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Hi all,
I have been lurking here for quite a quile (years) and keep all kinds of stuff. Well, I have a nice group of phantasticus and am moving to a place without AC in san diego (ave. summer tep in house probably around 85 maybe 90F - on the bad days). I was wondering if any of you have 'secrets' to keeping a cage cooler, so I can still hold on to them. I was thinking cycling frozen water bottles over the cage every morning/evening - anyone try this? Any other thoughts besides sell them to someone with AC?
Thanks,
Peter

Swamp coolers are a good way to go too. I would attempt to find a way to doing that before party with them. Getting a good group of animals is difficult. What's the atmosphere in the unit like? Is there an area that can be isolated off from the rest of the place, if so you could talk with some horticultural people and see what they might recommend.

Jason

i've used frozen water bottles in my hovabator when the temp was about 95 outside. i was able to keep it about 80-84 and it would keep it there for about 5 hours. however that's an eclosed situation. i would try getting A/C atleast in one room if i were you.

I keep our front display tank which is housing a 1.1 cool with an ultra sonic humidyfier from walgreens. it's cool fog, not hot.
it's got a 20 hour resivore and i use only distilled, and distilled ice cubes. I have it plumbed in from below as we're using cages by design and i can drill holes easy in their wood. this is ran to the top, and allowed to fill the tank every time the temps runs up past 78. you would need more air circulation as this does create condensation on the plant leaves and such. other then that, i'd spray with cooled distilled water, have a fan or keep the blinds closed all day and run fans...yikes!
hope this helped.

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