Help, ball python trying to escape

[Nephil]

I wouldn't use anything that has a chemical smell- plain corrugated cardboard boxes generally don't. You need to find things he can feel snug in that are suitable- no one can do it for you, you need to make it work for your snake. It's always better to have a suitable set-up when a new snake first moves in, than to have to change things around that he may miss- every time you re-home a snake or change their still-fairly-new home, it's stressful for them. That's on you, but forward is the only direction you can go at this point, to find ways to help him settle down. And please do make sure his temps. aren't the problem. How about hunger? Is he due to feed? That's another issue that can make a snake restless.

I tried with half of a cereal cardboard box too, cutting the underside of it also. The entrance is low, the inside is dark, he can fit in there perfectly, but he entered it once and didn't want to go back there again. He continued his escape attempts all day until evening, and now he is just resting his head on the stone hide for some reason.. His temps were and still are the same (cool side 26 C, hot side floats between 29-30 C, but the stat is set up to 5 more degrees cause it doesn't heat up enough if i set it to the exact temp i want), he never moved around so much, and when he was active when he was really hungry it wasn't for a really long while. I give him 2 hopper mice every 5 days, and i should feed him tomorrow, though his restlessness started about a day after he ate if im not wrong. He would still be hungry after 2 hopper mice before, but he'd just keep his head tense waiting for a mouse to pass by while his body would stay in the log. What also i can say is that he did gain weight compared to when he was in the pet shop, but after going to the bathroom he looks thin everytime and doesn't seem that he's in the right BP weight even after 3 months after i took him home,but whenever i try to weigh him he really cant stay still and i cant get his exact weight. I don't know if ball pythons just gain weight very slowly, or if it's cause im not feeding him small rats that will help him with weight.