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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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Has anyone noticed this on all of his ads?

"***Spider gene free lineage. If you don't want spider neurological disorders in your stock, You shouldn't use snakes that have spider in there lineage.
An example of this, A breeder breeds a spider clown to a normal and produces spider het clowns and het clowns.
The normal het clowns can and do at times carry the negative neurological genes. I have seen the same neurological disorders in these snakes as I have seen in spider and spider morphs.
I have discussed this with other breeders that have seen and/or had this in their collections also.
I would be happy to discuss this with anyone by phone who has witnessed this or who would like more information."

What is this? I've never heard of this, or spoken to anyone who's ever heard of it.

Is this just some sales gimmick?
 
Never heard of which part.....You've never heard of the spider gene and the neurological defects that come along with it?
 
i thought the spider potential neoro issues in the bp world were nearly as infamous as the jaguar neuro issues in the cp world....i dont do bp,s and even i am fully aware of it....
nothing new at all
 
Black Adder said:
i thought the spider potential neoro issues in the bp world were nearly as infamous as the jaguar neuro issues in the cp world....i dont do bp,s and even i am fully aware of it....
nothing new at all
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They're much more so infamous seeing as how the spider ball gene preceded the jaguar carpet by close to a decade (I think) lol.
 
The claim made in the quoted portion seems specious. If the claimed observations are legitimate for some reason, the explanation in that quoted portion is not biologically sound.
 
Of course I know of the spider "issue", I own several animals with the spider gene.

I have never once heard of a "spider sibling" having nuero defects, and I've never spoken to anyone who has.

I should have been more specific, sorry.
 
I'm NOT a Ball Python geneticist, so excuse me if this is a dumb question.... but I presume that there is at least an outside possibility that a spider sibling carrying recessive genetics for the neurological defects but not expressing them, breeds with another the same, there is at least a chance that a certain percentage of offspring (possibly a very low one) could express the wobble?

Or is it certain that no wobble means no gene?
 
If the neurological dysfunction is due to the presence and expression of the spider gene, the siblings not having any copies of the gene present at all should not exhibit neurological dysfunction from that source.

Instead of no dysfunction meaning no gene, the order should be thought of as gene first and expression second.
 
I can think of something else, but I want to see the person making the claim of the spider-gene-lacking animals having the same neurological dysfunction defend his statements.
 
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