and the snake tries to eat the mouse... he just has terrible aim. But i was dangling it bu its tail, with my hand, so he might of not had bad aim and was trying to bite me. When I put mouse down, any hand movements near the tank and he striked at me like 3-4 times. Then had no interest.

I am going to try a live mouse, regular adult size.. smallest one I can find. The stores here only sell live mice of regular adult size. Worse that can happen is he won't eat it right?
Stun it or don't stun it?

I hear horror stories of mouses clawing snakes eyes out and :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:. Not sure is this really happens.