I know I haven't been on here much or anything but I'm rather worried about my boy. So my two year old pumpkin champagne hasn't been eating recently like since late November. I've been checking and double checking his husbandry every day, humidity is kept between 50-60% except during his shed which it was kept to 65%, cool side of tank is a constant 82-84 where he spends most of his time, warm side is 88-90. He's been wandering like crazy during night time hours which in my case since I actually am nocturnal is roughly 8-10 am. He'll come out a couple more times during the evening between 6-8pn. I've been checking to see if I hear any popping or wheezing nothing there, I've reduced handling him to see if he was just getting stressed out from that but that doesn't seem to be the case either. Before he stopped eating he weighed in at 1196 grams and currently he's at 1104. I took him to my preferred vet because it's been a couple months just to be sure everything is okay. Had a culture done, came back blank so had to get it done again. When I brought him in the second time they gave him an appetite stimulant (I don't think I ever want to do that again because I feel like all it did was serve to stress him out), tried to feed him just last Monday, two days after the stimulant and he still completely ignored the rat. I feed frozen thaw, warm it up to about 90 degrees using a hair dryer, he's taken food like this reliably since I got him and nothing has changed in his environment, hides are nice and snug and before he went off feed he was a super aggressive eater too, like rat was in there maybe 10 seconds before he was coiling it. Viscious little guy tore the leg off the rat once with his strikes. Now I'm a little concerned because the vet is suggesting force feeding to stimulate his appetite but I'm really not too keen on the idea of force feeding him since he's still looking pretty plump and I know he's been good on drinking water. I see him take a good drink every day right after I change his water. She also suggested getting a uvb light for him and get rid of his under tank heating which I have regulated by a rheostat. Suggestions?
Edit: I should note that I just recieved a call saying that his culture came back good tonight too. I'm wondering if maybe I should have a CBC test done. Also thinking I may buy him a live pinky rat to coax him into a little snack.
Below is a pic I just took of him tonight.
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