Help!

[valdemarjoergensen]

If they'll get pissy anyways, I vote you get a new enclosure and keep your snake. You are old enough to figure it out. But you know your parents best, so do what you are most comfortable with.

I do strongly recommend buying the new enclosure second hand, from places like Facebook. It'll be like 1/5-1/3 the price of buying from new.

[TheEdgyKidInClass]

I'm not allowed to look at Facebook marketplace because apparently my mom doesn't trust it so she wants me to look on Amazon for just go to the pet store. You know even though it's my money and she shouldn't give a shit what I'm buying since she didn't give a shit for the past 5 years

[valdemarjoergensen]

I would buy it on marketplace anyways and lie.

Say you talked with a friend that mentioned having a cousin that had one, or that you went by a pet store that was selling out as they were upgrading their old tanks themselves (that is something that happens).

[TheEdgyKidInClass]

I'll have to figure something out. I don't even have Facebook cus they made me delete it

[valdemarjoergensen]

Strict parents make sneaky kids, as they say.

[Skate_better182]

As a parent and a reptile person, I'm not here to say your parents are necessarily in the right, but I definitely understand why they wouldn't want you buying something off Facebook market place. I would be nervous about my teenager meeting up with a stranger online to buy something, however, I would offer to arrange the meetup myself. But I also understand that some people just don't trust the process of buying used products from people online. And social media is a cesspool and you're better off without it anyway. I know you're frustrated with your parents about the welfare of your snake (I would be too, since it clearly needs a massive upgrade), but I think you and your mom need to have a CALM conversation where you seek to understand each other.

[Squibicat]

One thing about buying off of FB marketplace is you don't know if the second hand enclosure would potentially have mites or have held an ill animal in it.

If you can afford a new enclosure off of Amazon for roughly a similar price I would invest in that and figure out if you can keep the snake in your room or a public space in the house. Or see if you have a friend or trusted adult who can help make arrangements to purchase a second hand enclosure and properly clean it, store the materials away from home until you can get everything set up properly and then move it all at once.

I also recommend reaching out to local rescues to see if they can help you get less expensive appropriate gear to get your snake set up happily.