My new ball that was in shed last week and that was suspicious of RI, has now completely shed (after soaking in warm water, chillin in a wet pillow case, and having a wet towel wrapped around him) and the popping noise he made while breathing is gone, and he isn't opening his mouth to breath anymore. So the "RI" was just the shed stuck in his nose, I'm guessing. He also ate his first meal since I've had him! We watched the pet store feed him a f/t pinky at the store on the day that we bought him, and then he didn't eat when we tried to feed him 2 weeks ago when he was at my boyfriends house, then he went in shed last week so we didn't even try to feed him, and then today we bought 2 live pinkies, and he took them right away, much better than f/t. We think he might be leary of the feeding tongs? He kinda coils away from them. I'm just ecstatic that he isn't having trouble breathing anymore, and that he ate his first live food perfectly.