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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.

Kyle James

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<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>  <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> Where is this guy? I struck a deal with him in the Spring and he is not returning my e-mails. He is from Texas and has a Ball Python collection. Any clues for me? Please help. THX!
 
Full name, otherwise I'll delete.

Also, elaborate a bit more. Was he supposed to buy something from you or sell you something? Also, what was his email addy? Details are what make this board work.
 
It seems to take kyle james a while to get back to people.
Usually a week to a few weeks or he just forgets.
I did a deal with him and while were exchanging emails about the snakes he was real quick to write back but now after the deal is done, it takes him a while to answer my questions.

-Mike Gearino
www.TOTALLYREPTILES.com
 
Kyle James' email addy is (was) [email protected]  that email is registered to a Sarah James.

I am waiting for a pair of hets to be proven out before I make my final decision on this person.

I cannot recomment his customer service or his ethics.

I have his physical address but will not post it here publically.

James Bryan
 
kyle james continued

He sold us 0.2 het for albino, but did not ship the snakes until we threatened legal action. He shipped them immediately afterwards. We received two nice females but no paperwork as was clearly stated and promised. I still have the 0.2 "het" for albino he sold us. He never did send paperwork as promised. He repeatedly promised to send paperwork, even going so far as saying it was sent on several occasions but it never arrived. He stopped answering the phone and stopped replying to emails.

We bought a male albino to prove out these females sooner than our het male could. We now have eggs incubating as of two weeks ago so will find out soon whether they were hets or not. If they are hets, I will post it here.

I heard from another breeder that he was attempting to once again sell "het" albino females showing the paperwork that was never sent to me.

If they are hets, then we were not ripped off, but were also lied to repeatedly.

Update to come after hatching.

James Bryan
 
Kyle James sold us normals as "het albino"

The eggs hatched. 7 normal appearing babies from one of these so called "het for albino" and our VPI High Contrast Albino male we pruchased from BARR. Should have some albinos right? WRONG
Kyle James scams again.


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See any albino

James Bryan
Who was scammed by kyle james along with plenty of others.
 
I don't know anything about this situation but I'm a little puzzled as to why you feel you have been scammed because you have 7 normal looking babies.

What did you mate her to?? If she's normal het for albino and you mate her to another normal, the babies will be normal, wont they?

Or, if you mate her to a normal het for albino, there's only a chance you'll get an albino in the clutch but if you mate her to an albino, you should get some albino and some normals. Am I wrong here?

Also, isn't "het" just a possibility based on hidden traits, not a guarantee??
 
"het" means the animal is carrying half the genes required to display a recessive trait.

James I questioned you on one of the other threads and hadn't read this one, I apologize.

Still however unlikely, the odds might be against you this clutch.

I'd say its safe to go with your instinct on this one though :(
 
He said those eggs were from the "het" from Kyle James bred to an albino male.

Somewhere around half of the babies should have been albino; any normal looking baby from that clutch is 100% het albino.

While there is a very SLIM chance of producing no albinos from an albino x het clutch, it is pretty safe to assume that in this case that the "hets" from Kyle James are normals.
 
I'm sorry...I'm still having trouble with this. Like I said, I don't know the seller or anything but I think he's being treated unfairly here and it bothers me.

If you have two Ball pythons, that are positively, without a doubt het for Albino and they are mated, the offspring will have 4 possible outcomes; AA, Aa, Aa, aa. This means that 1/4 will be albino. 3/4 of them will appear normal and will possibly be het for albino but only 2 of those 3 will actually be truly hets.

So, when one sells the offspring, they will say they are "het for albino." There's no way to know for sure until the snake is mated later and the offspring are accounted for. However, the seller has not misrepresented the snake...they've done the best they could and as a buyer, you're taking a chance. There are no guarantees with genes that don't outwardly present themselves.

And, in this case...with only 7 eggs, isn't there the possibility that the snake is truly het but the normal came through on the high side?
 
normal: AA
albino: aa
het albino: Aa

the buyer bought what were represented as female het albinos (Aa) and bred them to his male albino (aa)

A a
a Aa aa

a Aa aa

50% of the offspring should be visibly albino and the rest will be het albino.

It is always possible that the odds were not in his favor, but with 7 offspring you would think you'd see at least 1?

Combined with not providing the papertrail, I do tend to lean towards the females being normals in which case 100% of the offspring are het albino.
 
"It is always possible that the odds were not in his favor, but with 7 offspring you would think you'd see at least 1?"

Yes!! That's my point. :) There's only 7 babies...not a very big clutch to base this on.

But...look on the bright side. All 7 of those babies are now positively het for albino, without a doubt!
 
Sybella said:
But...look on the bright side. All 7 of those babies are now positively het for albino, without a doubt!
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Yes but consider the difference in price between 2 het albinos and 2 normals and then try to look at the bright side :eek:
 
Genetics 101

Let me interject a comment here.

Mendellian genetics is only based on statistical probabilities. One factor that just cannot be quantified is 'luck'. When you breed two animals together that are both heterozygous for a single common gene, the odds are 1 in 4 for EACH of the babies that they will be homozygous for that genetic trait. It does NOT mean that if you get 4 babies, one of them HAS to be homozygous. In reality what it means that the only definite thing you can bank on is that YOUR results will be somewhere between ZERO homozygous and ALL homozygous, depending on what your luck quotient is.

Let's do a simple illustration. When you flip a coin, it has two possibilities when it comes to a landing (let's ignore those very rare instances when the coin might somehow wind up on it's edge): heads or tails. So you have two coins and you flip the first one and it comes up heads. Does that have any influence at all on what the next coin will be when you flip that one? Nope. Suppose you flip 99 coins and all of them come up heads. What are the odds that the 100th coin will also be heads? Exactly the same as every one that preceded it: 50/50.

That's why multi homozygous animals can command such high prices. With triple heterozygous parents, each baby only has a 1 in 64 chance of combining all three genes homozygously in that one animal. If you are working with animals that produce very small clutches, then you are looking at either working with a LOT of adults, breeding a smaller number of them for a longer time, or having incredibly good luck to get what you are shooting for in spite of the odds. I would suggest that you don't count on luck to pull you through.

So in a nutshell, producing 7 (or even much more, for that matter) babies from a breeding does not conclusively prove anything at all about the genetic makeup of the parents that produced them. Even breeding a full homozygous animal to a heterozygous mate is not a guarantee of a darned thing. It only increases the odds.
 
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Originally posted by Sybella
But...look on the bright side. All 7 of those babies are now positively het for albino, without a doubt!
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This above was a joke...I was trying to lighten the mood. :) C'mon, laugh a little.

(And, by the way, that only applies if the seller was truly honest.)
 
Have you ever hatched ALL hets from an Albino to a Het breeding?

Good point Webslave....and a lawyer would love to argue a case like this.....but have you EVER seen ALL hets come from an albino x het breeding?

I know it's not a lot...but I have produced at least 50 clutches from het to albino pairings and have never ONCE gotten less than 3 albinos in a clutch of 9 eggs and as many as 6.

I would say there is MORE than enough reasonable doubt that Kyle James is one of those low lifes that sells normals as hets. You can grasp at straws and say that his VICTIM was just "unlucky" all you want to.

I don''t buy it.

My .02

Tom Chambers
TC Reptile
 
So, when one sells the offspring, they will say they are "het for albino."
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Actually in your example they should NOT be sold as "het for albino." Instead they should be sold as "possible het for albino" and the buyer knows the risk of "possible."

Just a little clarification. I have no knowledge of this seller good or bad.
 
I'm not defending Kyle James here but:
A couple of years ago we bred a female het albino honduran to her son who was albino. We got 8 eggs and every one of them hatched out normal in appearance. That experience proved to me that genetics is not an exact science or a sure thing.

By the way, I am not defending Kyle James at all but I actually purchased a brazilian rainbow boa from him back in the mid 90's, it was a nice snake. What's funny is that Kyle James and I are almost family now. He my cousin's wife's brother! Small world.
 
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