Quote Originally Posted by Aztec4mia View Post
41 qt sterilite tub w/lid, cypress mulch bedding, as soon as i saw signs she was gravid i put in a smaller plastic container upside down with a small hole on the side for entry(about an inch shorter then her tub and about 3/4 of the width and a 1/3 of the length). Filled it with damp sphagnum moss and left a thin layer of the mulch at the bottom. placed the edge of the container at the edge of the hotspot (11inch flexwatt) and placed about an inch of the mulch around the container to keep it in place.

Let mama do her thing and adjust the nest as she wanted and once i seen her wrapped around the pearly whites placed the thermometer prob as best i could in the center of the clutch (which needed to be adjusted every now and then), sprayed the mulch around the outside of the container and the entrance to the container daily to keep the humidity up, kep the temps between 86-89 degrees(kind of hard with a on/off thermostat).

she was a first time mom and i had 5 beautiful babies(100% hatch rate) start cutting on day 54, placed babies in there own tub on wet papertowls, removed the container and sphagnum moss from moms tub and she was feeding a couple days later.
Awesome Aztec! For next time, try feeding mama snake on the same schedule even when she's on the eggs. My snake ate every 10 days throughout the incubation process.

During the first 2 feed schedules, we would unwrap mama off her eggs and feed her in a separate container (this is our normal feeding process - we feed in a separate container because we offer live rats and the snakes live in a super-decorated viv that has tons of nooks and crannies that the rat can hide in and poop on, etc.). Mama snake was the "evil snake from hell" while incubating - she goes into strike mode the second you open the tub and we just got tired of having to wrap her head in a towel and all that jazz just so we can move her to a separate container. So, for the rest of the feedings, we would just drop the rat in the tub and she would uncoil half her body off the eggs, strike and eat while half her body is still around the eggs. Quite amazing to see.