well actually if they are aquatic they arent cooler than room temp. water is a sort of 'heat sink' and will change temp less frequently than air beacuse of its unique properties (its a hydrogen bonding sort of thing-you dont want me to go on about it)so your water is more stable to temp change than room temp BUT since they are in a tank they are at average room temp PLUS anything moving the water and lighting the system is actually making the water warmer.



you will need to tell us what set up you have, what breed of newts and if your temp of 76 is the top or the average. there are very few newts that can handle those temps for sustained periods of time with out stressing from it and succoming easily to diseases. it is worth note that 90F can cause some salamanders to go comatose-which i suspect is a result of denaturing('cooking') their proteins-so you can see that if it even slips into 80 sometimes that can be disasterous in the long run. your best bet is to do what i did-get an airconditioner and give them a separate room (or a basement if you have one-but mine even got up into 75F in the summer).

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