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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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How many reptiles do you own?

How many reptiles do you keep?

  • zero

    Votes: 4 0.9%

  • 1-5

    Votes: 91 19.6%

  • 6-20

    Votes: 153 32.9%

  • 21-50

    Votes: 102 21.9%

  • 51-100

    Votes: 52 11.2%

  • 100 plus

    Votes: 63 13.5%
  • Total voters
    465
Hmmmmmmmmm

After years of keeping and breeding various colubrids, boids, lizards and bugs; I've evolved to the pinnacle of ophidian evolution - Crotalus. Right now it's 12 species and sub-species. I mostly work with locale specific NA and a few Mexican, Central and South American. Looking for any of the Mexican montane species. Oh yeah, one gator (the recycler) four pyromelana, one Trimorphodon and one Coleonyx. NO SMELLY MAMMALS (except for the mouse colony out in the barn). Don't you guys realize - mammals and birds are feeder animals only. Sorry!
 
I now have 2 male ball pythons (one 100% het for albino the other one %50 for het for albino), 2 normal females and two corn snakes, one male and one female. I have a male GSD dog and a female cat. I also raise mice and rats. As of right now, for the mice, I have 8 females and 2 males in mice and 6 of the females (maybe all of them) are pregnant. I have 3 female rats and one male. I have (along with my mom) own 2 miniature horse stallions and 2 mares and two adorible fillys. That is my collection. My mom and I raise, breed, train, and show the minis. Our smalles adult mini is only 29 inches tall and our tallest is 37 inches tall. We have only one mare who is gravid ;) pregnant (11 months to gestate)
 
howmany, how many

I, myself, have 24 snakes (12 ball pythons, 6 western hognose, 3 dumeril boas, 2 Brazilian rainbow boas and 1 albino California kingsnake) and, of course, a Red-Lored Amazon. The parrot is queen.
Now, since I live with and pay rent to a very good friend, and as part of the rent I help tend his critters - well, together we care for 130 snakes, 2 cats, 9 collared lizards, 3 Ackies (yellow), 5 giant day geckos, 2 Standings' geckos and her highness, Alexandra the Amazon parrot.
I'm tired.
Kare :sleeping:
 
I haven't been here in a while. Sorry!! :nuts:

1.1 Dwarf Tiger Retic
1.1 Jampea
1.0 Jampea Het (albino)
0.1 Dwarf Super
1.1 Dwarf Gen. Stripe
1.1 Dwarf albino Retic
2.1 Dumeril Boa
1.1 Jungle carpet x Diamond
1.1 Ringed Pythons
2.2 Woma
1.1 Black head Pythons
1.1 Leucistic Pine
0.1 Hog Nose
0.0.1 False water Cobra
0.0.1 Blue Tegu
1.0 Savanah Monitor
1.1 Albino Gecko's
3 Trantula's
1.1 Wolf mix
0.1 mix Mutt
1.1 Sugar Gliders

Plus 4 Gravid females :dancer01:
 
I have two male jungle carpets, three female jungle carpets and i have one male and one female Irian jaya carpet pythons.

Lawrence
 
Wow, I voted on this poll at sometime and never posted my list of critters!
Here goes:

2.2.0 BCI
1.0.0 BCC
0.0.7 Various corns
1.1.0 Sumatran blood python
1.1.0 Blue Beauties
1.0.3 Ball python
1.1.0 Black Mexican King
0.1.0 Banana Cali King

1.3.0 Leopard gecko
1.1.0 Flying gecko
1.1.0 Tokay gecko
1.1.0 African Fattail gecko
0.1.0 Pictus gecko

1.1.0 Mongrel canine
1.3.0 Rat

I'd like to get out of corns and BPs though. Would like more bloods and BCIs.

Not a bad list for getting my first reptile 3 years ago.
 
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0.0.1 Columbian Redtail Boa ("Ash")
1.0 Dumeril's Boa ("Genghis")
0.1 Coastal Carpet Python ("Eden")
0.1 Jungle Carpet Python (unnamed)
1.0 Black Blood Python ("Dakstren")
1.1.1 Sumatran Red Blood Pythons ("Raistlin", "Ember", & "Rambo")

Plus various breeder rats and mice. Oh, and a Texas Tiger Salamander that i bought for a friend because she wanted a salamander, then turned her nose up at it because she thought it was cruel and disgusting that they eat live food. so now im stuck with it.
 
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"Last edited by handsomeRob : 06-18-2005 at 05:11 AM. Reason: hukd on fonix "

ROFLMAO

Rob, you really are something! This is PRICELESS!!! Thanks!!!
 
LMAO, I never even noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out, kiote, I needed a laugh. :D I can't remember if I posted my list, and I'm too lazy to go back and look. And if I did post it, it has probably changed since then. So, here ya go:

2.2 BCI (I think, need to probe one female to make sure she's a she)
0.1 yellow & orange ATB
0.1 JCP
0.1 pueblan milk
0.0.1 WC garter (kept because it had a tail injury)
1.1 blue beauties
0.1 normal corn- my son's new snake
1.0 green tree monitor
2.3 cresties

probably adding soon (if the people who owe me money pay me!)

1.0 argie that I sold to make my ex happy- didn't work, now did it? The guy I sold him to has offered to sell him back but I have to come up with the money.
0.1 BCI from a NICE male that I've been wanting a daughter from, and a HUGE female

Not as big as some collections, but a house full for me because most of them live in my bedroom, which is not all that big. I am *so* ready for a bigger house, but I just can't afford it right now!
 
Shannon, I do understand about snakes in the bedroom and not having room. I have 18 snakes and 8 geckos in my bedroom. Then 1 snake & 2 geckos in the livingroom, and 3 snakes and 1 gecko in the diningroom. Then I have the snake in the basement and the 2 baby corns that are loose in the house "somewhere". I have another female boa coming next weekend and I have 2 cages now that I can clean and set up, just have to figure out which one to put her in and where to put it. The geckos just might end up in the kids rooms after all!
 
actually no! everyone asks me that but Ash is NOT named after bruce campbell's character in 'evil dead'. i named him that because when i got him he wasa kind of dirty grey....like ash. now he is tan....go figure. i do own the evil dead trilogy and its a great collection but honestly i didnt name my snake after the character.
 
Hey, I name my critters after characters from books & movies all the time - are you saying I'm lame and unoriginal? :raspberry
 
Okay, I'll play!!

I'm pretty much a boa girl
1.1 albino het snow (from Greg Riso)
1.0 albino 66% het snow (From Craig Kade)
1.0 ghost (2004 holdback)
0.1 hypo het anery (2004 holdback)
0.1 Anery (From Dale Speckin)
1.0 screaming hypo (from Dale Speckin)
0.1 Natural beauty normal bci (my first litter holdback)
1.1 Cay's (mom's gravid)
1.1 Hog island
2.2 crested gecko's
A pet rat named Moo (they're not just for breakfast anymore)
2 red min pin's,Sugar Baby and Sarah, an 8 month old yellow lab named Soloman. A husband, my pride and joy 19 year old identicle twin girls (They act like my old argentine at times)
 
Need to update LOL

I haven't posted here in ages. Since my last visit i have increased my animal family. Lets see, i now have a male veiled chameleon named Merlin and a male ball python named Jack to go along with my dog, 2 cats, 12 leos, 2 crested geckos and 4 african fattailed geckos. As much as i love all reptiles i'm now completely in love with ball pythons and will be adding more as soon as i can :)

Red
 
DragonCharm said:
Well at the White Plains show I picked up 6 corns, and 2 more corns and 2 more female balls this week. What a damn habit, bought 13 snakes in the past 2 months. :(
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Wow, how quickly things change.....now at 26 snakes as of today when I got a male lavender corn in the mail.....
 
I'm a novice next to most of you all.

5.6 Red Tail Boa's
2.2 Python's (Burm, Retic, Ball & Blood)
.1 Bearded Dragon -Sandfire
.? Southern Alligator Lizard
.? Emperor Scorpion baby
1.2 Tarantula's
P. Regalis=Indian Ornamental / C. Cyneopubescens=Greenbottle / G. Rosea=Chilean Rose Hair
.1 Siamese Hybrid​
I also have horses but they're at a boarding stable in Bakersfield, CA. with my ex right now. I have a AQHA Palomino mare & a bay AQHA mare out of the Palomino
 
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