Too hot!!!

[Crowley136]

Hi everybody,

I'm just wondering, for people with Crested Geckos how do you cool down the cage in the summer if it gets above 80°F. I have AC but not in the room I'll be keeping him?

[Alter-Echo]

I keep mine unheated in my reptile room, so they are about 78-80f year round. In summer I just open the windows in there if it gets over 85f

[mlededee]

Best thing would be to move him to the room with AC for the summer. Prolonged temps above 82-83 cause stress and lead to death. If you have a temporary situation where it is too hot you can mist with cool water and run a fan to help cool down the enclosure (but you have to do this repeatedly and closely monitor temps with a temp gun). I had to do that once when my AC went out in the summer. But I could tell the geckos were getting stressed at the 82-83 mark and pretty much had to spend a couple hours in the room misting and running multiple fans into cages until a backup window unit AC could be put in.