Feel we are not making progress...

[Moose84]

I just realized I don't have a heating pad small enough for a 12 qt tub, so that would be an additional $15-ish dollars plus $7-ish dollars to buy the tub. If I kept him in his current enclosure, would he eventually chill out? Or do you guys strongly recommend I make the investment.

$22.00 to put the snake in an environment where he will be better off? If you want the snake to stay stressed out and tag at you when you go in his tub then keep doing what you are doing. I just don’t think 22 dollars is a lot to ask when you more than likely invested hundreds of dollars in the animal from a reputable breeder.