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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.

Dont loose hope...

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If you have had a snake escape in the past.... dont loose all hope. You might just be surprised at who show's up one day. :yesnod:

**Im sitting here scratching my head**

Tonight Im sitting at my computer talking on the phone. The computer is now in the room that my reptiles used to be in. My cat was in the room with me and she's not scared of ANYTHING. If it moves... it's lunch!

So tonight Im sitting here and I hear a light sounding **thump** and she's backing away from the HVAC vent. That is VERY odd behavior for her... so I kinda look over at the vent. Her ears are kinda back... and now she has my curosity up. I look down at the vent.... I think I see a head.

I cant be seeing a head.... It's been a very long time since I had a snake escape. I cant be seeing a head. I go get a flashlight and tell the guy Im talking to.... "Hey I gotta go... something aint right!"

I'm still thinking... that cant be a head. I've been running the heat for months after the last escape. There is no way anything could survive down there.

I get the light and shine down the vent. IT'S A HEAD LOOKING BACK AT ME!!!!

Holy :censored:!!!!!!

I bend down to lift the vent cover and it retreats..... crap :angry:

So now Im thinking... do I blindly shove my hand into the vent (which in turn bends back towards me so I cant see anything) and risk shredding my hand.... OR

Yep... I followed 'plan B'.

I left the vent cover off and stepped back towards the door of the room (about 10 feet away). It wasn't long and a head started to poke out.... then a neck. Then she started looking around... then she started coming out..... and out...... and out..... and out.

:eek: How big is she :eek:

About 2 foot later she is completely out of the vent. I'm sure the AC being on helped facilitate her timely exit of the vent. Once she was completely out I took a box and covered the vent hole. She was NOT getting back in there.

She went in behind something and once I got the vent covered I moved it out of the way. I figured I was gonna get tagged for sure, but she never did. She was a bit cold, but she wasn't starved by no means. She had grown while she was chilling in the vent system. I dont know what she was eating... but she got a nice juicy mouse tonight and she is now chillin in a tub with fresh water and familiar surroundings.

I dont remember exactly when... but sometime last year... I had a normal corn escape. At the time I was scratching my head trying to figure out how she could have gotten out of the rack system. Now Im scratching my head trying to figure out how she survived. She had gotten so big she couldn't get back out of the vent covers.

So if you have a snake escape.... don't loose hope. You never know who will show up when you least expect it.
 
I'm so freaked by snakes,my whole heating system would be ripped out.I still don't think I'ld be convinced there weren't any more snakes....crazy.

I would imagine the stench if the snake didn't make it would be unreal.
 
She got wind that you were giving up the breeding game for bigger display enclosures and wanted to stay around.... lol
 
Years ago I had produced a nice little pair of dot dash cal kings I was holding back for breeding. When they were a month old, the female escaped.
At that time the snake room was a converted garage, and there was a small hole in the door facing where a hatchling colubrid could get outside.
After a week or so I figured that was what had happened.

Eight months later I had a group of hatchling bearded dragons in a 10 gallon tank one morning while I cleaned their tub. The tank was sitting on a 5 gallon bucket, with a basking light over it.
When I went to get the beardies I saw her, sitting on the bucket under the aquarium getting some heat from the basking light.

The most amazing thing was she had spent the winter loose in the snake room, but was noticeably larger than her brother who had been getting fed a couple times a week the whole time.
There were no rodents in the snake room, and it's safe to say if she had gotten outside there's no chance she would have just happened to find her way back in through that hole.
I have no idea what she had been eating, especially through the winter, but it has always made me wonder if our methods of keeping snakes are not as great as we'd like to think they are.

That 8 month escape is the longest I've gone and ended up finding it. I do still on occasion look around outside in the summer hoping to find a radiated ratsnake I lost about 12 years ago.
 
She was gone for over 6 months. Like you Clay... imagine my shock to see her again.
 
Haha, that's awesome! Everytime I lose a snake, I tear the house apart for hours and hours and it always seems like when I do find it, it's no more than 5-feet from where it got out.
 
I know the larger snakes can go a very long time with out food,is that the same for the smaller snakes?

Maybe ya had some mice coming in that hole Clay.No chance of a couple baby beardies becoming a dinner?
 
A lot of people have mice during the winter months without even knowing it. House mice make themselves comfortable and aren't afraid to let you know they are there..they set up shop and expect to stay forever. Field/deer/white-footed mice however pretty much just want to keep to themselves and 80% of the time you don't know they are there - come spring they move back outdoors.
 
zzzdanz said:
I know the larger snakes can go a very long time with out food,is that the same for the smaller snakes?

Maybe ya had some mice coming in that hole Clay.No chance of a couple baby beardies becoming a dinner?
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Corns have a higher matabolism than the boids.... so she has been feeding on something :shrug01:
 
I once had a Nelson's milk escape, and found it in the same room 5 months later, hanging out in my exoterra dart frog enclosure. Did it open the glass doors, or unlock the screen to get in, then close it behind itself? That was a very tight enclosure, as it had to contain fruit flies. It was not a large enclosure, and the snake was 2 feet long. Also amazing that a cb milksnake knew not to eat the darts, even though they aren't poisonous in captivity. Makes you think!
 
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