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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.

Snake with neuropathy- I really need help!!!!

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Ok, here's the story. I just got this Kenyan sandboa shipped to me UPS overnight. He was nice and warm when we got him, and well packed and insulated. But we knew something was wrong when we took him out of the bag. He has almost no muscle tone, can barely hold his head up, and has trouble moving himself forward. His righting reflex is weak. We have 20 other sandboas and I've never seen anything like this. We called the vet and got him there in under two hours. After looking at him, the vet said there was definately a neurological problem. He pointed out lumps on his body that were formed by his GI tract being partially paralyzed. The only symptom the snake really has is this flaccid paralysis, no convulsions, no stargazing that I've seen, no mouth rot, no respiratory infection. He was sent to me with some retained shed. The vet says he thinks it's either IBD, paramyxo virus, bacterial encephalitis, or poisoning. The seller says the snake was just fine before he was shipped, and says its either shipping stress or some chemical that was on the truck with him.
Have any of you guys ever seen a sand boa with these symptoms? Or any snake? Is there a blood test I should have the vet run? The seller did offer a refund if I want to ship him back if he's not better soon. I'm a little worried about the ramifications of some of these diseases on the seller's collection, but right now I have no proof of what the snake is sick from. I almost wish he'd let me euthanize the snake and still give me a refund. This is just a mess, at any rate, I'd appreciate any advice.

Erin and Jason Benner
 
It really sounds like IBD to me...quarantine this snake in another building if you can and use completely different instruments for feeding and so on. Any boid with neurological problems that you are unsure of the cause of need to be quarantined immediately.

My advice is :treat it like it has IBD until you know for a fact that it doesn't, and if other typical side effects of IBD show up(i.e. mouthrot, respiratory problems, body contortion, star gazing), I would euthanize the snake and ask for a refund. If you explain the situation to the seller and that that you can't take the risk of something like that in your or anyone else's collection, you are fully entitled to a refund, and last but not least, keep in contact with the breeder for updates on his own collection.
 
Oh yeah... update...

I sent him back, I got a refund, he died, the seller didn't necropsy, cause of death unknown. The other snakes didn't catch it. Since them I've had another mysterious death of a sand boa with neurological symptoms (a snake which I didn't own at the time of the other snake) but I couldn't afford the 200$ they wanted to test for pathogens. SO whether or not sand boas can get it is still up in the air to me, but we all learned an important lesson about quarantining.

Erin B.
 
I almost learned the hard way with quarintining.
I had some balls shipped to me, and did a quick once over on them, and plopped them in the tank.
They started showing horrible signs, and one the 1st night, other was euthanized.
I received a full refund, plus vet bills from the seller, which makes me wonder if it was an honest mistake, or if the seller knew full well the snakes conditions.
Luckily for me, the established collection didnt catch anything from them.
That taught me though, and everything is quarintined now.
 
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