Apparently my rheostats went buggy and my tanks are overheating.. badly. I admit I have relied too heavily on automation so I failed to notice untill I went to feed my babies today. I opened my NW adult female tank up today like I do everyday and got a strong gust of heat. Temps were at 90+ coldside... the "warmside" warranted renaming to "broilerside"....

Naturally, I moved everyone into holding and am trying to figure out why my rheo's are failing to regulate considering the surge protectors they are plugged into are functioning. Unfortunately i lost one of my baby northwesterns as a result of the extreme heat. Also unfortunate for me its sunday tomorrow and I will not be able to purchase new rheos untill monday. So my garters will be chilling at 65 for a day or so after potentially up to 12 hours at dangerously high heat. hopefully this isnt too hard on them. Man i really feel like i got caught with my pants down on this one.

Living in Alaska I never thought to have a overheating protocol like I do with freezing, and I paid for this mistake today with the life of a wonderful snake. So I figure Id ask the community what your emergency protocols are like? How do you avoid overheating in warmer climates? How do you go about artificially cooling your tanks? Does anyone use / Is there like an alarm system or something that can tell you (like audibly) if your systems are failing / have failed?

Seems like this is the sort of thing we all should have a plan for so we dont end up losing our scrubs to highly preventable causes like I did today .