I'm sure this comes up all the time but I tried searching the forums and came up with too much non related stuff.

Does anyone know a link to a good site or post giving detailed instructions for natural crested habitat enclosures? I'm converting a piece of furniture in to crested enclosure and would like to do it natural but am not quite sure what's needed to keep maintenance up. Cleaning a glass tank is way simpler than maintaining live plants and dirt without allowing harmful bacteria to grow...

So I'd like to start, knowing the correct things I may need to incorporate into the system first before I throw anything in there.

By natural, I mean that I prefer dirt ground, planted plants, ect