• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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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.

Almost gave up

Royal Morphz

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This is a morph I almost gave up on earlier in the year because in four years I hadn't produced one. This year made up for it. 8 of 10 in 2 clutches
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Thanks for looking guys.
 
Now that is a nice tub! Were you breeding visual male to het females? That is a long time to not get any visuals
 
These came from pied to pied 5 egger and pied to hey 7 egger. My terrible odds in the past few years came from not getting a clutch from my visual females and my hets not proving yet. Worked out this year I also hit on a Pastel Pied male earlier in the season.
 
Royal Morphz said:
These came from pied to pied 5 egger and pied to hey 7 egger. My terrible odds in the past few years came from not getting a clutch from my visual females and my hets not proving yet. Worked out this year I also hit on a Pastel Pied male earlier in the season.
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Congrats!!:thumbsup:
 
Fantastic pair of clutches!! I'm hoping for at least one clutch this year, but with a 100% het to het breeding I know my chances are probably pretty dismal, especially since this will be the female's first breeding. She's at 989 grams now and eating like a hog, I'm hoping to throw another couple hundred grams on her by spring. With any luck I'll get a late clutch, if not, I'll try next year.
 
Congratulations! They look wonderful and you really produced a good verity of white coverage from high to low. If my het to het pairings do not work out this year I am getting a visual male to go with my ladies. I know. . . I know (patience is a virtue preacher) :rolleyes: but the waiting is getting to me.
 
Awesome job! Good things do come to those who wait! Not only you got your morph, but a 80% pied cluch is just amazing!

PS: can you rub those odds on me please! got a lemon pastel het pied w/ a Blonde pastel het pied would LOVE to see some pasty pieds or get real lucky w/ a killer pied!
 
congrats they all look amazing but that one right in the middle with almost no white is stunning!!!!
 
I agree that low white is hot but they're all amazing! Very very nice and congrats!!!
 
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