YOU need to breed what YOU like and should not let other's dictate what your goal should be.
If you fear for bug eyes but want to make a BEL a safe option will be Lesser X Mojave
The only thing I would encourage you to do is make sure you are ready and asking yourself the right question, such as what will you do with the offspring, will you keep them, is there a market for them, can you afford keeping them X amount of time if they do not sell, do you have a reliable source of live feeder once your hatchling hatch?
As for heat tape you want to run identical pieces of heat tape on the same thermostat otherwise you will have temperatures discrepancies.
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