Haha good luck with that. I tried tough love on Caesar and he got 2 scrapes on his chin from it. I've pretty much conceded that Caesar is going to be 10' lol. The large rats are the only thing that keeps him quiet. Anything smaller and he is saying "look at me!!" by smushing his face into the left side, right side, bottom and even the top of the glass door.....yes he even braces himself on the lower dam and smushes his face into the top dam haha.
But the plus side is he has been completely quiet the past 3 days. He did play under his paper towels though and did look over at me when I was straightening them out this morning but he didn't seem really hungry. I'm actually liking the paper towels for him to tell you the truth. Makes clean up easy as you know, retics piss all the time and funny part is he seems to actually enjoy the paper towels as he can slide around under them and stuff. I'll definitely keep the boas, BP and dumerils on ReptiChips but debating on Caesar.
Oh and 1 other weird thing is when he was on aspen and ReptiChips, he used his hides a lot. Now on paper towels he doesn't use his hides. He shoves them around but is much happier to just sit out more now.