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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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Candoia baby Fiji Boas first shed pics

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The baby Fiji boas are now three months old and going into shed like crazy! Here are pics of one of the orange ones - these are just glowing golden when they shed out.

This one was the runt - 7gms in last photos now a strapping 12 gms and gorging on gecko tails (held in chopsticks) once a week. :)

This post: pre-shed feeding pics, next post - what a difference a day makes!
 

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And literally 48 hours later, post shed in glorious technicolour!
 

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Corrigan

and her name is Corrigan: "Little Queen"

"Corrigan, according to the folklore of Brittany is a female færy. She is said to have been one of the ancient druidesses, and therefore malicious towards Christian priests. Corrigan is fond of pretty human children, and is usually blamed for all changeling substitutions."
 
Awesome pics. She looks amazing. Just curious, where are you getting the gecko tails from?
 
Payara said:
Just curious, where are you getting the gecko tails from?
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We have house geckos all over the place, so we literally pick them off the walls! :yesnod: (I'm in a tropical environment)

Problem is finding ones small enough for these babies, as they really need hatchlings. I have friends with properties out in wooded areas where they get very large house geckos (and even larger forest geckos), so they catch them for me, we kill and freeze them, then break off the tails for the babies and feed the bodies to the adults - waste not want not!

We even have a small cottage industry going - I pay kids from local villages 50c per gecko if they bring them in alive.... :D
 
looking great! I'm so glad they are doing well! The gecko tail being eaten is such a cute pic!

(nice rings too! I love big/lots of rings)
 
Helenthereef said:
We have house geckos all over the place, so we literally pick them off the walls! :yesnod: (I'm in a tropical environment)

Problem is finding ones small enough for these babies, as they really need hatchlings. I have friends with properties out in wooded areas where they get very large house geckos (and even larger forest geckos), so they catch them for me, we kill and freeze them, then break off the tails for the babies and feed the bodies to the adults - waste not want not!

We even have a small cottage industry going - I pay kids from local villages 50c per gecko if they bring them in alive.... :D
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This might be stupid question, but don't the adults get big enough to eat mice? Or are they just too hard to wean off of gecko?

AbsoluteApril said:
The gecko tail being eaten is such a cute pic!
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Payara said:
This might be stupid question, but don't the adults get big enough to eat mice? Or are they just too hard to wean off of gecko?


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I'm sure they'd eat mice in time - the adults have taken a mouse and also a rat with great enthusiasm. I don't feed them those because I'm not in a place where reliable and clean food animals are available (Fiji!). The ones I've used were obtained by friend's cats and dogs! :dgrin:

Thanks for nice comments everyone, I'm loving raising these - so far 6 out of the 13 have found new (adoring!) families, 2 are awaiting pick up, and one has made a (successful) jail break and is roaming free....
 
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