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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.

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Show Us Your Herp Room!

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So, after seeing a couple threads recently that included pics of some pretty awful reptile rooms and tubs, I thought I'd go the opposite way. Let's do a thread where people can show off their herp/snake rooms. Let's see how clean you keep your rooms! Let's see if you're a scatterbrain or if you're OCD! Show the community that you give a crap about your animals!

Here's my "man cave" snake room. Wife won't let me hang my posters and such in the bedroom. I guess I can't blame her, at my age. Now I just need the daughter to move out, so I can have the bigger room! I will hopefully be picking up some cages this year. Obviously they won't fit in this room, so they'll probably go in the living room and house our favorites.

All three of the black racks are AP economy lines. The hatchling rack stacked on top is an RBI. The white melamine one and the one behind it on the floor are my poor attempts at homemade and serve as my hatchling rack during hatching season. Thinking of rolling it out of there now that it's empty and making it the QT rack. We shall see. :shrug01:

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For the record, that's how it almost always looks. I did move some boxes into the closet right before this pic, but that's where they stay anyway. :)
 
Let's see 'em! You've all had a few days to clean 'em up! LOL!
 
I need more space!!!!!!!!!

Which due you prefer, Black or White?
 

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Robert, your pics make me want to go buy a label maker. I'm getting tired of grease pencils. Thanks for the idea! And I much prefer black. No real worries about anything staining them, and the dust shows up pretty good so I know when I'm overdue to clean the racks (which I am right now)
 
Here is a dizzying video I took of my mantis shelves a couple years back. Like reptiles, some species require different types of cages. Often, cages are just sort of based off of making the best of what's on hand. Just thought I'd post it because it's "different". Enjoy!

 
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Robert, your pics make me want to go buy a label maker. I'm getting tired of grease pencils. Thanks for the idea! And I much prefer black. No real worries about anything staining them, and the dust shows up pretty good so I know when I'm overdue to clean the racks (which I am right now)
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Hey Richard, instead of a label maker, just get the 3M label addresses and print them out from computer to printer. Less clutter, less is more. Here's my pic's. I'm putting a flat screen in there so I can just watch tv in there and look or hold my darlings. My tubs have a hide, small bowl of sphagnum moss for humidity and either a pink or gray water bowl. Pink for the girlies and gray for the guys of course.
 

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Nice. I just use newspaper right now. Need to get more kraft paper one of these days. I don't use any hides or moss. When I see any of the snakes going into shed, I just start misting them once a day or so. I don't have any holes in any of my tubs, so the humidity stays up pretty good. The ones that do like to hide usually just get under the newspaper.

I wish I had room in mine for a couch and TV! lol Maybe once the step-daughter moves out I can get her bigger room.
 
Yeah, I'm single and have a 4 bed 3 bath on 12 acres. I have the snakes in a jack & jill room, so it has a bathroom between rooms. Very convenient!
 
Very nice. Ultimately, I'd like a tile room with a commercial kitchen sink (think the big 3 tub stainless ones with a sprayer) to clean tubs and sanitize and rinse. We shall see though. I big tub with a good sprayer would work I suppose.
 
Well mine isnt as high tech and organized like you guy's.
But at least I know where everything is and everyone is... just okay.

We put a lot of the animals in the closet, since were "technically" not supposed to have any reptiles or snakes in general (nothing in the lease says we cant have them, the landlord is just an idiot and thinks ALL snakes are poisonous and theyll get out and bite her and kill her etc etc).

The clothes underneath the black desk thing are my brothers.
He was (kinda still is), staying with us since he didnt have anywhere else to go and living with my mom can be one hell of a trial by fire.
She can get... very ignorant and rude, without knowing it.

Think about it this way, my mom is permanently a B on the rag 24/7.
Living with her can get kind of ridiculous

And no, thats not the permanent setup for the turtles land portion of their tank.
Soon as my husband gets better than he is now (almost bedridden by pain in his head), we're going down to sutherlands and getting some wood so he can build a small 'shelf' to put it on, so we can use those tanks for more storage or actual animals.

Anyway, here it is.
(and behind me, is the ugly scar in the room, the dirty laundry!)
And I just realized you cant see the 30 gallon 6 sided aquarium that houses the yellow bellied sliders.
Sorry guys, its in the middle there, full of water and turtles. =/
 

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Richard, that is an awesome man/snake cave! I will get pics of my herp room as soon as the remodeling is done. Gonna take quite a bit of work!
 
heres part of my reptile room the other parts is mostly rats a few other snakes then storage in the basement and closet for other quick supplys
those are all dragons in the big unit
then on the side the 3 tanks up top only one has a new arrival in it (just to be safe)
2nd is the incubator small crickets and mealworms
bottom is 8ft female burm
i put alot of the extra exo terra tanks in the basement along with 10 other tanks
 

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great room richard,, i dig all the posters,, now all u need is a stripper pole in the middle of room and some chicks to dance with snakes and have friends over and beer,, then u can make some quick sales or even down the road... good luck bud,,,,,,
 
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(my mom made this for my snake room lol....my husband used to spike his hair and has a love of hedgehogs....and of course the snake is me lol...she didn't do the sketch, she just put it on the glass)
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Very nice, Willow! I've been contemplating getting a humidifier for the snake room. Haven't decided yet. For now I just mist every now and then any of them that start to go into shed. With the tarantulas in there now though, maybe it'd be better.
 
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I have a humidifier and a fogger lol....along with 2 water bowls in every enclosure that I always over fill so a little bit spills into the cypress...and spray bottles of course

AZ sucks sometimes =)
 
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