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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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I have a small question in reguards to BP's and may pertain to other snakes cause I have observed this behavior in more than a ball python. In just about every snake I have owned weather it is a BP, garter, Dekay's, Ribbon etc. I have noticed that on occasions after picking them up they would swing their head around and rub their face on my hand. Now generally I would have thought it was close to shed and this was the reason for it. But however it has happened several times sometimes even after shed. They rub so hard that their mouths sort of contort a bit. Almost like they may be itching their face.

I keep an extremely clean enclosure and none of my snakes are allowed to free roam outside. I will not take any animal I own outside without proper defense against some common parasites. I only say this because I thought it might be a parasite thing myself when I noticed the behavior but. There is just no way any snake I own can get one.

I was just curious also it is always the side of the face. Not sure if it is a behavior that is common before and after a shed. I know before it would be normal but after not sure why they would need to do it.

Thanks
 
I really wouldn't know why your snakes do as you say. Mine don't seem to do that.

On the parasite deal, don't get too bravo about it. Just about when you think it is impossible for your snakes to get something is about when it happens. Could be as easy as a food item carrying it. Make sure you don't get to over confident and keep up on monitoring for any signs. Alot of people take their snakes outside and don't have problems with getting anything. Then others who have left their snakes indoors and in what they thought was a pretty sound environment have gotten hit hard.
 
Yeah I always monitor for signs of illness. I take her out and check her over for problems that may arise. Most of what I check for is mouth rot and belly blisters. But I am pretty sure the blisters won't be much of an issue cause I keep a pretty dry substrate (not really substrate but cage carpet) I like the carpet cause it makes it really easy for me to keep humidity at a constant percent. I noticed other substrate would make it fluctuate a little because of them holding moisture at sometime and so forth.

thanks for the tips now Im kind of worried again lol.
 
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