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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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o.k. i know i mite get hell for this, but i felt like there was no other choice, the story goes. i had a clutch that was at 30 days and looked like they were drying out all dimpled and looked liked raisins. i have tried everything at that point, wet paper towel, covering them with wet vermiculite, adding more water to the bedding. nothing was working they kept getting worse. after alot of reading and a hard decision, i cut them open on day 40. the shell was like a wafer and it was hard and brittle. inside the egg was this white embryo that was almost dry, i added some bottled water to the inside of the egg that was incubator temp. and i have been making sure that there was no infection and made sure they did not dry out. i have to say it was really kool to watch them get color and grow. as you guys can see it has worked. would i say that you should do the same thing i would say no. and as you guys can see from the pics it has worked better then i have expected.
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They need to be in a container to lower the loss of water from the eggs...I learned that early on...my 1st year producing i put them in an open container in my incubator and it was a battle the entire time of incubation...lost a few too dehydration....then I watched a video on RDR site and I saw what he did and I did something similair the following season and no more problems...
 
that guy is is fine as of now, he was just being a goof ball. once they have all come out of the eggs i will post an update pics but as far as i see it they are all looking good.
 
I did that once.... ok, twice. :eek:

The first time I simply counted the days wrong. The second time was a situation like yours where they were way to dry so I did it to hydrate them to keep the yolk from hardening.

The biggest thing to watch out for is carrion fly maggots. Pain in the butt to get them all out. I'd of course never recommend it and do whatever you can to address drying issues early.

The first clutch it happened to went fine and everyone was good. The second one I lost 3 of the 5 due to the yolks hardening (I was too late). The 2 that did make it were extremely small and needed to be babied along for months.
 
Do you have any photos of when you first cut the eggs? Honestly I'd kind of love to see that!
 
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