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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.

Lets liven up this forum, there has to be more Pit fanciers out there

What is important to you in any Pituophis?

  • I only will buy locale specific normal animals!

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • I enjoy locales but I keep what looks good to me whatever they are!

    Votes: 9 81.8%

  • I am only interested in morphs both pattern and color.

    Votes: 1 9.1%
  • Total voters
    11
  • Poll closed .
John Cherry

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Hey guys/girls John Cherry Here from Cherryville Farms, we just started sponsering this forum and would love to see some more interaction in here.

I started a poll in here also! Maybe we can all start there.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms
 
Way to go John!

Pits are my faves. Never saw one I didn't like. From puppy dog tame to down right mean they're all perfect in my eyes. Currently keeping
1.2 Patternless Pines
1.2 Sonoran Gophers
1.1 Deppei Deppei
1.1 Deppei Jani
my wish list consists of
EVERY OTHER PIT NOT LISTED ABOVE LOL
Let's hope this forum gets some interest. Take care Tom Stevens
 
nothing like a pit

John,
I agree with Tom, I like all pits. Unfortunately space is an issue so I've decided to keep only bullsnakes. Ron
 
John, nice to see you here. This is a great forum in my limited time here. I'm an owner of just one Kankakee bullsnake and she's such a fun pet so far.
 
I currently have a hatchling pair of black pines. I have kept bulls in the past. I am looking forward to branching out to other species as money allows.
 
I agree

I guess if you have to have an additction, there are a lot worse ones than pituophis. I was in the snake house today, cleaning some cages, doing some records work etc. And I started looking at the amount of space we have devoted to the pit. group and each year it seems to expand and the others remain fairly constant. They are just awesome animals.

We have started down a new road in our collection with finding and then putting together color morphs that are locale specific. It has been a chore, but man I am excited about the project.

Currently we have in the collection a bull snake that is an albino, that was caught by some folks that own a golf course three years ago. They kept him and now as an adult around 6 1/2' he is awesome. I paid them a bit of money and also had a friend secure me 7 females and 2 males form the same area. Now we have a good breeding group of locale specific animals from Lubbock, Texas. Of course they are normals, but that will start the het project and then albinos in a few years.

The other bull we have now secure is a line of axthanic bulls from the Miami County Kansas area. They are breeding true and are really awesome black and white aniamls as adults.

Several other gophers, two other bulls and one pine add to the locale morph list, but it is going to be fun in the next few years to work with them. We still plan on keeping our other lines, but are going to concentrate on this new project. LOL. My wife says it is jsut an excuse to have more pits, come to think about it. She may be right.

John Cherry
:hot: Cherryville Farms
 
We currently have:
1.1 Yellow Phase Bulls(Jason Nelson)
1.1 Double Het Albino/Whiteside Bulls(Jason Nelson)
1.0 Albino Whiteside Bull(Jason Nelson)
1.0 Ghost Bull
0.1 Bell Whiteside Bull(The ghost and Bell are supposed to be het for snow, I'll let you know in a year, lol)
0.1 West Texas Locale Red Bull(Rick Krumrine)
1.1 100% Het Pied Black Pines(Rick Krumrine)
 
Hey there,

I've had Northern Pines in the past. Currently I have 1.1 Albino Southern Pines that I picked up from Ron in '03 (thanks again...they are doing great). I plan on adding two pair of deppei deppei, a pair of Kingsville red bulls, a pair of ghost bulls, in the next year or two. This year, I'm focusing on Nic boas

Amie
 
I got my first and only (so far) bullsnake as a tag along with a group of emorys that I received three months ago. She's an '04 albino het WS and is growing fast! I had always had an interest in bullsnakes, but until recently, I did not know that I could legally keep any here in WI. Apparently having obvious color morphs is acceptable.

So far, she has been the only reptile capable of sending the dog scrambling out of the snake room and up the stairs. The first two days I had her she was a little hissy on and off, but since then she hasn't even flinched when I open her drawer. I'm definitely hooked, and will be looking for a snow male toward the end of the season.
 
I have always been interested in bull snakes since growing up in the country in Nebraska. I have started looking for some red bulls and at my first show (Tinley) I was surprised I couldn't find any. Hope to find some this weekend at the Midwest show in Bloomington Minnesota. Great snakes and I am starting to get addicted and don't even have any yet.
Mark Westberg
 
I've been working on my pits. I now have 1.0 cape gopher, 0.1 Baja gopher and 1.1 Sonoran gophers. My first was the cape. From the moment I laid eyes on that snake, I knew I was going to buy him. Here's a couple of pics of him.

This picture makes it looks as if there are two snakes.
CapeGopher.jpg


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He's around 4' give or take a few inches. I've never measured him. I'm planning on breeding him w/the Baja next year. She is roughly the same size as he is.
 
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