How long without heat?

[Taquiq]

How long can LG's survive without heat? Please vote.

 

[RampantReptiles]

depends on age and how healthy they are to begin with. LG if they are healthy adults can survive a while without heat but they will definitely not be healthy after wards...

 

[Taquiq]

Over 40 grams for 8 days? Is that fine?

 

[Northstar Herp]

Define "without heat". If you mean that the room is in the 70's it's different than if it's in the 50's.

 

[Taquiq]

75-85 degrees.

 

[Northstar Herp]

I'm no expert by any means, but we had a leopard gecko for several months with no heat (not more than the low 70's), and she's the easiest leo I have to this day.

 

[5HiddenLizards]

My adult male was without heat for about a year & a half. My room stayed around 85-87 during the day when noone was home & the ac was off. When the ac was on it might have been around 7o....in the winter i moved his tank to where he'd get heat from the vent. I would also wrap a towel around his tank when we didn't have the heater on. He stayed fat & had no shedding problems. although I would never do that with the new geckos we have now. They seem 90% more fragile than he was. I'm just glad I had a very tolerant gecko as a first pet.

 

[Stl_Greaser]

There are too many factors to list that would have an effect on the outcome of not having heat on the enclosure.

 

[Taquiq]

Thanks everyone!