My interest in terraria began about two years ago when I liked to have a aquarium. It never cam that far but the interest to try to make a small habitat remained. Soon after I thought that having a well landscaped terrarium with some kind of lizard in it would be fun. I started to make plans, searching and collecting information (from which the last was very hard).
But after a month or so, good friends asked me if I would like to buy their sons lizards because he would move to Mallorca. He didn't know the exact spieces, all he could tell that the larger green one was a phelsuma (I knew a Day Gecko). With the knowledge I had then I knew that it had to be both Phelsuma's: the small one Phelsuma Barbouri and the larger green one is still a mystery but definitly a Day Gecko.
These tropical forest inhabitants where housed in a very simple terrarium. A substrate of wood chips, some standing bamboo's and a dried out Philondendron scandens. Light provided by two simple 60 Watt bulbs (each compartment one) and heating by two cables. Some humidity was taken care of by misting now and then. I would liked to re-decorate the terrarium but with the animals in it it was very difficult.
Both animals died after 3/4 year in my possesion. I don'd knopw why. Maybe I didn't had enough knowledge or maybe it was natural, I didn't know their age.