Living outdoors

[theresaintucson]

I have what I think could be an awesome place to put my panthers outdoors full time. I live in Tucson, AZ. The patio is covered. It gets terrific light from the east and south from sunrise until sunset. Three sides of the patio are walled. Now I put my panthers outdoors in their cages when I am home all day. And I'm home often since that's where I work from. I can see their cages the entire time from my studio door and windows.
The temperatures this week are unseasonably cool for this time of year--5 to 7 degrees below normal. Which means it's in the mid 50's at night. Is this too cold for 5-6 month old panther chams?

 

[Carlton]

I live in Tucson, AZ. The patio is covered. It gets terrific light from the east and south from sunrise until sunset. Three sides of the patio are walled. Now I put my panthers outdoors in their cages when I am home all day. And I'm home often since that's where I work from. I can see their cages the entire time from my studio door and windows.
The temperatures this week are unseasonably cool for this time of year--5 to 7 degrees below normal. Which means it's in the mid 50's at night. Is this too cold for 5-6 month old panther chams?

Some questions for you to consider:

What are the high temps in summer? Being walled in might raise it over their comfort zone.
The patio is roofed over correct? Would the chams get direct exposure to sunlight from the east and south or just reflected light?
What is the humidity level? If you don't have lots of live plants to hold water droplets and humidity higher around the cages it might be too dry much of the time. Can you mist everything down?
Can you bring your chams indoor on those really cool nights? You could leave them outdoors as long as the night lows don't go below 60F.
Consider ants, bees, predators.

 

[theresaintucson]

Some questions for you to consider:

What are the high temps in summer? Being walled in might raise it over their comfort zone.
The patio is roofed over correct? Would the chams get direct exposure to sunlight from the east and south or just reflected light?
What is the humidity level? If you don't have lots of live plants to hold water droplets and humidity higher around the cages it might be too dry much of the time. Can you mist everything down?
Can you bring your chams indoor on those really cool nights? You could leave them outdoors as long as the night lows don't go below 60F.
Consider ants, bees, predators.

I would bring the chams indoors during the entire summer since there are days when it's over 100 degrees or more.
The chams get direct sunlight then and now on that patio.
People don't realize that we have a monsoon season here in Arizona and it does get HUMID. Also the area is more humid than most because it's located by our big swimming pool. There's vegetation all around and I can easily mist things down.
I can easily bring them indoors when it's too cool.
I've never had an insect problem here. This summer I did have two gila monsters in our back yard, not the front where the patio is. Snakes are possible-two drowned in the pool.
I think the answers to the varmint/predator question have made reconsider the outdoor move.
I wonder if I can get the DH to go along with the idea of enclosing that patio area...Thanks for the imput.