Company tests the viability of vivariums as a business

Replicating nature: Some of the plants that will be placed in a vivarium.

A PASSION for living things, especially amphibians, reptiles and plants, gave Chau Chun Seng the impetus to set up Riumz Sdn Bhd in 2011 to bring vivariums, or enclosed miniature habitats, into the homes and offices of city dwellers.

A vivarium, which literally means a “place of life” in Latin, is an area, usually enclosed, for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation, research and decoration.