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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.

Another Male Sorong-type...

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This is my male from Shawn Gray at Sunbaked Serpents. This one came to me as a yellow yearling and I got to watch pretty much the entire color change process which was awesome. He was a yellow neonate and he began changing at about 17 months old and the change from start to finish took 11 days. Luckily he developed quite alot of nice blue.

Thanks for looking. Cheers!

And please, let's see some pics from some of you other arboreal enthusiasts out there. I know alot of you have pictures and awesome snakes, so let's see them:D
 

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All very beautiful snakes Rob, I am a big fan of chondros myself.

What interested me though was your descriptive method. I haven't been closely following the trends in the chondro community for some time, so this may be commonplace now, but you are the first person I have noticed refering to a chondro as a "type" as in Biak type or Sorong type, as opposed to inferring locality information.

I really like this approach. I have always had problems with locality labels used for chondros. To me, the use of a locality label should be limited to the offspring of two snakes where the originating locality is unquestionably the same, and at any point down the line should one be bred to a specimen of a different or not fully known locality, then the label must be abandoned.
It is my belief that many imported chondros were designated a locality description either at the exporters facility or after entering this country based on their outward appearance. While many may have been accurate, there was invariably alot that wasn't, and this rendered the label useless for it's intended purpose.

Using the locality name to infer a certain look by adding the word type rectifies this situation in a sense. There are some who are interested in the locality regardless of the appearance, and others who want the appearance associated with a certain locality. This suits both needs. The "type" descriptor does not claim exact locality, so as not to mislead the purest of the purists, but at the same time is descriptive of the appearance based on a generally accepted format.

I just wanted to mention that, since I hadn't before seen a decent approach to a situation I have always felt bore certain terminal flaws.
The same can be said for several other types of snakes that commonly bear locality tags since dealers realized that the addition of one could increase their marketability.
 
Clay,

thanks, but I definitely didn't originate the idea of adding "type" after a locality name. However, as you said, there are not a big number of people using it. I am bad about it sometimes, though, and will slip into just calling something a Biak instead of a Biak-type.

But as you said, too many people just throw it around that because an animal looks like the generally accepted locality phenotype, it originated from that locality regardless. Look at the kingsnake classifieds for examples of this. I see ads all the time of people selling "Biak locale" or "Locality pure arus" and other similar trite. I have no problem with someone saying that it is an Aru-type or just plain saying Biak, but when they ad such taglines as "locale specific" and "locality pure," 99% of the people do not have what they claim. If you were to actually have true locality animals, they would have to be documented as to where they or the parent animals were collected originally(even though WC chondros are supposedly illegal to import, but that is another matter I will address in another thread). Also, thanks to the "locality craze" going on in the chondro market, many people are more prone to buy animals that sport the tags of "locality pure" as opposed to those that just say "type" or "unknown locality."

The unfortunate problem is that due to the amazing variability of chondros, an animal could be locality documented, and not match up with the accepted phenotype(there was an excellent example and discussion of this regarding Merauke chondros several weeks ago at chondroweb.com in the breeder forum). So you could have some of the animals being marketed as "Aru locality" that are in fact from Mainland Irian Jaya, but since they look like what Arus are SUPPOSED to, that is how they are being marketed.

Oh geez, I've ranted on this whole thing in an inappropriate forum. lol Nothing new about that;)

Thanks for the compliments Clay. Although I don't have any super high-end animals yet, I am very happy and proud of my chondro collection thus far and hopefully I'll be a proud chondro-poppa in the next few months:D

Cheers!
 
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