Hi everyone, I have some questions as this is my first snake. While I don't feel he is totally a "rescue" I did get "him" (gender unknown) for free from where I work because we think he's either partly or totally blind.

Here's a basic rundown of what happened:
The ball python came in from the vendor with unshed eyecaps. After about a week or so the animal manager brought him into the vet, who removed them somehow and told us to give the snake eyedrops for two weeks. After reading around this forum a bit I'm not sure this vet knew exactly what he was doing. One of the snake's eyes seems almost sunken in, the other looks dried out and cloudy. After a vet recheck it was determined that he's blind and while I haven't owned a snake before, I have handled and helped to feed them before so my boss wanted him to go to someone who at least sort of knew what they were doing.

He ate well on Saturday, coiled right around a f/t fuzzy. He's got a hide, though I need to go out tomorrow and get him a smaller one, and he seems to prefer to coil around the base of his plant right now. Does anyone here have experience with blind snakes, and how to keep them healthy/happy beyond their basic needs? And how long should I give him to settle in before taking him to get checked out by my exotics vet?