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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.

Pip, The Dwarf Colombian

Very Cool, what a cute lil guy, I would love to see another up to date size comparison shot with the sibling in the photo, until I saw the first one with Pip and his siter I could not really even begin to picture just how small he was. Thanks for all the updates.
 
Although he hasn't picked up any length since the June measurements, Pip has continued to bulk up. He is now tipping the scales at 675 grams.

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Thanks,
 
Awesome looking little bugger i say!!! good luck with your project i'll be sure to be watching it develop.( purely a self serving interest) lol I WANT ONE !!
 
have you forgotten the other step in proving a gene like this??

have you rebred pip's parents??


bc
 
What a coincidence

What a coincidence,
My brother in law just moved up here from fla last winter,He brought with him a pair of red tails,I let him keep them in my dining room untill he moved(was a real pain in the but)and the female was pregnant, They moved nextdoor but they left the snakes for a week or so untill they got settled
One sunday i think it was mothersday i was across town visiting my relatives
and my wife got a call from her brother telling us the female had her babies and they were all over my house....lol(we were still catching babies a month later)
Anyway we caught a really small one a few weeks later and i thought it was going to die because it was half the size as the other 30+ babies we found
But we went ahead and fed it and to this day it out eats any of its other siblings but does not grow very much at all!
I dont know if its a male or female i will ask tomorrow if i can catch up with him, I will snap a couple pics asap and post them also
You know its funny because the only thing i dont like about his snakes are they are so darn big! I dont like snakes bigger than me...lol
It would be nice to have a dwarf red tail
 
The first pic is of him and the smallest sibling he has
I estimate Tiny is 15 inches max and his sib. is 22 inches
The second pic is just tiny by himself
 
I am having the same thing with one of my Boas, the damn snake just won't grow! I feed two times a week, but not much difference in size. I have another Boa that's the same age, same feeding plan, same sized cage, and I have raised since a baby-and it's twice as big. I bought them both within 2 weeks of eachother also. I'll have to weigh the tiny one though........
 
Pip is doing very well. I'm just starting my wintertime light cycling in preparation for breeding season. He just shed today and he looks great. My fingers are crossed for a successful breeding with him.

Thanks for asking.
 
Pip just shed and is doing wonderfully. I'll try and post some pics with his sister in the next day or two.

Thanks for asking.
 
Pip is doing great.
He has been actively breeding for the past two months.
I'll get some updated pictures up soon.

Thanks,
 
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