• Posted 12/19/2024.
    =====================

    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.

    =====================
    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.
    **************************************************
    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.

Melanistic Leopard Gecko...?

S

Sand&SunReptile

New member
Joined
Nov 23, 2003
Messages
1,410
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Location
Western Mass
I was wondering if there is a proven melanistic trait for in Leopard Geckos?
I was at the Hamburg, PA show yesterday, and there was an adult Lep, that had an incredible amount of black. It was beautiful, and I should've inquired. It was a beautiful geck, and had a lot of black.
I was just wondering if anybody happened to know if melanism has been proven yet...?
 
Proven for what? My understanding is it is just like hypomelanistic leopard geckos (hypos..) that it is line bred. Kelli has a melanistic group I know, and Monte had a few dark ones. Maybe can share some experience.
 
To my knowledge, there has not been a proven melanistic trait discovered in leopard geckos. Boy do I wish there was, can you imagina a solid jet black leo? That would be the ultimate.

I have a small group of dark ones, the corect term for them would be hypermelanistic I guess. I got one of my females from Monte.

Here she is, my girl, her name is Mel-
mel101104.jpg


And here is another female of mine, her name is Baby-
baby1011.jpg


I have one other dark female, I need to take a picture of her though.

Anyway, I am wanting to do some selective breeding to try and increase the black even more in them. They are my favorites of all my leos.
 
Dang i have a male you might could use.

This guy is not as Dark I don't think as those girls but he is nice and dark. Just a thought. I am sure you probably have darker males than this guy.


9980180-M.jpg
 
hypermelanistic leo

Some guy has a dark one he is breeding to another dark one. He said it is called a "midnight" phase. I have heard of them being called hypermelanistic as well. Never saw either in person or anything, just pictures so I don't know if they are different or the same thing. There is a discussion about it on ks from a few days ago in the leo forum. It was called "All black leos wtf??" or something close to that.

You can also see a hypermelanistic at
http://www.leopard-gecko.net/morphs/hyper_melanistic.html

here is a link to that post on ks, it has some pics of his midnight blizzard as well.
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=597486,598227
 
Kelii do you remember this?

This isn't my pic, but hopefully Kristin Armitage will update us. Cause we were all wondering if this leo would lighten up?
 

Attachments

  • armitage black blizzard.jpg
    armitage black blizzard.jpg
    12.9 KB · Views: 716
the leo at leopard-gecko.net is a dark patternless... if i remember correctly kelli has hatched out a few of these whom end up lightening up
 
the second leo is a blizzard coined a midnight blizzard by garrick de meyer. he has been working for a few years on this but as far as i know they do not hold the black, they do lighten up some and do not breed true , as far as i can remember
 
The one I saw was more like Kelli's, named Baby. It had the same kind of black patterning that Baby's head had except it had that kind of patterning over it's entire body.
 
keeping color

From what I understand, that guy on ks's is adut size and has kept her color all her life. She was old enough to breed last year but not fat enough so he said he might give it a shot this year.
 
This is mine...she is about 5 years now, bought her at a petshop about 4 years ago. I was thinking about breeding her, but I really don't have anything to go with her, so I'm not sure. She is more of a family pet anyway.

NL_01.jpg


The pic is a bit darker than what she really is, but that's still a pretty close picture. The yellow on her is a very grungy color.
 
Yeah that makes me wonder. What morph would be a good choice to pair with a melanistic leo?
 
Probably another dark normal would be obvious. I think a tangerine would be cool, if you have one that is not hypo, which seems rare these days. A nice dark leo and a bright orange...maybe even red background. That would be cool.
 
I think im seeing a lot of normal fat females being called hyper now. Just that we, well I know I, are/am not used to seeing them as often as high yellows and tangs.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top