Quote Originally Posted by Tricon7 View Post
My avatar is a red-tailed boa I used to own, so no, it's not what I currently own.

My hot side is upper 80s, cool side lower 80s - at least when I have the heat lamp on. I have to turn it off during the night, since it stays in the room I'm in where I sleep and it gets too warm at night for me to sleep when the heat light is on. I did buy a heating pad for underneath the hot side, so he won't be completely without heat during the night (it's warm here anyway in Orlando). I have a temperature dials for each side that are affixed to the glass with some kind of velcro sticky.

The tank is a 45-gallon aquarium, and it has two hide boxes - one for each side. I don't yet have the back and sides of the tank covered, so I hope to get to that in the next few days. I want to take him out daily, but I don't get to all the time. My wife reluctantly let me get the snake, as she's definitely not a snake-person, so I can't really get it out when she's in the house too often.
I can see several issues here that could be causing the problem.

1) You are going to have to find a way to keep your temps from dropping at night. If they drop at night, he's not going to eat. Also, you really need to get a better way to measure temps than what you have. Those sticky dials are horribly unreliable.

2) A 45 gal tank is huge for a BP, especially if he's young. Either move him to a smaller, tub type setup (which make make the temps easier to maintain since it's more enclosed) or black out the sides and put crumpled paper everywhere to make him feel safer.

3) Stop handling him until he's eating regularly. Just leave him alone except what's necessary for cage cleaning, water changes, etc.