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All great advice here so far.
I have an adult male hog that was a bit like this -- well, the hissing and refusing food for periods of time, then finally getting hungry and eating well for a while. He's been doing better since I figured out that he really prefers prekilled prey (rather than the frozen thawed that is usually my default food). He's a much more reliable eater on freshly prekilled, and is much less likely to turn up his nose (so to speak...) at food and then get hungry and crabby. I suspect that if yours eats more, he'll stop the in-cage biting of your hand.
Also, though hognose people might have a different opinion, I wouldn't feed an adult mouse to my male. That's simply too big a prey item, especially if he's not a really reliable feeder. I don't see any problem with filling him up with multiple fuzzies or hoppers.
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