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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.

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I saw one of these snakes on display at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida. It looked really neat. I read up on them and saw that they are purely aquatic which was also a new one on me. I've seen some videos of people feeding them on Youtube but I haven't had any luck finding where I could possibly purchase one. Anyone know of anywhere in the US that sells them?
 
Definitely an unusual and very cool species. Sure to get anyone's attention and way cooler than just having a "fish tank" in your living room. I have occasionally seen them for sale on kingsnake.com and also on here. I'm not aware of anyone who has had much success getting them to breed so you're going to get WC specimens most likely. You might try Googling them, but the few places I found that had them advertised were out of stock.

Dan
 
they come in season around Aug and sept. keep looking looking in the forums you should be able to find one. The coolest thing about them is the way they eat. They strick were they think the animal is going to go and not were it is. Awesome awesome snakes
 
I worked at an AZA accredited zoo for about 5 years and during that time we produced about 20-ish offspring from our original 2.3 group. Really didn't do anything special to get them to breed, but it sure is neat working with them. If you do end up with some, invest in an undergravel filter. It'll reduce your cleaning time by a good bit.
 
just as iiicroweiii said, they are available seasonally only, although i have been hearing more and more about captive breeding them, apparently its not that hard.
 
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