Here's an update. I stayed up all night with him and it looks like things have changed. Recently I changed out his hides to smaller ones in order for me to be able to fit a bigger water dish, however, the hides were clear plastic bowls which I don't think he cared about too much at all. I put his old hides back in lastnight which were your standard hide rocks and it looks like that helped a lot. He calmed right down and went in the hide. Through out the night I would pick him up and check for bubbles and there's nothing.

As far as the shed goes, I didn't catch the eye's changing color, but he's more than due for one. It's been almost 2 months, his color is much darker, has a pink belly etc. I'm thinking when I saw him soaking I panicked and thought it was mites when it could've just been him saying he needed his humidity bumped up. When I checked for mites though, I could've sworn I saw one on his back and possibly in his water dish. I should've waited for the wife to verify for me.

On a side note, since switching his bedding from eco earth and aspen to paper towel, I find that he keeps lifting the paper towel and going under it. What's that about lol