• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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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.

What projects are you working on?

Shiffy420 said:
lol yeah a lot of mouths to feed and a lot of cages to clean, 62 snakes to be exact, lol. Just went on a 6hour cleaning/ water bowl changing spree :ack2: i've got about 40 leopard geckos too and i cleaned them as well. I'll be honest w/ you my odds on the snowball aren't that great but it would be awsome! male Albino het Jolliff axanthic X het jolliff axanthic het albino, so i won't hold my breath for everything to line up perfect but i do have a chance, besides i should still atleast get some jolliff axanthics and albino's out that deal! I can keep my fingers crossed though :D
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I take about a whole day to clean up everything...ack. But then again whats Sunday good for? Haha. Very true! At least you might gets some great axanths and you still have a chance of snows. :)
To the ball gods....lol.
 
Whoohoo, just saw this thread. I only have one pairing going so far, but it is a doozy. Pastel het hypo to Mojo het hypo. The same Mojo het hypo will be paired up with my Cinnamon for the first time this week as well:

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First Attempt *UPDATED*

So after several months of going from "knowing" she was gravid, to "knowing" I didn't know what I was doing. I went ahead and set up my incubator. Went with a DIY fridge conversion with circulating air and a Spyder Robotics temp controller. I had all but given up hope when this morning I awoke to an egg and an angry girl in the midst of laying. So heres to hoping for the best One of the 5 eggs is and obvious no go but I have high hopes for the other 4. Wish me luck
 
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o lets see i have multiple projects going pastel yellowbellyhet orange ghost to het orange ghost, orange ghost to orange ghost, pewter to bumblebee, albino to albino,orange ghost to spider het ghost, pin to lesser, spider to black pastel, black pastel to 8 ball, 8 ball to lemon pastel, pied het black pastel to 8 ball. and some other odds and ends and hopefully next year my black widow will breed.:D
 
So here I Go

Here is what I got going

Caramel Albino X Ivory
Albino Spider X Albinos
Pieds X Het Pieds
Butter X Pastels
Josie Ball (co-dom/dom but no super yet) X Normals
Caramel X Het Caramel
Albino Spider X Mojave
Butter X Hypo
Yellow Belly Pastel X Pastel Disco Ball
Hypo X Calico
Lesser X Calico
Bee X Calico
Mojave Spider X Phantom
Pin X Phantom
Pied X Phantom
YB X YB


Thats it for now I think lol.
 
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