Glass cages + plants

[Qoph]

http://amzn.com/B0007VWEQA

Your link actually got me looking at more and more fancy models, and I really like the nautical porthole kind now (~$50), as long as it's not too big for a tank. I'm a little crazy, I know.

If you are going to play around with them, go for tropical ones like baby elephant ears and types of ferns. If you plant them on the insides you will need a thicker layer of substrate to actually plant the plant in, so UTH doesn't work well with this. You will have to kinda rely on lamps.

I like ferns, so that can work. When it comes to keeping the heat in at night, because of the tank size, would you need to go with a ceramic heater or would one be able to incorporate a shelter much like their natural termite mounds which would keep them warm at night? I know one reason that works in the wild is because of the size of the mounds, so I'm not optimistic about replicating that in limited space.

A great resource for your perusal: The Art of Keeping Snakes by Philippe De Vosjoli
http://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Snakes...keeping+snakes
It goes over bioactive substrates and live planting for terrariums for all sorts of snakes.

Great, that's one of the things I was worried about: the soil needing to be replaced with all the plants in it. I was wondering if there was a way for it to keep itself maintained in a tank. Because I just recently watched some things on an aquarium doing just that. The person running the tank claimed to never vacuum his substrate.