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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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what else do you feed you crested gecko diet to?

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several months back I realized I had poured an extra dish of Pangea CGD so I decided to see if my golden gecko would eat it. He polished it off better than my cresteds did so now its a regular part of his diet as well.

I usually mix up a weeks supply in a squeeze bottle but I must have made a bit too much last week and tonight I had some left over so I decided to give a little bit to my sheltopusik and my baby blue tongue skink. By the time I had my bottle washed out the sheltopusik had half his gone already. It shouldn't have been because he was starving because he just had a dozen superworms this morning. I just peeked in on the BTS and his dish was empty as well. Its not going to be a regular part of their diet for sure but at least I know that at the end of the week I won't have any going to waste.

This got me wondering what other kinds of lizards, or any other animals for that matter, does anyone feed CGD to.
 
Dubia and orange head roaches -- when I mix up just a bit too much for the geckos, I'll put the extra in a dish and put it in the roach bins. Have to make sure I don't give them too much or the smaller roaches will get stuck in it.

Once in a while I'll mix some into some greens and veggies for box turtles. They don't really seem to get as excited about it as they do about some other foods (fresh cherries are their favorite, followed by that Zoo Med canned box turtle food that is a very occasional treat), but it is more variety for them.
 
Whenever we have nests of baby starlings fall into our back room, I mix it in with their wet food if I don't have fresh fruit to mash up for it.
 
My Chinese box turtles like it. I put leftover Pangea on their dry food.
Mourning geckos eat it too. So do crickets, dubia, invasive slugs....
 
I've offered it to sugar gliders before. Their natural diet is made up of insects and fruit, so I had a hunch they would like it. The little cuties would lick it right off my finger.
 
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