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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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off topic ..but i just had to share..

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sorry for the off topic post, lol but i just fely like sharing this

i have been keeping fish for the past 9 years, mostly cichlids, but i recently started getting back into the smaller freshwater fish (platties, mollys, swordtails...etc)

anyway, on of my favorite types of mollys, a silver lyertail, which i have had for 7 months now gave birth to 25 little frys tonight, and i couldnt be more happier, lol

heres the mom after giving birth
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and 2 pics of the same fry, this was was the only one o could get a macro of, lol
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cute little buggers eh' ? lol
 
mollies are small?...I don't know but I wouldn't consider a 6" fish small...lol

Cute baby though :)
 
small compared what i usually keep ;), plus the short finned mollies that i keep only grow to about 4 inches in captivity, the sailfin mollies are the ones that get big
 
hehehe :) Quite large compared to my little guppy/endlers crosses, cherry barb, and killifishes...lol Oh...and my little saltwater diadema pseudochromis. lol

Are you keeping them brackish or fresh?
 
good deal :) bugs the crap out of me that basically all petstores sell brackish animals as freshwater...mollies and fiddler crabs specifically...
 
StinaUIUC said:
good deal :) bugs the crap out of me that basically all petstores sell brackish animals as freshwater...mollies and fiddler crabs specifically...
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i cannot stand that either

i went to a pet store here a few months back, and they were trying to lecture me on how you are never supposed to put salt in molly tanks, and that it could kill swordtails, i just had to laugh and leave, good thing my father knows lots of people in the fish bussiness, lol
 
Aw, makes me miss the mollies I used to have. At one point I had literally hundreds of them--kept in 100% saltwater with my clowns and banggai cardinals. I wish I hadn't stopped breeding them. It's become very difficult to find good specimens around here.
Congratulations Dan!
 
I manage a fish room in a pet store and own 3 of my own salt tanks for my own leisure. :) I don't have nearly the knowledge i do on geckos, but i try my hardest to make that room shine.

And who DOESN'T know that most livebearers like a little salty taste to their water? ;) I love it when i see Mollys in salt tanks, just gorgeous.

I do fancy my salt tanks something special though. I am keeping Harlequin shrimp, a pair. Neat little shrimp!
 
Harlequin shrimp are so nifty!

I love my little reef tank (10 gallon). I have a bunch of different corals, my little pseudo, a cleaner shrimp, a porcelain anemone crab, a fighting conch, and a bunch of snails/hermits. It's tough to beat the beauty of a nice reef tank!...although I do love my fresh and brackish tanks too...lol
 
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