It is nice to see a first timer who has done their homework. I would just recommend getting everything ready for your new babies well ahead of time, and reread as much as you can so that you are ready for common problems.



Breeding is the kind of thing that takes experience to really know what you are doing. There are just some things that you cannot fully learn nor appreciate by reading alone.



I hope this experience is good for you. Alot of people rush in and get overwhelmed because they are not ready, but it sounds like you are doing fine.



As a side note my first experience with eggs was from a wild caught Black Rat Snake that I didn't even know was gravid when I was 12. She laid the eggs through her enclosure, even in her water bowl. I did not have an incubator or anything, not even vermiculite. I had to wait till my mom got home to run me to the store to get some vermiculite, and then make an enclosure out of an old aquarium. Alot of things went wrong during the incubation time (mostly my fault), but in the end 14 of the 15 eggs hatched and the experience was worth more than any book I read. 17 years later and I still make stupid mistakes but with each one I learn a little more.

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