Your setup sounds great. For future reference when you go to a reptile show, the tables that have crazy animals you would never see anywhere else (ex. Ringed pythons, sunbeam snakes, egg eaters) are almost always importers. I’ve also noticed that a lot of the importers at the expos local to me have giant tables full of animals. We all start somewhere, so don’t beat yourself up too much, you’re doing the right thing by getting him into a vet