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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.

Lulu's 2nd litter! Updated photos. :)

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So in litter #1, all of the babies exhibited some form of pattern aberrancy, which resulted in the appearance of the black coloration being smooshed to the sides so it looked like a wide white stripe was forming on their backs. Here are the video links for those babies (CUTE warning...I say it at least 8 times. lol My bad, I get all girlie around wee baby sand boas). ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjDf9bIzWc&list=UUNbW2lO30yelaDtA05k790Q&index=25
Video 1 - just back in town (these kids were born while I was in TX for Christmas - born 12/16/11. Behold my lovely cold)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62nPZdjN6xw&list=UUNbW2lO30yelaDtA05k790Q&index=24
Video 2 - looking more closely at their "striping"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtn7a4mZPxY&list=UUNbW2lO30yelaDtA05k790Q&index=21
Video 3 - recounting the litter size and patterns. This was the kiddo that I had my man put in the freezer after it died so I could inspect it later. Pulled him/her out to get the video. So sad, such a beauty!

Sadly, none of her first litter ever ate on their own and never pooped from the assist feeding I did. That leads me to believe digestively, they weren't done baking. :/ They were born over a month early and that's a huge time chunk for developing baby boas.

Fast forward to the 2nd litter (born 12/7/13). I weighed them all today and everyone was between 10-11 grams (just hit 2 months old as of yesterday).
All have been fantastic feeders and are super calm, laid back and sweet. :)

Bare with me on the photos..there's a lot. :)
These are the best photos and still some came out blurry. lol Nothing like getting setup then they bolt before you click the button. ;)

ID#NL1 - male
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ID#NL2 - female
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Face shot of NL2
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ID# NL3 - male (poss female...2nd guessing on this kid)
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More photos!

ID#NL4 - female
This kid shows the best example of the "aberrant/striped" pattern thing from Lulu's first litter.
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She dangles all relaxed in my hands just like her father. ;)
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Black belly scales
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ID#NL5 - female
A close 2nd on the patterning. Also has some nice black scales on the belly (I'll double check later, but I don't think any of the other babies have them). I was told this is not uncommon but I think it's cute. ;)
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and more photos.... ;D

ID#NL6 - male. I dub thee Noodle Jr. Acts just as relaxed and awesome as his father. ;) Love his bright and crisp coloration too. :)
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sumpthin stuck on yer face
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ID#NL7 - male. I love this kid's amount of black peppering on the sides. Sprinkles!
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https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/483399_10200748261616677_281682556_n.jpg

And last but not least, Lulu with her newest litter (one was hiding under her in this photo). She has only a smidge of this "wide stripe" look at the top of her neck and a nice chain portion further down.
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I have no idea if this is a passable trait. But I hope it is. :) Only more breedings will tell. For now, I have 7 fat, healthy little noodle angels and looking forward to seeing what comes up next. ;D
The next plan for this particular project, would be breeding the nicest looking son back to Lulu and breeding sibs together to see what's up.

A side note: The father "Noodle" has bred another anery female too. NONE of her babies came out with this weird pattern. So I'm curious if Lulu is solely responsible for it, or if on some weird chance, she and Noodle are carrying a recessive trait...I won't call it that or a morph or anything, until I'm sure period that this is even a passable trait.
For now, it's just a fun project and I've got a small load of funkalicious sweetie pies to play with. ;D

Kindest regards,

Amanda Rose
 
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