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Scott W · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:55 am Post subject: Naturalistic vivs?

How many people use naturalistic looking setups for their animals?

I'm guessing that most lizard keepers do but most snake keepers don't? am I right or wrong?

I have fairly natural set ups for all my venomous snakes but not for my rosy boas.
As for lizards, the Fijis have natural looking vivs, as do some of the monitors.
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varanus · Key Member Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 400

well anything I keep in a viv I try to but tubs are functianal due to lack of options

Sonny Hynes · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:

I always use naturalistic vivs, except with hatchlings.

leonie · I'm new here... Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

ive usually found higher viable spawn/froglet survival when using a biospheric tank apart from cuban treefrogs who dont seem to mind one setup ot the other! i only keep natural tanks now
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photographymatt · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject:

I have a "natural" setup for my green cat eye snake, which seems to do him good ie, he has places to hide/climb etc.

my bosc, I use a substrate mix that allows her to dig about in:-)

While simple viv designs are good from a quarentine point of view, not very interesting to look at or very interesting for the animal to live in.

Stuart · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:

I used to try and keep all my vivs looking as natural as possible but as the collection grew practicality took over..so newspaper,hide each end and a water bowl were the only items used and a branch or 2 for anything that would use it.

Dan · Captivebred Communist Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 1306

I would kill to have the space to house my lot in a natural set up !!!

Not just because i think the animals must benefit from it but because it is just sooo much fun to create and maintain the set ups and all the workings that go with them Laughing

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leonie · I'm new here... Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

size of houses has been constant fun! i dont like to think how many times ive moved houses since i moved to university lol and in typica student fasion i only had my friends and the occasional "borrowed" shopping trolley at one point 2 of us were living with the menagerie (various hamsters, mice, rats, cats, gals, frogs and aquatics!) luckily we finally found a landlord that allows pets this time lol
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Jas · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:58 pm Post subject:

Love the signature Leonie Laughing

Pollywog · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

I like to have fairly naturalistic setups but I find them inpracticle when I have so many to look after. I find that some species such as Dendrobatids do much better in naturalisic vivaria but the majority of species are more managable and will breed readily in simple sterile setups.
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