Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
Putting the enclosure on the floor won't lower the temperature much- especially if you're not on a first floor apartment, since heat rises & upper floors are always warmer.

A fan will NOT lower the temperature of a reptile- the reason moving air makes us feel cooler is because we sweat & the moving air cools us by evaporating our moisture. That's the way a "swamp cooler" works- but remember they only work when it's not humid- that's why they're used in the desert, but not in states with more humidity.

A rock or tile only "feels" cooler- it's not, unless it's been in the refrigerator. Like I said, I would stick with keeping animals that you can manage with your real conditions- heat waves or power outages are not going to disappear- what then? If your power goes out, you'll need to keep your fridge closed, so getting ice could make your food spoil sooner...just think ahead, how you'd feel?
These are all good things to know - it seems much easier to warm up a cool room/animal in a power outage than to cool off a hot one. And yeah, this is why I figured I'd ask, to see if it was even doable - if I can't keep them safely I'll just have to knock them off the list for now. When I saw their range was 65-75F it sounds easy because you think "oh that's just room temp, great!" But since they can't go far out of that at all, I'm starting to see why they're not very commonly kept.

As for the BPs, if the heat wave had gone on for more than 2 days I was going to switch off their heat, but luckily it ended, and we got decent temperature drops at night. I left them alone for a few days afterwards to get over it, no feeding or handling, and they seem ok now. But I was thinking to myself "if I'd gotten that gecko after all it'd be dead or in bad shape now" so I was curious if there was some tool or setup or something I didn't know about.