can you get asf rat pups.

also if he use to eat f/t talk to the breeder maybe he use to make the f/t move around with forceps or something and could of possibly only feed at night or first thing in the morning.

if he had a good feeding response when you got him (if the breeder wasn't lying) i don't think you putting it in a 10 gallon would stress it out that much well that and maybe if you hold it very often. in my opinion a baby snake shouldn't be handled till they get around a year old just to make sure they stay as stress free as can be. it aint in a snakes nature to be handled so any handling stresses them some more so then others but it stresses them all none the less

here's what i would do put even if just paper towels around outside of 10 gallon tank so your snake can't see you at all (this in itself will take loads of stress away from your baby(babies to me seem to have the mind set if i don't eat it it's going to eat me. so your baby knows for a fact he can't eat you but seeing you all the time makes him think you could eat him even if you won't) my 2 baby balls go nuts when i enter the room they are in they stop what ever they are doing and get ready to strike which to me means there instincts are telling them don't move or you could get eaten.(my green tree pythons use to be the same way) left them alone for biggest part of a year only opened there cage to feed and water and clean (got struck at more times then can count now since they aint been touched while considered a neo till a month or so ago) they know aint going to hurt them in fact one that i dubbed monster cause how nuts she would go when with-in 5 foot of her cage will let me hold her now. and all that cause i didn't try to push them into being held i let them get use to me being around on a regular basis. people say snakes aint that smart and that may be true or not but they do recognize scent of people and can tell the difference from 1 person to another so once your snake learns your scent and that you aint going to hurt them. which time it takes for that to happen depends on the snake some (I've caught wild snakes held them for 10 minutes then put them in a cage go back later to check on them and they don't try to bite. while I've had others for years and never calmed down enough to be held with-out getting bitten 4 or 5 times in a minute (one of these was a female ball python i use to have meanest snake i ever had she would go nuts if you touched her she'd give you 1 warning hiss then shortly there after she'd start striking)

I'll wager if you first off get rid of the bedding (bedding hides pests and pests cause stress) second cover the tank even if just get a bird cage cover and put over it. and no handling till snake eats regularly for a couple months