Enclosure Design and Bioactive Set-ups
Heating, UVB, thermal gradients, plants and clean-up crews.
- Level
- Beginner
- Study time
- TBC
- Modules
- 0
- Lessons
- 0
- Assessment
- Module quizzes · graded certificate
- Version
- v1.0
What you'll learn
- ✓Choose an enclosure of the right size and type
- ✓Design heating and lighting to create proper gradients
- ✓Use UVB safely and effectively
- ✓Build and maintain a bioactive enclosure
- ✓Add furnishings and enrichment that encourage natural behaviour
About this course
A good enclosure lets a reptile choose where to be and how warm to be. This course covers enclosure size and materials, heating and thermostats, UVB lighting and UV index, thermal gradients, humidity and ventilation, furnishings and enrichment, and how to build and maintain a bioactive set-up with live plants, substrate layers and clean-up crews.
Cover photo: A planted bioactive vivarium for poison dart frogs. Photo: Connor Long, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Course content
0 modules · 0 lessons · study time TBC
Who this course is for
- Keepers setting up or upgrading an enclosure
- Anyone interested in bioactive set-ups
- Shop staff who advise on equipment
Assessment & certificate
Each module ends with a quiz that is marked automatically: multiple-choice questions plus a written section where you explain what you've learned in your own words. You can take each quiz once and cannot retake it, and you'll see the correct answer to any question you got wrong.
When you've completed every module, you receive a certificate of completion with a unique verification code, graded on your average score across all the module quizzes:
- PassUp to 69%
- Merit70–79%
- Distinction80–100%
Everyone who completes every module receives a certificate.
This certificate confirms completion of an online, theory-based course and a passed online assessment. It is not an accredited qualification and does not certify practical competence.