In this thread viewtopic.php?f=149&t=31359 we have seen that euopean people like me have other vivarium setups then you. I think this is really interesting an maybe we can discuss about the WHY.
In my opinion wie have mor natural setups because we haven´t got these thinks in the nature. Looking out o the window I see this:
and we wish to be in Southern Africa ore other places.
I have considerd that I would go out and collect a lot of contents for our ivs, when I would life in places like yours, but would i realy do so?
Maybe we try to build natural setups because it is not that easy. We have to search long time to find the right roots, stones and so on for our vivs.
I´ve been outside in the "woods" some days ago, searching for bark of dead trees. But it isn´t easy, its cold and there is snow eerywere and germans are so straight that there are no dead trees in the smal woods (you can´t really call it "wood").
so I searched for hours and doesn´t found a lot, so I have to go again and search more hours.
When the viv is ready i will be really really happy, but would I be if it would be easy?
This are just some of my thoughts, maybe your place doesn´t loo the way I think/wish.