Hello. It's great you are doing your research ahead of time!
We use appropriately sized rubbermaid/sterilite containers. Always have a water source large enough for them to fit their bodies in completely. We either use Scott paper towels, or newspaper for substrate. We keep our snake room with an ambient temp of around 83 degrees. All of our animals are doing fantastic. If you have any forther questions feel free to PM me and I'll try and help ya out the best I can.
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