In the pet supplies trade, terrarium keeping plays only a minor role. This is due to the unwillingness of many speciality retailers to invest much in this segment, but also because in many countries the number of terrarium enthusiasts has not increased on anything like the scale predicted a few years ago.

Compared with other pet categories, knowledge regarding the market significance of terrarium keeping remains very limited. No official figures exist either for the number of pets owned or relating to the sales trend in the food and accessory segments. What is significant is that, in the latest market data published by the European pet industry federation Fediaf, the population of terrarium pets was not...

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