I thought I'd post an update. I went to a new vet today for retained eyecaps and the whistling sound which has gotten better since I started this thread.

On the way I was wondering whether he associated the container with the last trip to the vet and he struck at me as I took the top off of the container so I guess I have my answer.

I grabbed him up and he was fine but obviously nervous.
Kind of like when you take tour car to the shop because its making "a noise" and then it doesn't once you get there, my BP didn't make a peep as far as the whistling.

He didn't want to vet to look in his mouth but once he did everything looked fine. The diagnosis from the vet was that my guy was a little dehydrated (I'm sure from the previous owner/conditions.

He also said he looked a little heavy since the vet could see some skin between the scales so he recommended I stop feeding weekly and go to every other week feeding schedule. He's about 2 years old, male and 1588 grams. About 3.5 feet in length. Does this sound overweight for the size/age?

Another issue was that he hasn't passed a stool in the past month since I've had him. Well that was solved when the BP went all over floor and partially on the vet . He passed a couple pieces of hard white urine and some regular stool, so we got a stool sample for testing.

The vet suggested I wait until after the next shed reference the eyecaps.
He also suggested a humid hide so once I returned him to his enclosure at home, off I went and got that accomplished. I put the humid hide (a large inverted Tupperware type bowl with another small container of sphagnum moss inside) in place of the cool hide.

Any thoughts/suggestions/tips would be appreciated. Thanks in advance and my wishes for a Happy New Year to everyone here.