Terrarium backgrounds, posters and ornaments

Creating a natural decor is essential for your turtle to feel good and enjoy its habitat. Each environment thus shaped allows your little reptile to move about easily, climb and elevate, hide to be calm...

Artificial plants are a good option, easy to maintain and mimicking natural elements. Vary the foliage and stem shapes to vegetate a corner of the terrarium and make it a haven of peace. Their exotic, tropical, or desert-like style adds a touch of color and contrasts with branches, caves, rocks, and resin rock slabs.

Finish by adding a background decor adapted to your tastes and a shallow basin if you have just adopted a Hermann's tortoise, for example.

Snakes, geckos, pogonas love to slide under rocks and into caves but also perch and "bask" under the lamps you have installed beforehand. It is advisable to cover the floor with a natural and soft substrate, designed without toxic products, before implementing the decor.

A sufficiently large branch allows your reptile to enjoy its new environment, mimicking its natural habitat. Perforated rocks, trunk fragments, resin caves, and original shelters make for beautiful hidden spots, for example, protected by a green wall and cascading green or variegated foliage.

Because many snakes and lizards love water, it is also essential to provide them with one or more shallow basins suitable for their size.

To properly clean your terrarium decorations, you must pay attention to their material by using non-aggressive products that do not alter textures and remain harmless to reptiles.

A half cup of bleach mixed with half a liter of warm water is ideal for disinfecting. Equip yourself with an old toothbrush and a swab to reach every corner and perfectly disinfect all accessories constituting your decor.

The substrate is cleaned in the same way by simply dipping it into the mixture and waiting at least a quarter of an hour. Then rinse the whole thing with boiled water!

Artificial plants pose no danger to the reptile. Their advantages are easy and quick cleaning, facilitated maintenance: you don't have to take care of them. Many varieties are represented such as cacti, succulents, etc.

If you have a green thumb and prefer natural plants, choose small sedums, echeverias, crassulas, Gasterias, etc. Mosses and ferns also provide a certain density and a pleasant array of colors.

Designing a tropical or desert terrarium requires certain knowledge of these two natural environments. To create a humid tropical terrarium, start by laying down a layer of fine sand then small dark-colored pebbles.

Install your artificial or natural plants: ferns, staghorn, adiantum, palm leaves, etc. Fill in with resin accessories: branches and hollow tree trunks, etc.

The desert terrarium is also covered in substrate or dark gravel. A corner is reserved for rocks, caves, and dead wood. A few pebbles can be used as a perch and surrounded by cacti and succulents.