Facebook trade gone wrong
Hey guys, not necessarily keeper advice needed...but some sort of advice needed. I'm 31 weeks pregnant and a mom of 3, and have kept ball pythons for 3 years now. I recently found a Facebook marketplace listing for a ball python available for trade for a 75 gallon fish tank. I had what I believed to be a 75 gallon fish tank, it is what my dad said it was when I gave it to me and I am just a girl and I personally don't have a measuring tape and hence my dad gave it to me I trusted him. Well, snake came to me, he was in a bare tank with a dusting of substrate, a single hide, cacti, and bandaids holding up the probe for his heat mat and his enclosure was filthy. He had urate everywhere and what looks to be several bad sheds, he's got stuck eye caps and is under weight he's a 1.5 year old and this person was feeding him a small mouse every 3-4 weeks. He only weights 185g and is dehydrated. The person came and dropped him off, and I had asked her 4 times if they were sure they wanted the tank. They said yes, loaded it into their SUV and gave me the snake and went on their way. 7 hours later they're saying I need to bring them the snake back or they're gonna call the cops and that the tank wasn't the size it was. They offered for me to pay them $150 at first and now it's up to 200 and they're giving me until tomorrow evening before they call the cops. I'm just terrified now, because I never intentionally lied about the size of the tank, I don't have the means to drive the hour away to them, and I just don't feel right sending the ball python back to them, and they seem like the person to escalate and call the cops and cps for no reason and that makes me even more anxious. What should I do? I'm scared, I'm worried, and I don't know what to do. Also, first time rehabbing a ball, what should I look out for and how can I help him be as comfy as possible?