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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.

Cro Fab antivenin

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Have any of you people heard about a new treatment for snakebite using Cro Fab, a new antivenin treatment derived from sheep plasma rather than the older horse-derived antivenin? I'm sure some of you people are more updated on these things than I am. I just read an article in my local Herpetological newsletter about this. Sounds very promising.
 
CroFab has been in use for a number of years now. I'm not too sure on the exact date it was made available, but its been administered since 2002, possibly earlier.

John
 
I really should keep notes...I read somewhere recently (and I think it was a reliable source) that CroFab will not be "the thing" in the not too distant future.
 
HH If you recall where, shoot me a link.

Crofab has been around for a while. Sheep seem to have a semi imunity to N A crotalids, and they have used this (ovine) and equine crofabs for treatment. This was a while back that I read this, and don't have a link for you. Sorry. I also seem to recall that in early development, they were trying for a vaccine type of thing.

Rick
 
Bioclon

out of Mexico is a better product and more affordable. I read somewhere that Crofab has been having problems with bite symptons occuring a week and half after treatment.
 
CroFab seems to have some trouble treating highly neurotoxic envenomations. As Tim said, BioClon is supposed to be much better at treating such envenomations. CroFab is in the process of improving the serum, it should be interesting.
 
Well i received CroFab with my crotalus adamanteus envenomation, and the bite was highly neurotoxic and CroFab worked great. i had no problems, but i have heard of this BioColn on the venomdoc fourms. so which ever antivenin most hospitals decide to use lets just hope it's a good choice.
 
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