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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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Some New Additions

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I'm Hooked. I love Drymarchon!! I hope this forum stays!!
I really wish I had gotten into these guys years ago!!

Anyways here is a few pics of my newest additions.

CB 2013 Female Yellow Tail Cribo






1.2 Eastern Indigo's

First set of pic's is my 2008 female I purchased last September.






Here is my new pair I got last Sunday. 2006 Female - 2007 Male
Both where in shed when I got them. Female shedded today. Wow she is a beauty!! I did notice that her eye caps never came off with the shed so I'm going to soak a cotton ball and help her remove them. Male still hasn't shed yet but he's still a stud.

Female






Male in shed





My new pair of EI's are temporary housed in 4'x2'x1' pvcx cages until I can get something bigger made. I did get a custom made 8'x2'x2' pvcx cage for my 2008 female but I noticed she doesn't really use the height So I'm thinking I'm going to order a few 8'x2'x1'. That way I got room for more Dry cages lol. Thanks for looking!

 
I love the iridescent sheen of your indigos, they're gorgeous! Your cribo has the cutest face too and awesome color, can't wait to see what she looks like as an adult! :D

I like your sleek cages too, very nice. Similar to you, I changed my two foot high ones to a single foot after noticing that my gophers weren't utilizing it, but I got tired of banging their hides/branches on the ceiling and cleaning the far wall blind, so I decided on a comfortable fifteen inches of height instead and stacked them up by fours. I'm apparently the goldilocks of cages...
Anyways, I hope you find yourself the perfect height! And thank you for that lovely dose of drymarchon, they're all wonderful and I know what I want for Christmas now~ LOL ;)
 
Pretty sweet set up!! I can't wait to get my black tail this summer.


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Thanks for the comments and caging info. I have decided to go with 16'' in height for my new pvcx cages.

Be sure to post some pics of your new BT when you get him. I'm also wanting to add a few blacktails to my collection in the future. They are sweet looking!!

Here is a couple good updated pics of my indigos.

2007 male



2006 female



2008 female

 
I'm super happy I got myself another Eastern Indigo last month!!

A gorgeous 2009 Male that I purchased from the awesome Chris Stinson
I've had him for a few weeks and just love him. He really enjoys his day old chicks will have to make a quick video some time. Thanks for looking.








 
Hi Daniel,

I love my couperi, too. My '12 girl really only likes birds - she used to eat only baby quail, finally grew enough to graduate to chicks. I smuggle in a mouse when I can, and stuff 1/4 vitamin pill (human) in the chicks mouth every now and then, to supplement calcium, because baby birds are lacking.

I hope you've visited the "Drymarchon pics" thread....

Chris
 
Hey Chris thanks for the reply.

My guys are eating small rats but I throw in a baby chick here and there for treats as they love them so much. I will have to check out that Dry thread thanks!!


Couple quick pics.

I got my wife a female Texas Indigo for her birthday. I can tell she already loves this girl. I caught her talking to the indigo lol. They are super cute when there so small. Picked up this beauty from Jim at J&J Reptiles





 
Are there really Indigo owners that DON'T talk to their snakes? You would have caught me, begging all mine to eat, today....they all seem to have switched to a minimalist winter diet, a few weeks ago. The temps in their cages haven't changed, nor has the lighting schedule, and they've all shed in the last week....but ate just a little afterwards, not the usual pig-out.

Oh well, they're all healthy, I just want them to grow quickly, while they're young.
 
bmwdirtracer said:
Are there really Indigo owners that DON'T talk to their snakes? You would have caught me, begging all mine to eat, today....they all seem to have switched to a minimalist winter diet, a few weeks ago. The temps in their cages haven't changed, nor has the lighting schedule, and they've all shed in the last week....but ate just a little afterwards, not the usual pig-out.

Oh well, they're all healthy, I just want them to grow quickly, while they're young.
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I was doing the same thing two nights ago, my 4 year old male was being a dork not wanting to eat, then he started to eat, and then he changed his mind again and left me a half soaked rat corpse. Think I'm just gonna let him sleep a while as he appears to be winding down for winter like yours.
 
All my 4 were refusing food again, four days ago....then I cut the legs off of two chicks. That did it! Every snake voraciously attacked the leg, and then the regular items offered next. The blood did it....and tomorrow will be feeding time again, I'll see how that goes.

I was told by the lady I'm buying a 4-year female from, that her girl eats most anything -- including salmon. So I bought a fresh salmon filet a few weeks ago, sliced it into strips, and my youngest boy attacked it with vigor. The other 3 snakes investigated the offering, but didn't try it. I will offer it again, in future, though.
 
Yeah, indigos are sort of funny about eating. Either they chow down like they are starving, or ignore the food entirely. I think it has something to do with being a non-constrictor that eats a lot of prey alive in the wild. They have to get it down quickly before it can bite back.
 
Chick legs worked again today, to begin feeding time. They all ate reasonably well, not quite as much as I'd like, but enough that I won't worry....
 
I believe a good percentage of the wild diet are snakes....... I would bet the snake of choice would be ratsnakes..... In fact I've seen indigos purse ratsnakes in open areas and once in a tree!!!...... Anyhow I think it's uncomfortable for indigos to stretch their jaws too far apart...... I never feed a food item that causes too much expansion....... Now for my personal thoughts....... Feeding is one of a snakes most vulnerable times..... The faster they get that item down the sooner they get back to safety..... Do they have a bio-timer?...... That's goes off and has them make a choice between calories and safety????...... I don't know, but when one gets to be 66 years old...... Humans tend to think about things way too much..... Ever see an indigo track a sitting frog , catch it and swallow it?........ Kids it takes only a FEWminutes....... It's memories like that ....... Just brings a grin to my face and a an appreciation of how fortunate I was to have been there at that time and place........:thumbsup:
 
They'll eat appropriate sized box turtles!!!!....... And I reckon other species also......question..... Has anyone found that baby gopher tortoises are a food item????...... With all the work being done on the gopher tortoise/ indigo relationships.... That may have been documented.....how about tortoise eggs.....I believe the tortoise lays the eggs on the "APRON" of the tunnel??..... I think I read that somewhere....
An old man
Bob
 
Hi Bob! Did you get my PM?

Interesting thoughts about the "danger timer". My younger snakes have often grabbed an animal sideways, in their feeding frenzy moments, and then just started "chewing", instead of looking for the head, like almost every other species I've owned. The oldest girl "gets it", of course: she'll initially bite the (F/T) animal almost anywhere she likes the smell - but then she immediately starts a "lopsided" chewing action, which works the animal around in her jaws until she's got a favorable angle of attack. She uses her body to hold the animal while she does that.

My other (younger) couperi allow me to help them: I'll regrab the prey animal with long tweezers, to help pull it straight, when necessary. My 5 foot + boy just doesn't care though: he'll grab a 1 week quail sideways, and start eating. I've seen it take 15 minutes, with me sometimes cutting wings off, etc, during the process....he doesn't care. When he's grabbed the animal wrong like this, he'll just keep chewing until he squeezes the guts out, and makes it smaller.

(Yes, I'm fully aware that Indigo jaws don't do the quadrate expansion of other snakes, and I seriously try to avoid feeding them large prey.....but everything becomes much larger when you eat it sideways!)

Bob, have you ever had an issue with cyclosporidia? I was warned to never feed my couperi any reptiles, amphibians, or any bird older than 1 day. I looked up cyclosporidia, and decided that birds could not infect snakes, because the organisms are different species from warm to cold blooded animals.

My warning came from a VERY well known couperi breeder, but in my further study, I saw that the disease is almost completely exclusive to captive populations, where snakes might contract the organism by eating an infected animal or feces.

I'd love to hear from your experience.

Chris
 
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