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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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Hey, I just purchased one of these, and compared to my Exo-Terra Heatwave Heat Mats, I kinda like it better. The heat seems more spread out and it seems to hold the heat in the cage better. Just my opinon though. I'd appreciate anyone else's opinions on these, and also if they know places to buy them besides petco, like online places. Thanks -Art-
 
Nero557 said:
Hey, I just purchased one of these, and compared to my Exo-Terra Heatwave Heat Mats, I kinda like it better. The heat seems more spread out and it seems to hold the heat in the cage better. Just my opinon though. I'd appreciate anyone else's opinions on these, and also if they know places to buy them besides petco, like online places. Thanks -Art-
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Is there a difference in the wattage between the two that could be making it feel hotter and hence more evenly distibuted?
 
That's a fairly good question to ask, I don't know why I didn't even look for that when I purchased, I mean I was in a hurry and they didn't have the exo terra ones that I normally purchase... Now that you mentioned it, I was looking for it and on the box, on the petco website, and a few other sites, I can't find the wattage of any of the mats... So, you are probably right in being a higher wattage, but I'm not really sure.
 
The reason I mentioned that is just recently a customer of mine had switched all of his heating products over to what he thought was a better designed product when in fact it was just a higher wattage element. With the sheer volume that he switched over...he never recalculated the added wattage and was on the verge of overloading his thermostat.

Mind you I don't really know the size or extent of your heating changes, or if an upgrade to your thermostat would be necessary, but I thought I should mention it for safety sake if your changes are going to be made on a grand scale.

(For the record his difference for heating on one cage was +7 watts. Multiply that by 50 and he gained +350 watts to his thermostat load. He has somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300-400 cages I believe.)

Good Luck and great chatting with you.....
 
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it, I wouldn't want anything to happen to my babies, I only have 3 bp's right now, but I see how that could make a huge difference.
 
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That's a fairly good question to ask, I don't know why I didn't even look for that when I purchased, I mean I was in a hurry and they didn't have the exo terra ones that I normally purchase... Now that you mentioned it, I was looking for it and on the box, on the petco website, and a few other sites, I can't find the wattage of any of the mats... So, you are probably right in being a higher wattage, but I'm not really sure.
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You should look around on the package itself or even on the pad and sometimes on the power wire for the pad it will have the wattage of the element..
 
Sorry it took me a while to respond, yeah you were right, it's on the pad by the wire, it's double the wattage of the other pads I have, but it still seems quite a bit hotter than I would assume the other brand of pad would be even at the same larger size.... I don't know, I'm not a whiz on snakes, I'm more of a lizard guy, but I do love my pythons and am trying to learn as much as I can about them so they can have the best life possible.
 
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