enclosures.. multiple issues

[Bowfinger]

I agree with ryanm.
An example of introducing species and parasite problems...

1) Fish are commonly kept together and/or using the same water supply. Now days you can not keep any fish without being worried about disease. If they where kept seperately we would not have these problems.

2) Before good treatment of mites, they where spreading many deadly diseases from one cage to the next.

Many species of reptiles have parasites that are unique in their group, but when introduced to a new species can be deadly.

So if you try to introduce species and notice they "get along", consider the other complications not seen by you. I would recomend that if you do introduce species for a natural set up, not to re-introduce one back into the hobby or any breeding projects.

 

[Noodles]

Geckos dont hide very well on scott towels, all my geckos are on naturalistic setup, its better for my mental health i guess.

 

[Silvershark]

I'm definately a fan of naturalistic vivariums. Not only for the reptiles, but I find it enjoyable to design and create a mini-version of a habitat, though I did add a bridge in my snakes new vivarium but surprisingly that doesn't really damage the idea much at all :lol: I'm looking forward to getting the large vivarium for my Stenodactylus and creating a larger desert for them to play in and doing a rain-forest set-up for my mourning geckos (Lepidodactylus). My mourning geckos are in a sterile cricket tub right now but hopefully they'll be moving into a nursery enclosure soon, and then onto an even larger enclosure when they are adults.

As for keeping multi-species together I'm new to keeping reptiles and can't really comment much on that. But if the enclosure was large enough, I'm sure a realistic natural setting would look fantastic.