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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.

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    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 locale is my Rosy?

DavidBeard

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I recently adopted this female Rosy Boa and I was wondering if some of you with more experience could help me ID what locale she may be?

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She looks like a mix. Part Coastal (the blue/grey stripes). But the lines are too straight to be pure Coastal. Anyone else have any ideas what else she might be?
 
David, I know you've read a few of my recent locality rants. Unless you know for a FACT exactly where the animal or the animal's anscestors were collected, it's not a locality specific animal. You might say it shares certain traits with a given locale, as the above poster did, but this is not the same as BEING that locale.

Plus rosy locality fanatics are as bad as the Grayband nuts, they want GPS coordinates and collection data. Saying it "looks kind of like a..." will not fly with them.
 
I've had a discussion with people (ok, it was an internet discussion) who wanted more locality specific Kenyan sand boas. I'll admit it would be NICE if we knew which country our snakes came from, but they wanted to import snakes from another continent just so they could have a Uganda locality KSB, instead of choosing one of thousands perfectly healthy CB mutts. And you know how many snakes you have to import to have a viable breeding colony. Taking hundreds of animals out of the wild just because they spots might be different- doesn't make any sense to me. (and we're talking might- I'm not convinced that there would be any visible differences distinguishing the animals they were talking about)

--> The Short Version: I agree with Seamus.

Erin B.
 
What's the deal with why people are so anal about what locality a rosy is from? I don't hear them doing that with any other kinds of snakes.
 
Anal is an overstatement by a mile. Rosy boas are distributed over a large area of the U.S. Locales all have their on unique looks. Crossing them takes away the unique looks that they have. Besides, there are just a lot of people who like the look of the pure lines. Mixes can be cool, but they are worth less.
Besides, they are all their own specific subspecies. So it is technically like breeding different types together, instead of 2 of the same.
Cant really think of another example.
Maybe Eastern and Western African Gaboon Vipers.
 
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