Hello and good day to all. I would like input on my first build. I constructed this acrylic enclosure. This will be housing my C. Versicolor. I look at it and i am satisfied but don't want to overlook anything. The size is 4 inches wide by 3 and a half inches long by 7 inches high. The is 3 and half inches of substrate, I currently am using creature soil sifted to remove large chunks of peat and has some sand added to help drainage. This is not a bio-active as of now but another build is on the way that will be bio-active. There will be 2 water dishes and has 2 cork barks. The cork on the back wall was attached by silicon and is a round that provides a hide accessible to the T. By bottom and top by the leaves. My T. Is 1 inch DLS. Almost an inch DLS. I do not plan to rehouse my T. at the moment, but her or his enclosure will be ready.
Input in case I left something out.
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Nice going. I'd put more holes on top. Primarily because if your Avic drops a canopy up top, and they often do, it will molt on the canopy, and have no energy to drink. You will then need to sprinkle water up. More holes.
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Is there some context to this question? Predator-prey interactions just means the the relationship between predators and their prey. It can refer to how they influence each other on a population level (like how wolf populations affect the number and health of deer populations) or on an individual level (like whether the predator uses a lure, actively hunts, or sits and waits, and how the prey tries to evade capture). Does that help?
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Ah. gotcha. In that context, you'll be thinking about things like how much effort and time it takes for the T to catch its prey. Sit-and-wait predators in a too-large enclosure will be less successful at capturing prey, which can lead to slower growth for slings, for instance. On the other hand, species with a strong chase instinct may feel stressed in a too-small enclosure. What kind of prey you choose comes into this as well. Prey that doesn't climb or fly will have few interactions with a predator that tends to sit and wait in the canopy, again leading to lower success for the predator.