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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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Blugy Female???

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Well, a friend of mine that got one of two Leos housed together, called me up to let me know the power was out on his street and the house was getting cold. I told him to bring the Leo over and I could house HIM, for him, till the power was restored and the house was not so cold.

Now the first time I saw this Leo, was when my friend picked up my female for me, and brought her over here, he bought the male housed with her. Up until resent I thought that maybe his male was the father of one of my hatchlings, not sure. Fastforward to last month. He brought "Buddy" over for a weighing, I checked him out, and realized he looked like a she but still somewhat bulgy for a female. He was not to willing to be checked out so I had no chance to look at the pores under a magnifying glass. Now, I take a look at him again last night, this time I take a look at the pores, and guess what they aren't pores, just dents. However she still looks pretty bulgy for a female.

I'll have to take a picture of her, and post it. Meanwhile she is on loan to me to breed her. Just need to figure out who to breed her with.
 
hmm as in bulgy do you mean like, bigger "boned" lol :) like bigger head? Or just a fatter body? I have some females that could TOTALLY out bench some of my males ;)
 
It's not uncommon for me to question the gender of some of my offspring occasionally because they 'appear' to have hemipenile bulges even though they were incubated at 81-82 degrees. I agree that looking at the pores are the key... the males are very pronounced.

I guess it's pretty bad when an 11 year veteran like me can't even be 100% sure about sexing some of my babies! :>poke2<:
 
The funny thing about this female is when I first saw her, I thought I saw wax coming from the pores. It may have been just too quick of a glance that I thought I saw them. But He is now a She named Buddy. Now my friend has to tell his three kids that the Leo had a sex change....LOL She's a nice SHCTB so I'm going to breed her with my HT, and try to get some tang into her line. He doesn't want any of the babies, so I get to keep her for the season, while he gets visitations. She's not ovulating but I think if I give her a dark room for a week or so then bring her into the light she'll start right up.

I'm also starting to think that maybe her and my female may be sisters or related, due to similar colors. They both have about the same amount of CT and the black in the tail is faint, like a ghost, the only difference is mine is not a Baldy.

I'll post pictures sometime tomorrow, or Friday. Busy week for me with work, and I've got to find some time to sleep.
 
I do have some that are really "Pudgy" but I was talking about the bulges, and being completely stumped by a female, and thinking she was a male. LOL
 
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