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LeapinLizard
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Hey folks,
I don't post here often, but I just wanted to share a tidbit of information, especially for my fellow Southern Californians who might be in any fire prone areas.
Santa Barbara (where I live) made national news because of the horrendous fire that started on Tuesday. I remember seeing just a little plume of smoke on the way home from work that afternoon, and then things just exploded over the next few days. We got a evacuation warning Wednesday night, and I put my 10 gallon tank in the car.
Thursday night, the firestorm started, and it was pretty nasty. We were evacuated at 10:30 that night, but we had the car packed and ready to go. I was able to grab 'Dony, and put him in his little critter keeper, and then we were out of there.
I learned a lot from that. Namely, it's so important to have an emergency cage or something on hand that doesn't take up a lot of room and is fairly lightweight. I could not have been able to take his Visionarium with us. Too heavy, too long and too bulky. His old 10 gallon tank was pretty good, especially since it still had a heat mat. I didn't have a thermostat, and I learned a lot from that too. We stayed at my dad's office out at UCSB, and my gecko was just fine with the heat mat plugged in and going. Of course, next time, I think I'll have an extra thermostat and thermometers packed up and ready, but my leo was fine without it on a short term basis.
I'm definitely going to start putting together an emergency kit for my gecko in terms of the things he'd need if we ever had to evacuate from a fire again. I'd make sure he had a big enough tank, but not one that would take up a lot of room (I'm thinking plastic would be better than glass in this case, because it's lighter) and he'd have everything he'd need for a few days.
Hope my experience helps a little.
I don't post here often, but I just wanted to share a tidbit of information, especially for my fellow Southern Californians who might be in any fire prone areas.
Santa Barbara (where I live) made national news because of the horrendous fire that started on Tuesday. I remember seeing just a little plume of smoke on the way home from work that afternoon, and then things just exploded over the next few days. We got a evacuation warning Wednesday night, and I put my 10 gallon tank in the car.
Thursday night, the firestorm started, and it was pretty nasty. We were evacuated at 10:30 that night, but we had the car packed and ready to go. I was able to grab 'Dony, and put him in his little critter keeper, and then we were out of there.
I learned a lot from that. Namely, it's so important to have an emergency cage or something on hand that doesn't take up a lot of room and is fairly lightweight. I could not have been able to take his Visionarium with us. Too heavy, too long and too bulky. His old 10 gallon tank was pretty good, especially since it still had a heat mat. I didn't have a thermostat, and I learned a lot from that too. We stayed at my dad's office out at UCSB, and my gecko was just fine with the heat mat plugged in and going. Of course, next time, I think I'll have an extra thermostat and thermometers packed up and ready, but my leo was fine without it on a short term basis.
I'm definitely going to start putting together an emergency kit for my gecko in terms of the things he'd need if we ever had to evacuate from a fire again. I'd make sure he had a big enough tank, but not one that would take up a lot of room (I'm thinking plastic would be better than glass in this case, because it's lighter) and he'd have everything he'd need for a few days.
Hope my experience helps a little.
