I got him about 4 days ago, his enclosure in a 15 gallon, sliding door, temps about 76 on the cool side and 86 on the warm, and I dont have a humidity guage but the room that the snakes are in (which is also my room), is pretty humid bacuse of my fish tank. And I had the same cage and setup for my other ball and she did fine.
Theres a hide on both sides, on the cooler side its about3-6 inches and the hide on the warm side is about the same, and theres a peice of drift wood going across the whole cage that he likes to coil up on.
And thank you very much for your advice, but as I was typing this- success! I had taken the fuzzy out for a couple hours, just put them in a shoe box (similar to what I feed my other ball in), and after 5 minutes- he just struck and is swallowing!! Yay!