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Factors in Buying the Perfect Reptile Vivarium
Choosing the right type of reptile vivarium for a reptile is much more comprehensive than picking an aquarium for a fish. It can get pretty confusing if you go to a pet store or look online to buy a vivarium without knowing where your reptile naturally comes from. You must first research the natural habitat of your current or future pet reptile and then pick and buy the correct type of vivarium. This is especially important for both prolonging your pet reptiles life and making it as comfortable and happy as possible.
Depending on the vivarium you choose to buy, your reptile may love you or hate you. This is the sheer truth. If you give it only the basic essentials like food, water and heating, but don’t give it any privacy, hiding space or even a substrate like sand, your reptile will likely not like you one bit. If you factor in all of the following bullets in the list below when customizing your reptile vivarium, your reptile will absolutely love you!
Here are important factors to consider when buying a reptile vivarium:
- Make sure you know its natural habitat
- Current size of reptile
- Future size of reptile
- Number of reptiles that will be housed in the reptile vivarium
- How much hiding space it wants
- How much privacy it wants
- If you’re building your own vivarium, do your how-to-build-it research
- Strength of reptile (to determine how strong the vivarium itself needs to be to prevent escape)
- Type of vivarium material (ex: wood, glass, wire mesh, ect.) your reptile is best suited for to mimic its natural habitat
- Whether your reptile is ground-dwelling or tree-dwelling to determine how tall your reptile vivarium needs to be
- Heating and light requirements
This is the list of essential factors to determine what reptile vivarium you should buy. Make sure you don’t only use this as your reference sheet for buying your own vivarium. Browse this site to answer any other questions you may have about buying the perfect reptile vivarium. If you’d like a question answered specifically for you, simply comment on this article with your question.