How important is basking area?

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Originally Posted by zato1

here in México the temps (not in my actual city, but in Cuernavaca, where i used to live before) are about 85-95 in spring and summer, 85-90 in fall and about 78-87 in winter, and BP and Boas do very very well with no artificial heat, but some days it get higher, about 98 so i did have a hide with a few humid coconut fiber or peatmoss in one side and a hide with nothing in it in the other side, newspaper as substrate and it worked just fine, i would not concern about enough heat, and honestly either about too much heat, just wanted them to be as comfortable as posible, the times i did forget to put humid hides in summer they just soaked in his water bowl, and i can tell they were fine because they eated, pooped and sheddeed very well.
i have acquitances that live in Méxicali (city of north México) where temps reach 104 F (40C) and they DO need cooling sistems, still some of them dont have complicated systems or A/C on, just a fan in the room directly to the rack, or/and humid hides.

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Hello Bro, yes, it seems we have actually very similar temps. In our area though it is quite humid, which is even better for the snakes I think coz it rains a lot here.

As long as they are eating, pooping and shedding they are fine right?

How many times are they supposed to poop in week? :-)