• 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.

A couple of my Non-Tangs......

Gregg M

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Here is a 6 year old wild caught male.....
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Here is a "purple" blizzard..... She has been this color since she hatched 3 years ago....
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Here is a pretty girl.....
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Up close head shot.....
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Nice Leos

The blizzard and the last girl are really nice, kinda miss having blizzard myself but that won't last much longer...
 
Thanks for sharing Gregg...
I really like that last one! Her bold head pattern rocks. Great picture quality too...by the way. :) Let me know if you get some offspring from that female. thanks
 
Awesome pics and leos!! I like the looks of all of those and that WC male is super cool!
 
Hey Gregg where did you get a wild caught at? Love to get my hands on one! He looks like my oldest male, Romeo. Except Romeo is exceptionally stout...head like a pit bull with a great temperment though. Good looking leos, good to see you aren't limiting yourself to tangs!
 
Ro,
I got him mid 1999 from an importer in Long Island NY..... It was some of the last imports he was getting..... I got him as a juvi around 25, 30 grams.... I think it is pretty cool that he is not related to any other stock in the US accept maybe a sibling or 2, that may have come in with him..... He eats like a pig and keeps that slender look to him...... I will be using him this year to cross out that female blizzard and I will also breed him to that last girl I posted a pic of.....

Thanks for the compliments everyone.....

Paul, I will let you know when she lays some eggs....
 
Gregg, it’s so strange seeing these geckos of yours. I’m so used to seeing your killer tangerines. ;) Great looking geckos…
 
Yeah, I know Cody.... But hey, you gotta love the regular stuff too...LOL...
 
nice gregg

for a second there i thought you stole my jungle girl! LOL

just look at their patterns..

going by body pattern...
Yours..
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Mine..
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Hey Gregg ,nice nostril shot, is that a booger? :>poke2<:

Dan spooky how alike they look,. :argue: are they siblings?

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wow

The two really DO have similar body patterns! I have never seen a W/C leo with that much yellow! My vet's are kind of tan/brown. Lovely geckos, everyone!
 
Marcia,
They came in on a shipment from India.... That does not mean much because they could have been collected from anywhere and just exported from India....
 
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