• 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.
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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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    New Satanics...(dial up warning)

    Well ... SATANICS I love thee... Here's a BUNCH of pics from the two satanics we received today... I haven't had a chance to see them much yet, Dee picked them up.... but here's the pics... Very cool!
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    Favorite wee ones

    Was cleaning out the tubs tonight and noticed how nice some of the younger leos were, these 4 are among my favs, all 3 are a month old or younger... First a very nice 100% het bell... No sign of any head spotting on this one yet and the tang is something else! Speaking of tang, this is the...
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    YAY, my first leos for sale ever!

    VERY excited, about to offer my first leos up for sale ever... thought I would share the pics of 'em here.... These are all males, I kinda got a weird outcome from my incubation, they were all incubated at 84 degrees, so I wsa expecting a mix, but there still should have been a higher...
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    Screeeeeeeeeeeeach....

    Here's our fourth albino leo hatchling so far this season, nicknamed Jellybean (considering the colors). He is BY FAR the most vocal of our hatchlings thus far. All day yesterday, if you so much as moved his tub, you heard the "SCREEEEEEE!!!!" of a very PO'd hatchling lol. If you've never...
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    Hatchling shed problems...

    I have a little bell albino hatchling that has been having some issues when shedding. One time she/he was totally gloved and getting constricted, it was that bad we feared that she might lose an eye from being constricted and the eye being forced to stay open from the tight shed, this occoured...
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    Holdback updates and changes since hatch

    Boy, I don't think ANYTHING changes quite as much as a leo hatchling, though fat tail hatchlings are a close second. Here are two of our first leos of the year, both ended up being holdback, when they hatch Jan 27th, 06.... And here they are now, less than 3 months later... First Yin, the...
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    Your FAV 06er so far....

    I figure a lot of people, myself included, have been making individual posts showing off their favorites of the 06 season. I thought it might be a nice idea to start a thread where you would post your absolute fav so far this season, give people a chance to see the best of the best all in one...
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    Pink little Bell...

    I don't post pics of every thing I hatch out, though almost, but this little fella was just too cute, was waiting for us in the incubator when we returned from Easter... kind of appropriate in color! A question for those of you working with Bells, are they usually yhat pink when they hatch out...
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    Bunch of Baby Leo Pics ( Dial up beware! )

    Its a fairly sunny day here today so I decided to take some pics of our 2006 leos in the sun coming through the herp room window... First, some of the Bell Albinos Hets we will have for sale very soon, may even be posting these four on the shop site this weeked.... Next some of our...
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    Thirsty?

    hehe.... we thought this was cute.... I guess that all that work getting out of the egg is thirsty work!
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    First Bell Albino hatched

    VERY cool... man these things are so pink and light sensitive when they hatch out... this one hatched out this morning and I snapped a very quick pic of her before I settled her away, no flash or anything as they are very light sensitive... I'll get some better pics as she grow for sure! Notice...
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    Sunlight pics of some hets...

    Was cleaning tanks today and decided to take a couple of pics of two bell hets we are holding back, and a third that may very well be held back as well... First, Bumblebee... a hold back. We are holding this one back based mostly on the basis of its size, its not a giant by any stretch, but...
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    Bell Het Teaser...

    I've been posting mostly pics of the two hold backs I have... but here are some pics of some other bell hets we have hatched out this season, all of these are up for grabs and will be posted on my shop site over the next couple of months. Right now they range from 5 weeks to 2 weeks of age and...
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    Clutchmate difference update

    When we had our first clutch hatch out this year I made a post commenting on how different they were and how interesting it is to see the genetic combo of Mom and Dad expressed so differently... Here's the clutch in question when they hatched.... And here they are now... Absolute monsters...
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    Pretty pleased with this one too....

    Bell Het hatched out on Feb 17th... coming in nicely.... Thanks for looking!
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    Partial Stripe?

    opinions please? I got this leo as a hypo when it was around 2 months old. It has since gotten some interesting pattern on it. It is around 6 months old now. I dunno what it take to be called a stripe or a partial stripe but I was wondering if anyone felt that would be applied here...
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    Changes in AFT

    Thought it might be interesting to do a little pic timeline of the changes in our first fattie, BB... Here's the timeline from hatch till now, 2 months.... those were all around a week and a half to two weeks apart... now here she is today, 12 days after that last pic... and the...
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    black eyes in hatchlings?

    I asked a few folks about this when I got my first clutch this season, one of them were born with pitch black eyes.... the other with the typical blue-ish gray type eyes I expected... now the general consensus was as the black eyed leo aged the black would fade... I'm wondering, how long would...
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    Few hatchling pics

    Had someone on my site ask for pics of my hatchlings so far this season, so I went to work this morning and took them..lol... just the bell hets and a little something different I sneaked in at the end.... enjoy First the bell hets... they are posted in hatching order... Some are...
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    Love the changes... a keeper methinks...

    I love the way these babies change... here's our first bell het the day it hatched... and here it is three weeks later, doin' some posin' and some wall swimmin'! The color coming out on her is simply amazing... and growing like a weed, I would have weighed her but my scales are...
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