I doubt tuna juice will ever entice a snake that eat rodents to eat. Ever. I've actually never heard if that one.
The main thing I'm hearing is you've had the snake a week. He's stressed from his new home and even trying to feed now is only making your situation worse. Coupling that with trying ft on a sole live feeder and you've got rejection written all over your situation.
1. Give him a week to even 2 weeks from this point no handling, no food offering, only bare maintenance.
2. When that time frame is up offer a small live rat weanling. Or whatever size prey fits your snake. But go with live 100%.
3. Only when he is eating steadily do you try to switch him. No need to dip, slit, or debrain, or anything like that. He's either going to eat it or not. Try and go with ft prey that is the same as the live prey.
The main thing is he needs his acclimation period. Give him as long as he needs. Offer 1x time if he doesn't eat take the prey out and do it again in a minimum of 1 week. He needs to be on a consistent schedule before it's even feasible to switch him to frozen.
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