I'm beginning to see a big difference in his behavior he's not posing now when I hold him...instead he's running all over me...lol. But when my kids walk in the room he still poses and won't move until they leave. So I'm guessing thats stress. for now I've moved him to my bedroom and I'm going to slowly introduce my son to him so that he gets use to all of us and doesn't have that reaction. After I fed him his slury yesterday afternoon he actually ate a few worms on his own, but stopped eating when the kids came in the room. So I think I've narrowed a large part of his problem to the stress of all us new people. And yep his eyes are shedding also right around his mouth. I'll get a picture of the tank and post it for you, but overall he's doing much better.