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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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So my girl was at the shop getting some frozen mice for or about to be 1 year old tegu and the guy asked why we feed frozen, She replied what i have told her, to keep feeding aggression down and so he dont get mean.

The guy at the shop said that sooner or later he will get mean no matter what. I dont think its true what do you guys think. i want him to eventually free roam the house. Heres his pics.







Picked him up on craigslist for a good price, Hes a good eater also. he eats ground turkey, chicked liver and gisards chopped, thawed mice one every 2 2 weeks and some grapes and difrent berries from time to time,

these pics where from about 2 months ago he has since grown about 4 to 5 inches. growing fast. Im also thinking of cutting back his feeding to every other day. What do you guys think..
 
I have seen adult males that will let you hold them in your arms and walk a show with them and I have seen them want to tear your face off. Its all in the way they are kept and how much time you spend with them in my opinion.
 
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What do you guys think..
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He is a great looking lizard!!!!
What do I think? Never put him in a position to do real irrecoverable harm when he gets large enough to do harm. Even the nicest critter can have a bad day, or come upon a situation it doesn't understand and feels threatened by.
So don't let (for example) a pet 1 lb. snappy chihuahua up near him, or a 1 year old child get near him without supervision who might poke your tegu in the eye not knowing what he is doing. Both the critter AND the person could get hurt under those circumstances.
 
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Is he an Argentine or Colombian?

Feeding frozen/thawed is safer for him.

If you spend plenty of time with him, he should stay calm and dog like. If you don't spend time with him, he may become aggressive.
 
No worries any more guys this guy is now huge and pretty tame, he loves to come out and roam around. He does not like to go outside. He gets in a bad mood when hes outside. so the outdoors is a nono for him. lol. Heres a picture of him.

 
One of the most fierce lizards I ever encountered was a tegu once. Scaly pit-bull! lol. Years ago I read an article from a zoo keeper that was in charge of Komodo Dragon at zoo. It had always been inside and was puppy dog tame. They made an outdoor enclosure and as soon as he went in the thing it charged him and he leaped out of the pit. Winter time he was put back inside and was calm again. I believe his theory had to do with the Sun. Nice looking tegu you have.
 
he looks great!
I've also heard theories about the sun bringing out the 'inner monster' in some lizards.
 
AbsoluteApril said:
he looks great!
I've also heard theories about the sun bringing out the 'inner monster' in some lizards.
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JColt said:
One of the most fierce lizards I ever encountered was a tegu once. Scaly pit-bull! lol. Years ago I read an article from a zoo keeper that was in charge of Komodo Dragon at zoo. It had always been inside and was puppy dog tame. They made an outdoor enclosure and as soon as he went in the thing it charged him and he leaped out of the pit. Winter time he was put back inside and was calm again. I believe his theory had to do with the Sun. Nice looking tegu you have.
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I read that if you raise them outside from a baby, then they don't react adversely to sunlight

There was an EXPERIMENT done (again, EXPERIMENT, so could be missing something, ) where two baby Savannah monitors were raised with the same humidity, same temperatures, same diet, same enclosure, only difference: one outside, one inside. They were handled equally (up to 30 min a day, and at least 10,). They both became very tame, and, for the experiment, the indoor raised one went outside, and became a monster, at which point they brought him back inside, and he became a puppy dog again. The outdoor raised one showed no change except getting a little more energetic after going back outside.


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He is beautiful! I absolutely love how prehistoric these guys look [emoji173]️


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Im not totally sure about that hole sun thing because he would be fine as long as i was holding him. he would only turn evil when i put him down.
 
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