Dobry, Thanks but let me dig a little further into your set up because this is interesting.

"The hotspot ranges from 110F to 135F and it depends on the ambients and the age of the bulb, they kind of cool off as they get old and I don't always notice, but it doesn't matter with these snakes as there is plenty of heat."

If your offering a hot spot that high, How large is their set up? Let's say for sh!ts and giggles it's 65F ambient temp what is the coolest part of their cage? How deep is the sandy substrate? Do you contain the hot spot to a small area?

"My ambient temps are never hotter than 80-82 F and only for a few hours a day on the hottest days of the year. "

See this is where I have an issue and have to artificially cool my stuff. 80-82 would be pretty much year round for us living on the Gulf coast.

"However the first winter I did not provide heat, and lost a female mex mex and a couple getula. I was keeping them in a cold room during the winter and it got too cold for too long and It was a huge mistake. "

Did you lose your snakes because you fed them or because it got below your lowest ambient temps of 55-58? I kept all my adults for 3 full months at temps 10 degrees cooler than that on empty bellies and the were fine...

"The getula are in a rack system, and the heat cable is set to 90F right now, but in the winter I had it lower at around 80F"
So you are not offering your getula a spot higher than 90? I can see where this set up works for getula and may not work for other species. I am pretty sure this will work for scarlet kings, floridana, corns etc... For L.m.greeri maybe not so much...

When you talk about nesting are you talking for egg disposition sites or just a regular nest area that snakes create in deep substrates? Is it moist or dry or both? Was their photo period natural or artificial?

BTW, congrats on the 2 nice clutches!
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