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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.

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Just sharing a pic of one of my balls.
 

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Very nice

looking snake you have there.Is it male or female and how big is he/she?I have lots of ball pythons I have went nuts with them..lol.My collection od snakes is around 80 and I think 50 of them are ball pythons..lol
 
Thank you. She is a het from Bob Clark, 03 so she has some growing to do. Both male and female are striking though, I feel very fortunate as they have yellows and oranges around the sides and are very pretty.
You have A LOT of snakes!! I only have if I am counting right about 25. Nothing compared to your collection, though I am working on it :) and I must admit it is fun working on it. Although I am really partial to my rubber boas I really really like the ball python. They are just neat.
 
I have to say the addiction is something else..lol..But I love it.I keep saying I would run out of space but I started building my own cages and racks and that just made things worse.But for now I think I am done buying till I hopefully produce some nice snakes.But I have said that many times..lol..

So what is she is het for?
 
Albino.
I need to make racks, I like working with wood, just not that great at it, my cages turn out all right, but can not seem to get a rack, so I have sweater boxes and tanks everywhere until I can figure it out, lol.
I have said many times that I am not buying any more, then I decided my collection needed sand boas, so I got sand boas, then it was geckos, just to see what the fascination is, now I know :)
I have a male fwc that needs a girlfriend and a male ringer that needs a girlfriend, it seems to never stop. My fe dum needs a guy.
I need to not go to shows and not look at the ads, haha, not likely. Eighty snakes though, wow, don't know if I could handle that many. You must have an awesome collection.
 
Rubber Boas are very cool indeed.
I was considering one.
How are rubber boas temperments usually?
By the way, what kind of hets are they? I just skimmed this one, and it was probably listed somewhere.
 
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