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    How to beat the heat?

    Here we are again folks another question, I live in Southern California and I have poor air conditioning my snakes habitats are reaching 88-90 across the habitat the heaters shut off as they are on tstat controllers I am just worried that if it gets hotter what can I do and at what point do I need to really worry about how they are doing? I have added a swamp cooler to the room and I am working on a second account unit for the room thought about adding an exact fan programmed to pull hot air out of the enclosure with it on a tstat as well any input would be greatly appreciated.

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    Re: How to beat the heat?

    Worst comes to worst: frozen water bottles in one end of an enclosure can work wonders

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    I just throw frozen 16.9 ounce water bottles in the cages. Did it last summer. just had 2 per cage on hand and the equal amount in the freezer so i could just swap out as needed. I do wrap them in paper towels though so the paper towels soak up the condensation and get wet and the frozen bottle will keep the wet paper towel cool.
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    Get a large water dish and fill it with cold tap water early each afternoon, as it will take a while for it to warm up. Your snake can also soak in it if it needs to cool off.

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    If you are using a hot spot simply stop using it and use ambien temp only if in the 84 or above range.

    Monitor the snake body temp and get a reading of that.

    Keep the air circulating in that room.
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    When I lived in Vegas and the AC broke down mid summer, I filled 2 liter bottles with cool water, wrapped them in towels and placed in the cages. Refilled/replaced twice a day (I would think frozen would be way too cold?). Also misted the enclosures with cool water which brought the temps down quickly.
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