(First off, pics coming tonight)

I have been pairing my hypo and het hypo for three years now with no results. This year seemed just as void of results as every other. By this point I've pretty much given up hope of them producing. No blatant ovulation, bulking up, glowing...anything. Then two days ago, I had them paired up and when I went to separate them, she was coiled with part of her hind end on its side. I thought to myself, "hmmm....maybe she DID take this season, it should be a bit till she lays.. " Well, I was wrong. The next day(yesterday) I go to check on everyone, open her tub, to find her coiled up around a clutch!!

Needless to say I'm beaming with excitement! Last night I cleaned my incubator and filled the bottom of it with waterbottles. Today I got the temp up and stabilized at 90*. I also got an egg box and filled it 2:1 with vermiculite:perlite (water mixed in according to sticky here on bpnet).

So while I am letting its temp stabilize in the 'bator, I have a couple questions: Should I hang my herpstat's probe inside the box? and if so, on the substrate or suspended mid air? As for humidity, i think ill pick up a thermometer/hygrometer with the remote probes for the bin. and probably not the last question: is there anything I am overlooking, or any tips you have?

Pictures of both snakes, clutch, and incubator will be posted tonight after the eggs get placed in the 'bator.