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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.

should have used birth control...lol!

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okay first of all lemme just go ahead and admit this was my fault (given that im right and she was impregnated).

when i first got an albino of mine, i housed it with a male but they were so young i figured it was harmless. this female now weighs about 20 grams (way too small to breed by any standards) and im pretty sure she has two little tiny eggs sitting in her belly (imagine my surprise when i discovered them last night!!!)

my question is...

do leopard geckos lay slugs just because its breeding season?
or
can a 18 gram juvenille female get pregnant and actually have fertile eggs?

i'm pretty confused about all this... please help.
hopefully if she does lay eggs it wont take too much of a toll on her...
thanks in advance for any help or advice you may have.
 
No, Chad...

...you shouldn't have used birth-control. You should have kept them separately, just like I advised you to do. :slamit:
 
Hey when i was younger I had a lone female as a pet, and she would always lay a few eggs. i dont know if they store sperm or not , but the eggs she laid where always infertile
 
It is doubtful she is ovulated that young or is currently gravid. I will say that it is possible though. At only 20 grams, if she did in fact become gravid being that small it is likely that she would end up losing weight extremely fast and would die within a short period of time, she would lay herself to death! Please do not put them in together until she is at least 50-60 grams.
 
well if she is in fact gravid i wont let her die. at that size im sure she wont lay more than a few eggs. did i mention that shes only about 4 months old. she really should not have gotten pregnant at that age or that weight. everything ive ever read or heard about geckos states that a female gecko that young/small is not sexually mature. so with that in mind why would i have kept her seperate from a male ( a gentle little patternless) thats only a month older than her (males arent supposed to be sexually mature until 6 months old). but anyways i wont make that mistake a second time. i keep all my males seperate now no matter what age.

p.s. marcia, that male i got from you now weighs 50 grams. hes looking good.
 
When you look a the bottom of a leo sometimes you can see some fat deposits inside that look like eggs, maby that is the case....but if she does lay I would cool her after her first feeding to stop her from laying anymore. I have a bunch of females that are around 60-80 grams and they lose weight not matter what you do. If she lays twice I would consider her dead....
 
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