• 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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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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.

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
My collection of snakes is currently under 50 (not counting seasonal babies) and this seems to be a good number for me to reasonably manage at this time. I also have 2 pet geckos and 3 cats. It's a pretty full house. :)
 
I have two beautiful Border Collie 1 year olds - blue merle! I have four cats. And I have two leopard geckos, one soon to be three standings day geckos, four baby giant madagascar day geckos, four chinese fire belly toads, pair of williams dwarf day geckos, two pair orange lamasi dart frogs, two pair of leucomelas dart frogs, and assorted guppies and zebras in the pool of the fire belly tank. My fun on the side is creating tank builds with natural plants, driftwood and soil!
 
we got 26 snakes and with 3 possible gravid females will soon go up depending on what we produce.

my mother had 30+ cats (same reason they kept getting dumped off.) I told her they had to go cause with her in a wheelchair she could not do all the keep up(feeding them outside and such) I not sure how many she gotten in the last 2 years since I left home. ( I could not stand the cat scratches on my truck.. by the last I checked she had less than 6 ( not my sister who lives with mom now they ( her and kids ) probably got at least 10 of their own.
 
I've got seven at the moment. Three Corns, one Ball Python, one Green Tree Python, one California King Snake, and one Red-Tail Boa. I also have two cats (it used to be three, but we had to put one down last November. Fifteen years old and suffering from kidney failure. :( I miss her a lot.) and one dog.
 
I'm up to 49 right now with at least one huge emerald tree boa gravid..
25 ball pythons of various morphs
5 emerald tree boas 1.4
7 amazon tree boas 2.3.2 1 gravid female
1 green tree python female
1 reticulated super dwarf female
2 BCI male anery and female ghost 1.1
8 baby ball pythons ready for new homes :)

always looking for more ETBs snakes are adictive hehe
 
Let’s see I have:
0.1 rio fuerte beaded lizard still a baby
27 ball pythons 6.21 clown, pied, pastel, one BEL and many in the complex, ghi, banana, albino, and more
2.2 carpet pythons 2 Carmel jags two genetic stripes
1.0 platinum reticulated python
1.2 Florida king snakes. Localities where they keep their pattern. Male is hypo
2.1 albino and 2.1 normal Florida kings I produced this fall I have left from a clutch of 10.
0.0.9 ball pythons from a pair with a wild female caught in 2004. There’s a potential new axanthic looking morph. Going to breed a son of hers from 3 years ago with my pastel het tsk female to confirm it’s not a related gene because it’s apparent to maybe be a codom!
 
I have:
1.4.4 Crested geckos
0.0.1 P. grandis gecko
0.1.0 White lined gecko
2.2.0 African fat tailed geckos
0.1.0 Ball python
0.0.3 White's tree frogs

I'm going to be starting my first breeding season with my cresteds and fat tails around February and I'm excited to see what comes out!
 
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