Another (small) update... decided to give Silv one more chance eating on his own before forcing again. I picked up a small Ziploc screw-top container to feed him in from now on (I am pretty sure I read about that somewhere here) and he is in there with three flopping guppies. Do I need to poke holes in it...? It seems that I remember a LOT of snakes at the herp show I went to in rubbermaid type containers with lids and no holes. I would really hate to suffocate him after working so hard to keep him alive.. heh. Right now I just have the lid sightly loose (but not so much that he could get out).

Also, I purchased a small (and rather crappy, haha) scale to weigh him. He is 12 grams - which is exactly what he weighed when I took him to the vet on November 30th, which is when we started force feeding. So... 2.5 months of force feeding and he has not grown at all. Kind of depressing.