Vivaristics
Vivaristics refers to the care and breeding of animals in a living space that comes as close as possible to the natural habitat and is artificially created by humans, the vivarium .
The most widespread area of vivaristics is aquaristics , in which attempts are made to reproduce the living conditions of various water-dwelling animal and plant species, be they freshwater or marine life, in an aquarium . However, terraristics are also becoming an increasingly larger area ; here an attempt is made to artificially reproduce the biotopes of lizards and similar living things in a terrarium .
A paludarium is a hybrid between terrarium and aquarium and is used in particular to keep amphibians and certain water-loving reptiles .