• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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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Ophis said:
How old is it? What Sex is it? What history do you have on it?
It's about 2 years old. it was sold to me from a breader, and i'm having to force feed it with this stuff. it's a male. i'm guessing an import
 
theres a few things you can do to get it to eat. try taking a mouse and dipping it in tune juice or get a fresh kill and cut it open and swing in front of his face let him smell the blood, this always works for me get something alot smaller and swing in front of him. also make sure its not to cold other wise he wont eat becuase he wont beable to digest but with the GTP cant have it to hot either. getting something alot smaller to eat has worked on a number of snakes for me from ball pythons to gopher snakes to burmese pythons the burmese i had to through pinkies in there with him and he eat right away and then starting eating large mice he was a baby burm so large mice was the biggest i could go but he has eatin everyday sence then. it works with ball pythons wich is unusall becuase balls are notorius for not eating i think the record is 18 months or something close. but anywasy i hope i can be to some sort of assitance to you. hope this works. if you get it to work i would love to know about it. nothing like a healthy snake. email me at canyonstatereptiles@juno.com. update me if you wouldnt mind, good luck
 
88reptiles said:
theres a few things you can do to get it to eat. try taking a mouse and dipping it in tune juice or get a fresh kill and cut it open and swing in front of his face let him smell the blood, this always works for me get something alot smaller and swing in front of him. also make sure its not to cold other wise he wont eat becuase he wont beable to digest but with the GTP cant have it to hot either. getting something alot smaller to eat has worked on a number of snakes for me from ball pythons to gopher snakes to burmese pythons the burmese i had to through pinkies in there with him and he eat right away and then starting eating large mice he was a baby burm so large mice was the biggest i could go but he has eatin everyday sence then. it works with ball pythons wich is unusall becuase balls are notorius for not eating i think the record is 18 months or something close. but anywasy i hope i can be to some sort of assitance to you. hope this works. if you get it to work i would love to know about it. nothing like a healthy snake. email me at canyonstatereptiles@juno.com. update me if you wouldnt mind, good luck
whoa...thanks. that really helps. i'll try each of those. i'll let ya know if he eats.
-Alex
 
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