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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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I'm having an odd night. My male yearling-or-so ball just ate his usual adult mouse earlier, but is already climbing the walls again. I checked for a regurge, but there's not one. He hasn't outgrown them yet either, I don't think. If he's any fatter than they are, it's only slightly. I just got him off 2-3 hopper meals around Christmas, it was a huge battle.

His temps are same as always (90, 80), humidity is 50-60% (the usual range since I switched to aspen a long while back), he has fresh water, the tank is mostly-covered and quiet and all that good stuff.

The only thing different is that he did leave a huge poop earlier today, so he's all empty save for this one mouse, but I can't imagine it'd make that much difference, would it?

He is really active, I'm not sure *what* to think, heh. He won't give himself a regurge, will he? :ack2:

I'm really hoping he'll settle after the next meal or two (I feed every 7 days, I may go to every 6 for a while). If he's outgrown the adult mice already, I'll have to get out the small rats in the freezer again...and the last time I tried switching him, it was a disaster, he went off feed, the whole shebang. :(
 
It will be fine. It is likely just responding to the higher temps and humidity the past day or two. How much warmer is it outside today than yesterday down there? 20-30 degrees? It makes a difference.
 
The weather here hasn't changed, I just checked weather.com :confused:

And it wouldn't affect temperatures indoors and inside his tank either, I'd think?
 
Well, you could try just giving him a second mouse and see what happens, as opposed to trying a rat?
 
Cat_72 said:
Well, you could try just giving him a second mouse and see what happens, as opposed to trying a rat?
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He's nowhere near big enough for TWO adult mice, though, and that's all I have.
 
The animal is a year old and can't eat two mice? The weather has not changed at all? I am directly north of you and the weather here has varied as much as 40-50 degrees from one day to the next.
 
I'm surprised that at a year old, he isn't big enough to eat 2 mice? I have much younger balls that will eat 2 comparably sized rat pups in a single feeding without hesitation and do just fine. How big is he?
 
evansnakes said:
The animal is a year old and can't eat two mice?
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The adult mice I have are pretty big. And I think his growth was probably stunted a little, because he refused to eat anything but hoppers until the last couple months, and missed a bunch of meals this winter (including a random three-week fast). He didn't get real bony, but he didn't get much growing nutrients either, probably.
 
Cat_72 said:
How big is he?
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I just took some pics this morning, so:

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Mind you, I have little girly hands like a twelve-year-old, so don't go thinking those are normal-sized hands there. :hehe:
 
Well..not being certain just how big "girly 12 year old" hands are, lol (my 13 year old son's hands are much bigger than mine!)....but IMO he looks plenty big to be able to eat 2 mice.
 
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