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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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What are you favorite feeders?

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I always used crickets, mealworms, superworms and a few times a year wax worms.

With so much talk about silkworms being so much better, I wondered who preferred what feeders?

Id like to give silks a try but it seems that the chow has a nasty smell while being cooked and Im not sure if my family would appreciate me stinking up the house......
 
Silks..

I've been using silkworms for a while now. The good side to them is that they have no smell (except for their food), they stay in one place when you place them in the cage, I've heard that they have more protein than a cricket, they can be dusted and they don't make any noise. The bad side is that they eat non-stop so they require constant feeding, they grow at a very fast rate so if you get a large quantity you end up with some that are too large to feed to anything, well anything that I raise, also you can't gutload them because they only eat one thing. At one time I wanted to change over to feeding them primarily but now I'm having second thoughts. I like feeding them along with crickets though and will probably continue doing so.

Jerm
 
Howdy,

I don't mind the smell of silk food much at all. It reminds me of green tea. It is a potent smell but not a particularly "bad" smell...

My chameleons will eat silks and supers much more often than crickets and roaches these days. Whenever I'm rehabbing someone else's chameleon that is still eating, they seem to really love roaches. It's probably the change of diet from crickets to anything else. Roaches: Lobster and Orange Spotted. No more hissers - just didn't see the point of having them too... Occasional waxworms, hornworms. Skipped mealworms with supers in their place.
 
The smell really isn't too bad, if you don't like it you can buy the food already made or grow a mulberry tree also. I use the vent above my stove and I barely even smell it.

Jerm
 
I may give it a try, my 6 year old has allergies and asthma, so we can't even use scented soaps and cleaners. I had heard that it was a harsh buring leaves smell when being cooked.

The precooked would actually make it not worth the while for me. I go through 10,000 meales in 6 weeks for $43 (pretty cheap).
 
I didn't notice a burning leaf smell, it kind of has its own smell. I can't really describe it. It did remind me a little of green tea. You could probably grow a mulberry tree in North Carolina. I thought about growing one here in FL in a container so I could take it when I move. My dad lives on a farm in KS and has mulberry trees everywhere so I'm going to have him ship me fresh leaves as soon as they have some.

Jerm
 
dragonflyreptiles said:
The precooked would actually make it not worth the while for me. I go through 10,000 meales in 6 weeks for $43 (pretty cheap).
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However, in both food and nutrition wise, one large silkworm would equal up to maybe... 25 mealworms or so.

My chameleons are all fed silkworms, and receive crickets for one week, every two weeks in addition to the silkworms. The very odd butterworm, and some get a rare pinky or two.
 
Will, I have all geckos right now so the silks would have to be fed out at a small size. Thats one reason I am thinking of getting a new trio of veileds so they could eat the larger worms. I sold all of mine off last fall :(

I use crickets, mealies, supers and pinks now and wax worms a couple of times a year.
 
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