Alright, so as stated in my last post feeding for the first time didn't go well, lemme lay out what is going on:

My ball python is a three month old male, he was eating live fuzzy rats before I got him.

I have been on the ball with temps and humidity, I have probs and a temp gun to check everything.

He just shed which is probably why he didn't wanna eat the first time around, shed was successful.

He gets interested in the food REALLY interested, I am talking he will sniff and follow it even when I make it feel alive and moving, he will get all up on that rat (frozen thaw fuzzy I have no way of buying live where I am at) hell at one time he looked like he was just gunna open his mouth and swallow it off the tongs I would not have cared if he strikes or not so long as he just ate.

I have tried a smaller enclosure tub, still interested just not biting. It's almost like he doesn't know if it's food.

I have not handled him at all for the past weeks I have had him.

I am getting worried, I have been leaving him alone and I know he's hungry.

Options are:

Try buying a live mouse, now the only mice I can imagine this one pet store (not a pet smart or petco) has is small mice but I don't know if that would be too big, I can see their size in my head they would be a bit wider than the fuzzy rat

Take him to a vet, I would rather not resort to this, not because money is an issue I have yet to go to this exotic vet and seeing his office filled with cats at the front desk makes me nervous, I would have to make sure this lil guy is sealed and probably ask to have him seen as soon as I get there. Plus be with him at all times in case something is fishy, the guy says he works with reptiles as well as horses and many other pets, I just have that bad vibe but if I gotta go I'll go.

Waiting game, which I don't wanna do this at all, he's drinking water but he's getting thinner every time I see him.

I try guys, I really do, I try to keep the feeder there and moving about but after deciding it's not food he just shies away from it. I get that it's winter and balls go off feed, but he's just three months old, that is not a good body weight to be able to fast on.

I've handled babies before and helped feed them, they usually take after being hungry enough be he is really stubborn and making me worried haha. It's like the saying goes, it's easier taking care of someone else's kid but the second you take care of yours it's a whole new battle.

If anyone has any tips/advice on what I should try, I did the blow dryer I even brained one, just anything that may work or maybe I am just too worried and he will be okay.

He's been happy so far aside from stress from trying to feed him. He drinks, stays in his hides, regulates well and even shed well for me. I just think it's the switching from live to frozen thing that is catching him.