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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.
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  • Herps Alive!
    We would love a silkworm donation and could feed them off quickly, although we do have a ready supply of mulberry leaves. Donations like this are very helpful to us to stretch our food budget. Our mailing address (my office, since we are not always at the rescue) is Herps Alive Foundation, 1687 Lee Road, Cleveland Hts., OH 44118. If you enclose a zeroed out invoice, we can provide an IRS Tax receipt if you like. Thanks again! Keith Gisser
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    That's cool, but all of the ones I've listed have been proven by breeding not just assumption,pinstripe produced 75 pinstripes no normals, super leo isn't even debatable because dozens have been proven out and everyone knows about them, I would agree the super spider and woma are irrelevent because they're usually lethal even though a handful have lived, but there's absolutely no reason a super calico couldn't happen. Super pin looks like a regular pin which is why brian assumed there was no super, and super Leo's are also very hard to discern, and if you do the math, calicos are so variable that the super would likely be impossible to discern from a high white. People like Brant at MLR have written about this stuff and how it would be impossible for a mutation to "deny" an egg to receive the same copy of a mutation from both parents. I won't bug you anymore lol, no point, if you want to see more you can google and see that the stuff ive told you is real, and peolle will make more supers and prove it even further as time goes on, and at the end of the day it doesn't matter, you have awesome animals and that all that counts, I think the osmosis is awesome, and you will do well with it if you play your cards right, are the calicos in the add still available? I'm thinking about getting one, maybe I'll prove it to you personally lol. Good luck either way, I can't wait to see what you make with this project, imo you should steer towards clown osmosis projects, it's low pattern and you can't go wrong with clown these days, I saw a champagne calico clown the other day and was insane.
    snowgyre
    I'm not offended, it's that there is insufficient evidence over the decade I've been actively involved in the ball python community and breeding ball pythons myself to believe there are proven super forms of the morphs you listed. All the super forms you discuss were "surmised", not proven. If there were super forms of these morphs, they would've been available by now and at a premium price. These things don't stay secret for long, even if they're simply non-viable or didn't prove out. I will not advertise my animals for something I don't believe exists, based upon the best available evidence I have at my disclosure.
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