Close Call!

[chelvis]

So last night I get home and my roomate has a fire going in the wood burning stove. About an hour after I get home the house starts to fill with smoke, not unusal when the wind picks up. We are opening windows and I get to the reptile room and find it odd that its full of more smoke than the rest of the house. I don't think to much of it and go to bed.

The next morning I got to check on my reptiles and Bosco greats me at the cage and looks good. Then I open up my caiman lizards cage and there is smoke in the cage! Turns out one of the cats had knocked off the thermostate to the cage and a small fire had started in the cage! With 50% the cage being water it put its self out. Luckly my caiman lizard was fine and there was no damage done to the cage.

Just kind of scary to know that that could have apread. So just a warning, its getting colder but watch those heating elements.

 

[Rhetoric]

Glad things are alright. I've had a scare before, poor Guru... Definitely scary!

 

[slideaboot]

Good lord! That's terrifying! Glad it all worked out.

 

[Kebechet]

Are they breathing all right? They might not have been injured by the fire, but their lungs could still be hurt by the smoke

 

[chelvis]

Bosco is perfectly fine today, not hacking or anything, there was no smoke in his cage. Bacardi my caiman lizard has some crackling but last time I checked he was all clear as well. It looks like he spent the night in the water with the filter going. I will be keeping a close eye on him.

 

[martinreptiles_3]

Oh my, whew close call! I am glad to hear everything worked out okay!

 

[Rhetoric]

I had my second close call about 4am... Two of them managed to knock a CHE fixture loose, my boyfriend woke me up and then the dogs decided it would be a nice time to alert us.. The garage was FILLED with smoke, no fire but the mulch was definitely embering.. Their enclosure had hanging type fixtures, from home depot, screwed into the framing. Tomorrow I will be getting porcelain fixtures to drill into the top of the enclosure.
So far all the tegus seem to be fine. No burns, sneezing, coughing, etc. But now I'm really considering RHPs to use at night instead of CHEs. They're significantly more expensive but I couldn't live with myself if I accidentally killed my tegus.

 

[chelvis]

I am in the processes of building a new reptile "enclosure" my roomate says its just a small room inside a room. I am looking into either heat mats or radiant heat pannels as well at night. I have not problems with the MVB, this was also started from a CHE, which I did not like having to start with.