is not interesting for most of the members of this forum because my idea about set up a terrarium is completely different from most of the others here.
But after saying this its just honest to show where I'm talking about.
So here is a picture of my terrarium room:
All 6 terraria in use are for Asian pitvipers and completely atomatical controlled. Light, heath, fresch air and rain are controlled by thermostats and timers, rainsystem is controlled by a hygrostat. All animals are kept separated and put together in mating time.
Here's a photo of a bigger terrarium for an adult Trimeresurus stejnegeri.
With this kind of setup I have different benefit. I can go on hollyday for 2 or 3 weeks, I never have to clean the terrarium and never have to change the water. because it is constantly filtered and in motion. Because there are airbubbles in the waterpart the snakes go there for drinking, the bubbles come from an aquarium airpump. Ones in a week I'm one hour bussy to remove debris (and sheddet skin) with a spoon which have a long grip, and fill up the waterparts.
Besides the comfort I like to look at a small part of nature when I look into a terrarium. In fact, sometimes I think the plants and all the decoration is more important than the snakes....but no, at the end the snakes come first...!
I experiance the surching for a Trimeresurus vogeli between the green leaves in my terrarium as a thrill, sometimes it take 10 minutes to discover the animal...during that 10 minutes I'm not where I am but somewhere in a Malaysian or Indonesian jungle...
Greetings **** Visser.
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