Product Description

If you've been to a zoo or a botanical garden, you've seen natural terrariums. These beautiful enclosures combine plants and animals to create mini-ecosystems that fill viewers with wonder. Even more wonderful, you can create your own natural terrariums right in your home. Almost any species of reptile, amphibian, or arthropod can be kept in a natural terrarium. This guide is a complete instruction manual for creating stunning natural terrariums. It contains information on plants, substrates, water features, animals, construction, and more. The eye-catching sidebars, boxes, and photographs illustrate key topics all owners of these intricate systems need to know. Natural Terrariums will help you build and maintain a healthy vivarium.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #222340 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent text
Awesome book. It begins with a history of terrariums and then explodes into facts, figures, and dynamics on how to build and maintain any one of several terrariums types: desert, jungle, forest, swamp, etc. I'm not exactly a beginner terrarist, but this book definitely has high-end stuff in it. I would personally recommend it for both advanced and beginning hobbyists, because certain sections contain more or less detailed or exacting information. The novice gets and easy entry into the hobby, and the expert learns a few things along the way as well. Don't be like me and waste your money on other terrarium texts. Buy this first, and you won't need to blow your cash on anythring else.

Excellent
An excellent book from an author who obviously has years of hands on experience. No one can be disappointed with it's comprehensive coverage of the subject in a very easy to read style. By far the best I have found to date on the subject.

Howard