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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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Sorry for the ridiculous title, I'm just so excited I could spontaneously combust...or self implode, one of the two. Just paid off my extreme reduced pattern albino girl, and as soon as we get a warm enough day, she'll be coming home! I seriously cannot wait to rip open that box and see her for myself, the pictures just are NOT cutting it anymore. LOL!

My pretty little girl:

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I asked Josh @ Outback Reptiles if he had pics of her siblings from the same clutch, since he had told me they all had some degree of this crazy reduced patterning, and he sent me a few of them all. There were 2 males, 2 females. They all have some interesting markings, like yellow along their lips/heat pits, broken Y-shaped white areas that cut off their eye stripes, etc.

Man, I wish I had enough to get one of her brothers, particularly this one:

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Then these are her other brother (1) and her sister (2) -- not quite as extreme, but still really interesting:

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I really wish I could see all 4 of them together side by side and compare markings, traits, etc. But, I'm just happy I was able to get my girl, she is "The One" I have been looking for for months. I always wait until I get that absolute gotta-have-it, can't-live-without-that-snake feeling, and as soon as I saw her, that was it. Some things are just worth waiting for! Now to get her raised up and ready for her boyfriend, a genetic co-dom reduced pattern male that is 50% poss. het albino. :D
 
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Wow! Her brother (first pic that is NOT your girl) is amazing with such a small amount of white! But your girl is gorgeous! Congrats!! And, as terrible as it to have to WAIT....ain't it a great feeling, knowing what's coming to your house?!?!!!!!! ;)
 
OMFG, it's seriously dead-on to what you feel when you're 6 years old, laying in your bed Christmas Eve, knowing what is coming over night, trying your damndest to go to sleep but not being able to...LOL!

I should ask Josh if he sold that top brother or not, see if we can work something out if I get my taxes back before she ships. I would absolutely love to have the pair of them to work with (not together) and at least get the brother working on some hets 10-12 months from now. It's gonna be a loooooooooong 18-24 months to get the girl raised up and then a loooooooooong 4-6 month breeding season after that with some majorly high hopes. :ack2:

I know it's not some huge money-maker or some new spectacular project, but albinos were my first love when I discovered the world of BP morphs and when I first came to Fauna forever-ago. Creating ones like these were my very first breeding goal that I never forgot about. So for me, this is epic. :thumbsup:
 
Then you better be good, and not cry or pout or you know what'll happen!!! :eek: :rofl:
 
Josh saw my thread and dropped me a note that the extreme brother that I want is still available! So I need to get my damn taxes finished TODAY, that way my refund gets deposited within the next 10 days and I can get him in with my girl's shipment. :thumbsup:
 
Very nice Jen!! I was looking at those albinos not to long ago recently myself...nearly bought your girl there lol...I'd be looking into picking up that boy if you weren't planning to already lol...good grab on those babies =)
 
Great looking snakes, Congrats on your purchase and good luck with them!
 
I'm not which I'm more jealous of...those really gorgeous albinos, or the fact that you get money BACK for your taxes!!! :D LOL...awesome pick-up!!
 
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I'm not which I'm more jealous of...those really gorgeous albinos, or the fact that you get money BACK for your taxes!!! :D LOL...awesome pick-up!!
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Single mom, 2 jobs, don't make crap for income, rent an apartment instead of owning a home, deductions for about everything under the sun, etc. Uncle Sam redistributes the cash flow I guess. I always use it to pay down debt on my credit report and leave a little off the top to buy something I've been wanting as a reward for being responsible with the refund money. :D Over 4 years I've been able to pay down a lot of crap and have about 3 things left, and that's it.
 
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