Mr Cooper said he had found it difficult to come up with ways to prevent geckos from entering air-conditioning units, with some suggestions failing spectacularly.
"After a business client had an issue with gecko damage, I called Tweed Council asking for advice and they told me to put naphthalene, like in moth balls, into the air-conditioner," he said. "We repaired it, but within a month the owner rang us to say it wasn't working again, when I went in I lifted the lid and the actual geckos were running across the naphthalene flakes so we found that not to be a deterrent at all," he said.
Both Mr Kellahan and Mr Cooper said while they have not found a way to keep the pests at bay, they have had some success in reducing damage by spraying the electrical circuit boards with an anti-corrosion spray during installation.Dr Conrad Hoskins from James Cook University, who has been studying the impact of the Asian house geckos on native animals, said geckos are attracted to air-conditioners because they provide a perfect hiding place.
The geckos and the air conditioners come from the same place Asia, so why do we allow for the importation of devices that are so poorly designed and fabricated that they can be damaged so easily by something that is endemic to the point of origin?
Well, Australia has always said it wanted to be part of Asia, welcome to a common every day occurrence. Just don`t sleep with your mouth open.
Lord Gecko, our invasion the kingdom locals call “Actron” is underway.
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