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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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duds dude, duds...

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Well... after just pulling a dud egg out of one of my blizzards tubs, the third so far this season from various ladies, I got to wondering if the geckos can tell if an egg is a dud and just abort it to concentrate its bodies energies on producing a viable egg?

I only asl cause all of these geckos have laid clutchs prior to laying one dud, and one of them has gone on to lay a prefect clutch a little later, and, in the first two cases, a single viable egg was laid around a week or so after finding a dud. The other striking element is that in all three cases the dud egg was laid OUTSIDE of the laying box....

Any opinions on this?
 
I have known that if they lay outside their lay box, then it is most likely a dud. So I would think they know some how. But that does bring an interesting question to the table. It would be great if they could abort to save precious energy to create fertile eggs.
 
Ive had duds laid in and out of the lay box and even in the water dish. So Im not sure if they know. I found more in the lay box that out of the box.
 
I had a female lay 2 clutcheds of duds, about to lay her third and absorbed them. Mabey they do know...
 
LeosForLess said:
I had a female lay 2 clutcheds of duds, about to lay her third and absorbed them. Mabey they do know...
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Maybe the third was absorbed because she was disturbed close to laying... Thats not unheard of..
 
or maybe she knew. ahhh yes the geckos mind, such an enigma. i wish i could read my geckos minds. thatd be cool. they be even happier than they are now
 
I'm not sure if geckos have that mentality, however the animal kingdom is a wonderful and magnificent thing so it is VERY possible!
 
If anything Ide think it was more instinctual, if they did 'know'. But I also wonder if laying them out in the open doesnt just kill the egg? I know ive lost quite a few, that never made it into a lay box, but they didnt ever seem infertile to begin with. I thought the heat, or lack of moisture had killed the egg, myself, but who am I to say.
 
I opened all the "outside" the lay box eggs and all of them where clear, no sign of blood or veins or anything that would indicate they were fertile to begin with....

I think for the remainder of the season I will keep a really good record of where the eggs are laid and the result in regards to fertility....
 
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