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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.

First rosy litter born! And a question.

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My female albino Harquahala (thanks AncientDNA) dropped a semi-unexpected litter yesterday. She was acting gravid, but we weren't sure since it was so late in the season and she hadn't given birth. Well, she was, and we have two beautiful baby albino Harqs now. I've bred other boas before, but this is my first rosy litter. They are super cute!

Quick question for you rosy boa breeders out there. How often should baby rosy boas be receiving water? My adults do well with a monthly watering, but I was wondering if babies might need it more frequently.

Any other tidbits of info on raising baby rosies would be greatly appreciated. I've done my reading, but I'm always looking for more info from those more experienced than I am.
 
Congrats!
The best place for rosy info is localityrosys.com.
-JC
 
I never restricted water to my desert or coastal rosy boas...they always had (& have) a small bowl of water. My thinking is that our houses are far more dehydrating than life in the wild, where going underground is a built-in humidifier. Consider the heat in our houses and in their cages, how much that takes moisture out of the air...it sure makes MY skin dry in the winter too! All the best...
 
If your rosy boas get into the habit of soaking, particularly when not near shed, then restrict water access.

Otherwise water bowls isn't the issue, humidity is. If the cage is open air, and the ambient humidity low (30% or less), then continual access to a small partially filled bowl of clean water is not an issue.

You may find, desert/arid species they may be, they do drink more frequently than you might expect. Particularly newborns, which will be spending their first several weeks until their first shed growing on stored resources.
 
I should also add that I have always housed my rosy boas in "open air" cages, not the plastic types with very little air-flow. I use glass tanks with UTH & screen tops...and I
cannot recall ever seeing any of my rosy boas soaking in their water bowls, but they do
drink as desired. I think the more choices we can offer our captive snakes, the better
off they'll be since they cannot signal their needs to us.
 
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