Power Outage Questions

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

I just got a FB posting from my local exotic pet vet about not using portable heaters indoors with birds.
I know that birds are more sensitive to toxic gasses like Carbon monoxide but I wonder if our beloved amphibians will
react to those gasses.

I know that you should have a window cracked to get fresh air in even with humans. But are these animals so sensitive
that even cracking a window wouldn't be enough?

[Mentat]

I just got a FB posting from my local exotic pet vet about not using portable heaters indoors with birds...

Think that warning is only for birds! They will keel over many fumes (i.e. some cooking utensil coatings) that are OK for humans .

[DVirginiana]

Think that warning is only for birds! They will keel over many fumes (i.e. some cooking utensil coatings) that are OK for humans .

I think it has to do with their high metabolism and respiration rate... I'd think herps would probably be safe.

The only fume issue I've heard of with reptiles other than the well-known stuff is with larger pythons getting nicotine poisoning. Not that you should smoke around them anyway, but their metabolism was apparently slow enough that enough nicotine built up in their system to become toxic.