What is your AC goes out and you live in Arizona in the summer

[EverEvolvingExotics]

Im just wondering what someone would do if you owned these guys and your AC went out. Especially if you had a big colony of them. Seems risky to me. What measures do you take before something like this happens to be prepared. I have always wanted a few, they are amazing reptiles.

[Jeanne]

For this occassion, we have invested in an a/c unit that goes in the window. We have had to actually deal with this just last summer. Our plan was to have the window a/c, and we did buy one, and have it sitting in the shed waiting for use, and I was so glad we had it. We just moved the cresties n other heat sensitive animals into the same room in the back of the house (my guestroom) until a local company was able to come out and help us.. Thanks to AirForceOne, we had our a/c back up and running within 4 hours, and this was last 4th of July.. Had it not of been back up and running, the reptiles would have just stayed in the guestroom until fixed.

[RhacHead]

Well I doubt you have a basement in Az but if you did that would be the first step.If you have a large colony then a window ac would be a good investment also anyone with a large colony would really should have a generator.Obviously this would be planning for worst case scenario but better safe than sorry.If you don't have these safety measures in place take a couple frozen bottles of water and put them on the top of the enclosures bringing the temps down and creating condensation.

[mlededee]

Well I live in coastal Georgia and a few weeks ago my AC went out. It was in the 90s outside so it quickly started to heat up in my house. I brought a large fan into the herp room and made a make shift swamp cooler, sprayed down all of my cages super well and made an emergency run to Lowe's for a portable AC unit. Of course when I got the thing home the part that goes into the window for ventillation did not fit in my windows--too wide! So I pulled out the window AC unit that I have in the garage where my rat breeding colony is set up and put it in the herp room window. Several hours later it stormed and our power went out, but luckily the sun had gone down so it was cool enough that with extra misting the temps were okay.

If it really came down to it though, and I had no AC and no power, I would pack up all of my rhacs into deli cups and portable containers and go to a hotel. Hopefully I would be able to get everyone packed up quickly enough, but there is no way they could stay in an un-air conditioned location in hot weather. If you only have a few animals you could very quickly and easily do this as long as you keep some emergency, portable containers on hand.

[SpencerShanks]

Well I was just asking myself this question last night lol. Since I'm only planning on getting one, and I might not even get that, I wouldn't need too much just a few fans to make sure he wasn't roasting at 116*

[JNballs]

hi,

whats the temps at your home in summer? we, in vienna, have about 90 in summer, and our rhacos don't have problems with this! but i cannot say anything about higher temps.
the bigger problem is the icubation of eggs, as they need about 80 we had to buy a new incubator which has a cooling function also.

[2kdime]

Invest in a generator

[Sarin]

Well I am no where near Arizona but this happened to me this year. I have 5 geckos and at the time I had 3 eggs incubating so it was scary. The room got up to 83 degrees, and the eggs got up to 78 degrees. We got the A/C replaced within a couple of days but if it would've lasted any longer they would've gone to the basement where it is about 10 degrees cooler.

[BPelizabeth]

I personally would stay in a hotel...if I couldn't get everything in....I would call a friend or a neighbor to house them until I could get it fixed.