• Posted 12/19/2024.
    =====================

    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.

    =====================
    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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    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.

Gecko Morph History

W

weswright

New member
Joined
Mar 23, 2005
Messages
256
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Age
42
Location
Prescott Valley
Some of the new people to the hobby may find it intersting if we post some info on the history of leopard gecko morphs. (ie. who was the first to breed what and so on.) I think most know of Tremper but if some one feels so inclined, please post about him too.

edit-revised question
 
A lot of it's already been discussed on this board. Just type in keywords into the Search Forum tool.
 
Let me see if I can give you some info..

First to breed..

Tangerines - David Nieves and Gourmet Rodent
Super Hypo Carrot Tails - Ray Hine
Jungle, Striped, Reverse Stripe - Tremper
Red Stripe - High Quality Reptiles
Blizzard - Mark Bell, Jay Vella
Blazing Blizzard - Rainwater - VMS Herp, Tremper - Jay Vella, Bell - HISS
and the Albino strains were originated by their namesakes (Rainwater - Tim Rainwater, Bell - Mark Bell, Tremper - Ron Tremper)

There's a little bit of info for you. :)
 
KelliH said:
Let me see if I can give you some info..

First to breed..

Tangerines - David Nieves and Gourmet Rodent
Super Hypo Carrot Tails - Ray Hine
Jungle, Striped, Reverse Stripe - Tremper
Red Stripe - High Quality Reptiles
Blizzard - Mark Bell, Jay Vella
Blazing Blizzard - Rainwater - VMS Herp, Tremper - Jay Vella, Bell - HISS
and the Albino strains were originated by their namesakes (Rainwater - Tim Rainwater, Bell - Mark Bell, Tremper - Ron Tremper)

There's a little bit of info for you. :)
Click to expand...

What about the giant,leucistic,baldies,hybinos,aptor,patternless albino and snow.
(melanistic & purple ??)
 
Wait, so Garrick was not the first with Rainwater blazzing?

KelliH said:
Let me see if I can give you some info..

First to breed..

Tangerines - David Nieves and Gourmet Rodent
Super Hypo Carrot Tails - Ray Hine
Jungle, Striped, Reverse Stripe - Tremper
Red Stripe - High Quality Reptiles
Blizzard - Mark Bell, Jay Vella
Blazing Blizzard - Rainwater - VMS Herp, Tremper - Jay Vella, Bell - HISS
and the Albino strains were originated by their namesakes (Rainwater - Tim Rainwater, Bell - Mark Bell, Tremper - Ron Tremper)

There's a little bit of info for you. :)
Click to expand...
 
What about the giant,leucistic,baldies,hybinos,aptor,patternless albino and snow.
Click to expand...

Giant - Ron Tremper
Leucistic (better known as patternless) - Jay Vella
Baldies- (this trait goes along with the hypo carrot tail) - Ray Hine
Tremper Hybinos - Ray Hine
Bell Hybinos - HISS
Rainwater Hybinos - not sure.. I hatched one early lasy year, there may have been others before that though
Patternless - See Leucistic above
Albino - I already answered that, see my post above
Co-dom Snow - John Mack
Selectively bred snow - A1 Reptile (not 100% sure on this)

Wait, so Garrick was not the first with Rainwater blazzing?
Click to expand...

I think actually he was. Now that I am thinking about it again, I remember some controversy over him posting pictures on kingsnake of the first RW blazing. Sorry about that Garrick (if you are reading).
 
Yep that sounds about right

KelliH said:
Giant - Ron Tremper
Leucistic (better known as patternless) - Jay Vella
Baldies- (this trait goes along with the hypo carrot tail) - Ray Hine
Tremper Hybinos - Ray Hine
Bell Hybinos - HISS
Rainwater Hybinos - not sure.. I hatched one early lasy year, there may have been others before that though
Patternless - See Leucistic above
Albino - I already answered that, see my post above
Co-dom Snow - John Mack
Selectively bred snow - A1 Reptile (not 100% sure on this)



I think actually he was. Now that I am thinking about it again, I remember some controversy over him posting pictures on kingsnake of the first RW blazing. Sorry about that Garrick (if you are reading).
Click to expand...
I remember his post.................
 
thanks kelli..

Maybe you should pin your post at the top of the forum so people wont have to keep asking it every few months. Its nice to see the wealth of information you and the others have on Leopard geckos and always more then willing to share your experience and information with others.

KelliH said:
Giant - Ron Tremper
Leucistic (better known as patternless) - Jay Vella
Baldies- (this trait goes along with the hypo carrot tail) - Ray Hine
Tremper Hybinos - Ray Hine
Bell Hybinos - HISS
Rainwater Hybinos - not sure.. I hatched one early lasy year, there may have been others before that though
Patternless - See Leucistic above
Albino - I already answered that, see my post above
Co-dom Snow - John Mack
Selectively bred snow - A1 Reptile (not 100% sure on this)



I think actually he was. Now that I am thinking about it again, I remember some controversy over him posting pictures on kingsnake of the first RW blazing. Sorry about that Garrick (if you are reading).
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top