My friend and I like to catch animals in our small town in Connecticut, we usually catch normal things like snapping turtles, box turtles, water snakes, garter snakes, occasional black rat snakes, etc. We have been doing this for 3 years and this year was the first year we have ever come across a Milk Snake. We lifted up a rock in early june/late may, and came across two eastern milk snakes under the same rock. We came to the conclusion that they were mating partners and though nothing more of it. We each took a milk snake home with us. Two days ago, ( July 25th) I lifted up the log in my milk snake's cage and found 9 eggs bundled up togethor. I panicked and quyickly started researching to come up with the best "incubater" i could come up with. My final product is, a 10 gallon tank with a heat pad at the bottom and a 100 watt heat lamp on the top. The eggs are in a metal and glass bread baking pan with about an inch of moss below them. The bread pan is then covered with a sheet of tin foil and i have a thermostat set up so that when the temperature gets above 82 degrees ( i have a thermometer inside the pan) the heat source turns off and when the temperature gets below 82, the heat source turns on. I mist the pans daily and put some water in the 10 gallon tank but outside of the pans. If you could please tell me if this is an adequate set up for the eggs or is there is anything i can do to make it better for them. I am going away for a week on vacation, will they be ok if i mist it alot right before i leave? Also, about how long do i have to wait before my eastern milk snake babies hatch?