Inhabitants for my tropical terrarium. Suggestions?
Hi everyone! I am a professional horticulturalist and aspiring botanist from Melbourne, and recently converted my 4ft aquarium (kept tropical fish for about 3 years) into a panted terrarium type thing. The main purpose of my terrarium was to showcase small tropical herbaceous plants like orchids and bromeliads. It's been quite successful over the past few months, and now I guess I feel the need to populate the landscape with some kind of amphibian or reptile. So does anyone have any suggestions as to what snake, lizard of frog species would be happy in this environment? Keeping in mind that it would have to be an Australian critter, as I can't obtain exotic species here.
The environmental parameters are as follows:
Humidity- 70-80%
Temp- 17 in the evening, 24 at day (degrees Celsius)
Lighting- natural indirect sunlight through nearby window + 2x 54w T5 HO tubes on top of tank (6, 500K full spectrum), photoperiod 12 hours
There is a body of water in the tank, and the substrate is just subsurface perlite and moss layer at the surface. There is a lot of rocky and woody surfaces in the tank too, as well as many plants obviously!
I can modify a lot of this environment if required and add UV lighting and heating if required
Ideas!?
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