Desert landscape
The desert terrarium is mostly flat and has a large floor area.
Desert animals (lizards, scorpions and beetles) hardly climb but bury themselves in the sand.
Therefore, sand is an important basis for this type of terrarium.
Extreme temperature fluctuations are the order of the day in the desert.
During the day it can be between 30 and 60 ° C, while the temperatures drop to 15-20 ° C at night.
| Dry wood: | Desert woods, branches bleached by the sun, hollow cactus trunks, Opuwa wood, Mopani roots, coconut fibres, pieces of dried palm leaves |
| Dune landscape: | A mixture of sand and clay, stone or terrace slabs |
| Plants: | Dried grass or selaginella tufts |
| Ground: | Sand and loam mixture |
| Drinking bowl: | Line the bowl with pebbles |
Rock terrarium
The rock terrarium is like the dry habitat of a scree slope, a pile of stones or a rock slope.
Iguanas like to enjoy their time in spacious rock terrariums with climbing opportunities.
| Dry wood: | root |
| Pile of stones: | Place heavy stones & artificial rocks on the terrarium floor |
| Plants: | Little planting e.g. stonecrop, saxifrage, dry grass, blue fescue or succulents |
| Ground: | Gravel, sand or a mixture of clay and loam |
| Drinking bowl: | Line the bowl with pebbles |
Savannah terrarium
Savannas represent transition areas between tropical and desert climates.
The particular characteristics of the savannah climate are the rainy and dry seasons.
The driest savannah type is the thorn bush savannah.
In the dry savannah, there is more precipitation, whereas in the humid savannah there is the greatest precipitation.
The temperatures decrease from the thorn bush savannah, in which temperatures of approx. 25 – 35 ° C are reached over the course of the year, to the dry savannah with temperatures of 25 – 30 ° C to the wet savannah with temperatures around 25 – 28 ° C.
The temperature changes decrease between winter and summertime.
| Dry wood: | Grapevines, savannah wood, dry twigs, mini-shrubs, hollow roots |
| Pile of stones: | Location, caves (place heavy stones directly on the terrarium floor) |
| Plants: | Dry plants, pots with terrarium soil in the sand, succulents, dry grass, onion plants, stonecrop, eucalyptus, snake beard, agave plants, small prickly pear species, bow hemp |
| Ground: | Red sand |
| Drinking bowl: | Line the bowl |
Dry terrarium
Depending on the animal (chameleons inhabit dry forests), a dry terrarium is either high or flat.
Both artificial and natural furnishings are suitable for this.
| Dry wood: | Grapevines, savannah wood, dry twigs, mini shrubs, hollow roots |
| Pile of stones: | Location, caves (place heavy stones directly on the terrarium floor) |
| Plants: | Depending on the substrate you plant in the ground or in pots. Dry grasses that remain small, succulents, small shrubs, robust climbing plants such as ivy root, tree friend, window leaf, houseleek, sedum plant, stable climbing branches |
| Ground: | Substrate |
| Drinking bowl: | Line the bowl with pebbles |