Thanks guys for your advice. I will leave him alone. I have a baby corn snake in a separate tank next to him. Could that be stressing him out? maybe I could put a background on that side of the glass so he doesn't see him? Or am I just being overly paranoid? There are lots of hides for him on both sides.

As far as his environment goes, I have an UTH with a thermostat attached to it and a digital therm/hyg with two sensors. The reading is constantly at approx 85 degrees and humidity fluxuates from 45 - 50%. He's always on the side by the UTH, so maybe I am keeping it a bit too cold? Maybe I should increase the temp to 90? I'll do that when I get home.

I'm just really afraid to feed live. I know I'm a wimp, but really the only way I agreed to let me son have a snake was becuase of the f/t option. Now I'm in love with snakes myself, but still not ready for live prey. Just no cut out for it. I've been a cute cuddly furry pet kinda person all my life until now