Terratlantis Arboreal Feeder for Terrariums

Terratlantis Arboreal Feeder for Terrariums is a smooth-surfaced feeding dish that mounts at any height inside a glass terrarium, for reptiles that live off the ground.

Key Features

• Mounts at whatever height you want: Which is the whole point. A gecko that lives up a branch should not have to come down to the floor to eat.
• Works as a food dish or a water dish: The brand offers it as both. See below on what arboreal species actually drink from.
• Smooth, non-porous surface: It wipes clean and can be properly disinfected, which cork bark and wood cannot - and a dish that holds food residue in a warm enclosure is a problem.
• Keeps food off the substrate: Which is the practical reason to own one, and it reduces the chance of your animal swallowing bedding along with its food.

What Arboreal Species Actually Drink From

• Many arboreal geckos drink droplets off leaves and glass rather than from standing water. A crested gecko can live alongside a full water dish and never visibly use it.
• So a dish is a sensible addition and not a replacement for misting. Keep spraying the enclosure on whatever schedule the species needs; the dish is there as well, not instead.
• Where a dish genuinely earns its place for water is as a backup and as a humidity source, and where it clearly earns it is as a food dish for a powdered or wet gecko diet.

Standing Water In A Warm Enclosure

• Water sitting in a warm, humid terrarium grows bacteria within a day, faster if an animal has been in it or food has gone into it.
• Change it daily and wash the dish properly rather than tipping and refilling. This one is smooth, which makes that a ten-second job.
• If you use it for a wet food mix, take out what has not been eaten within about a day. Fruit-based gecko diets ferment quickly at terrarium temperatures.

Good To Know

• Pairs with the taller terrariums in this range - the 60 cm and 75 cm tall models - where there is real height for an animal to use.
• Worth having if you use a loose substrate. Feeding from a dish is the standard way to reduce the risk of an animal swallowing bedding, and both Terratlantis substrates are loose.
• Ask us for a photograph with something next to it for scale if the size matters to you. Dish capacity is the one figure the brand does not publish.