Congrats on getting a new snake!
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i have a 3ft enclosure coming to me free (my cousins iguana cage) and it might come with heat lamps, so all ill have to do is slightly modify it a lil bit, put a lock on the sliding glass door, which if anyone has an idea on how to do it
If it is just two pieces of glass that roll or slide in tracking then you can go to Lowes and get a display case lock for around $6-7.00.
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then its off to a petstore for any further needed items and some more mice
Might want to consider rats instead of mice, they are better for your snake. Just get a rat that is equal in girth to the widest point on your snake.

You might want to skip the astro turf as a substrate too. It is hard to get a tank to hold humidity with that stuff and every time one spot is soiled you have to pull the whole peice out and clean it. You could try news paper or cypress mulch as an alternative.