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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

800 GRAM FEMALE BALL PYTHON LAID 4 EGGS

hussler1984 said:
I just recently addopted a very nice female ball python that supprised me with 4 small eggs. I had no clue she was prego!
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hussler1984 said:
In this post I never claimed it was ok to breed an 800 gram female ball python, thats the reason why I bugged the ex owner to let me find it a better home
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So which is it, you had no idea she was "Prego" but the reason you adopted her is because the ex owner bred her.

And why in all your posts do you put "just recently..." only to reveal later that it was recently at all, is it because it never happened and thats your way of not having to show pics?
 
Focal said:
Greg, I've always respected your opinion and still do, but that's were civilization comes into play. There are a lot of things that happen in the wild, that should not happen under the care of a civilized culture. Cats and dogs eat snakes but I don't let my pets mingle with my collection. Snakes can live in condensed enviornments in the wild and spread diseases freely. That's something we don't allow as breeders because it is not beneficial to the species. Darwinism is the reason they are allowed to do this in the wild. It keeps the population in check. If they were genetically engineered to wait to 1500 grams and lay 10+ egg clutches, there would probably be an over population crisis (although at this point it would probably be beneficial in over harvested areas). Some countries allow kids to do drugs at a very, very young age. I would never allow this. Just because it happens, doesn't mean it's right, but as you said, it's a flamable subject and opinions will vary :)
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AGREE
 
GREGORY J HALL said:
it is a flamable subject but none to get upset about in the wild do they have people seperating them & keeping them apart till they get 1500g 'NO' so it does have nothing to do with size or age if they go they go if they dont they dont,I try mine at 1100 to 1200 if they go I know it they feed real good & are 1900g by the time they lay.I know after producing over 150 babies it works some people do it different.
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Greg if it has nothing to do with size or age why do you wait till 1100 or 1200 grams, why not start at 700?
 
Bob O'Brien said:
Greg if it has nothing to do with size or age why do you wait till 1100 or 1200 grams, why not start at 700?
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Can we please not give the OP the satisfaction of starting to pick eachother apart here :(

there are plenty of discussion threads already out there about breeding size of ball pythons....with stats, reasons, explanations , theories, practices and on and on and on...we don't need to hash it out here, for the amusement of a troll
 
Willow said:
Can we please not give the OP the satisfaction of starting to pick eachother apart here :(

there are plenty of discussion threads already out there about breeding size of ball pythons....with stats, reasons, explanations , theories, practices and on and on and on...we don't need to hash it out here, for the amusement of a troll
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I agree our habits are not in question, just whats safe for our animals
 
While Harald and I have had our spats and disaggrements, i dont think there is anyone who can do his job better. He has my utmost respect, and by far has an excellent personal definiton of the word fair. Dont think you'll get far here by trying to make him look bad. Without him, Rich woulda prolly closed this site down a while back. Thats just my personal opinion.

Theres no reason to be excited over such a small girl producing. Get over it. The only thing u should be excited over is the fact the female survived, which is a subject u didnt elaborate on. Which to me shows u didnt really care about the females health in the first place.

@Randy, crtl B, crtl I, crtl U, will bold, underline, or italicize what u want. Just type between the boxes.
 
Where r u now

Willow said:
at this point it makes no matter to me (and many many others) weather or not the OP actually bred the snake or just threw a party when she gave him unexpected eggs. The OP is irresponsible and uncaring of his poor animals. Multiple posts from him have proven that (go read his other threads if you haven't gotten a clear picture of his character yet) and until he grows up or gets out of this hobby, his poor animals will continue to suffer....that is the biggest shame of all =(
(not to mention the obvious enjoyment he gets from trolling about it all)
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I still think about what a loser you were
 
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