Okay, so I adopted an adult male ball python on Saturday. I am keeping him in a 50something quart sterilite tote. The first few days he was very mellow, and acting normal. He was in shed when I brought him home (eyes foggy.) Two days ago I switched to cypress mulch to raise humidity for aide in shed, and put a piece of cork bark for him to rub on. Early yesterday morning, I found that he was almost all shed (it was a bad one.) So I took him out and cleaned up his cage (he also defected which is why I changed it.) In this time he was on my shoulders while I was tiding up his cage. I switched his substrate back to paper towel. He was a little antsy then. I go to put him back in his tote and close it, and he begins to throw himself at the walls, and twitch his middle body slightly. He was doing this all yesterday and was trying to squeeze his neck/middle body out of he tote. It seemed like he was agitated with anything touching his middle body and make a big jerking motion, but it seemed like he was trying to frantically get out. Now mind you, he was in this same tote four days in a row. Temperatures and humidity have been good, I have been monitoring them entire time I have had him. I use an ultratherm heating mat controlled with a thermostat. So yesterday I thought he may be hungry because he may have spotted my guinea pig when I had him out. I attempted feeding him yesterday to no avail. He completely ignored it and was trying to escape the feeding tote. The weird thing is, he is acting calm this morning... But his movements yesterday were plain unnatural. He did have some slight scabbing on this middle back from an injury of unknown origin. I assume if it isn IBD it has something to do neurologically because of the minor wound? (Which looks non existent because of his shed now.) He was trying so bad that I had to duct tape his lid down. I will upload a video of it when I have wifi access. I thought it may be due to stress, but the movements do not match to that. I would let him roam in my bathroom if for some reason he was antsy, but I do not want to take the chance of him having IBD and it spreading to my other pythons ..