Decorating your reptile’s habitat is important. Not just from an aesthetic viewpoint but also for the comfort of your pet, reptiles need places to hide to feel secure, they need things to climb on an over to maintain muscle tone, they need water bowls to drink from but most importantly they need environmental enrichment to maintain their psychological wellbeing. Many snakes and smaller lizards exhibit a behaviour called thigmotaxis which means a tendency to stay close to the walls of an enclosure, pressed up against furnishings or a pressed against the inside of a hide. Thigmotaxis is an antipredator behaviour and providing multiple hiding places helps animals to feel secure and content. The minimum requirements for any reptile enclosure should be at least two areas to hide and a water bowl but when it comes to décor in your enclosure it really is a case of the more the merrier.