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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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Since it's a nice day here and it's been a while, I decided to snap a couple pictures of my rainbow boas a little while ago.

First is my '14 Brazilian, Lucy. Unfortunately she is in shed at the moment, but she still looks amazing in the sun! She's grown a lot in the last year or so and is just over 5' now. I'm hoping to find a nice male to pair up with her at some point.

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Next is actually the oldest animal in my care, my Colombian, Lill. He'll be 12 in September. My wife wants to get him a female leucistic to breed with. I figure he won't have any problem locking up and doing the job if we do since he's thrown sperm plugs a few times recently. He's always been very well behaved and good with strangers handling him. He's also the first snake I ever had who would seek me out among small groups of people, showing what appears to be the ability to recognize his care taker.
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I really love rainbows
there iridescence is just insane and both Look So healthy


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richardhind1972 said:
I really love rainbows
there iridescence is just insane and both Look So healthy


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Thanks! I quite enjoy them as well. I've had a soft spot for epicrates ever since I saw my first Brazilian at the national zoo in DC as a little kid. They had a bloodline that was so dark it was almost purple. I'd still love to find another like that. The darker they are in color the more their iridescence shows, so I'm not sure why it's so hard to find dark animals like that.

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Nice pictures! As much as I do truly enjoy the winter months, I always look forward to spring when I can get the slithers out into the sunshine again.
 
bcr229 said:
Nice pictures! As much as I do truly enjoy the winter months, I always look forward to spring when I can get the slithers out into the sunshine again.
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Same here. Spring decided to sleep in a bit for us this year. We had a few warm days earlier in the year, but not enough for the leaves to start coming in until just about a month ago. Now it's getting into herping weather, finally. Hopefully I can take some time to go play around in the woods soon.

How are you guys doing down there with the flooding that was going on? My family down that way have said it was pretty bad in places (though not nearly as bad as we've seen in old-town Harpers Ferry over the years) and my neighbors had to leave their camp up on the south branch in a hurry before they got flooded out last weekend.
 
wvaherp said:
How are you guys doing down there with the flooding that was going on? My family down that way have said it was pretty bad in places (though not nearly as bad as we've seen in old-town Harpers Ferry over the years) and my neighbors had to leave their camp up on the south branch in a hurry before they got flooded out last weekend.
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Mainly the areas that typically flood did so there were few surprises. The exception was around Paw Paw and some of the bridges that cross Back Creek.
 
Thanks for sharing your pictures. The BRBs are one of the original eye catching snakes our family continually enjoys.
 
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