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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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Just a note on effect of a change in lighting.

I posted a question here a while ago asking if UVA and UVB/full spectrum was necessary for beardies. Most of replies said YES - and lots of it. I also researched topic on Web. Conclusion - yes full spectrum UVB is both necessary and beneficial.

So, I switched from a "sunlight" 30 watt spot which also was supposed to provide UVA. We installed a fluor. UVB 15 watt (7% UVB) and a 75 watt incadescent. Lots more light + the UVB.

Our little beardie (6 months old) went from eating 3 crikets a day to now a pile of greens and 8-10 crikets daily. Now when I open the cage she jumps down from her perch and comes to the front to eagerly grab crikets out of my hand - she has no patience at all. She justs wants to eat eat eat.

Conclusion - change in light - more of it and addition of UVB fluor - increases appetite and apparent health.
 
Out of curiosity, what basking temperature are you using. Even 8-10 crickets is about half of what any of the dragons I ever had ate, and 3 is just nothing.
I fed hatchlings 12-18 appropriately sized crickets per day, spaced over 3 seperate feedings, and adult dragons would easily eat 2-3 dozen per day, all aside from the greens they got daily as well.
I noted temperature having a very strong effect of feeding response.
 
I fed hatchlings 12-18 appropriately sized crickets per day, spaced over 3 seperate feedings, and adult dragons would easily eat 2-3 dozen per day, all aside from the greens they got daily as well.
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That's great, but even baby beardies don't need that many crickets. I'd venture to guess they weren't eating a WHOLE lot of greens for you.

But I do agree - temperatures are VERY important for active, healthy beardies.
 
I'd venture to guess they weren't eating a WHOLE lot of greens for you.
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The adults did, but with the babies it was normally an individual thing, some ate greens fairly well while others were a few weeks old before they showed any interest in them.
The adults would eat a a fairly good portion of greens mixed with other vegetables daily, I always gave them the salad before insects just to try to get something in their stomach and cut down on the number of bugs I went through.

The most important thing to me was over the entire time I raised the beardeds I never had a single instance of conspecific agression among hatchlings, not one nipped tail or toes. I felt as long as they wanted more to eat, give it to them, and I feel this played a big part in preventing the nipped tails and such that happens regularly.
It was never a question of how many they needed, but what they wanted.

It should also be noted that I did always err on the side of caution regarding cricket sizes, so the 4-5 crickets the babies would eat three times per day may possibly not equal the same mass as what you might feed them yourself.
 
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