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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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Well, as some of you may know, I've had a real string of crappy luck lately....I mean really crappy. The ol man and I finally had decided to take off for a few days on the Harley, and just ride....hoping to relax, recuperate, and just get get the heck away from it all for awhile, leaving the teenage children in care of the house and critters (with frequent visits from family and a couple of ou good friends). It seemed to work....til we got home anyway.

Long story short, sometime during our leave of absence, my incubator got unplugged. Of course, no one knows how, when, or why....but since it was right at 70 in there, it had to be for a length of time.

Anyway, I have ONE clutch out of everything left that hadn't already hatched that I have any hope for (an albino x 50% het albino), I had some hope for 2 eggs out of an albino clutch that looked to be staying "normal"....I cut the eggs, and saw 2 that still looked viable. One died, and one brave little fighter had the strength to make it this far out of the egg....and that was it. He's gone too. I'm just freaking sick.

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The remaining clutch was about halfway thru incubation when this happened....anyone have any thoughts on their chances of making it? I'm guessing it was at least a couple of days the heat was completely off.
 
God Cat.... i am so sorry.

That picture just makes me really sad for you... :( I cant offer any help as to your eggs... but i hope that they have a chance at making it, and will continue to develop and hatch out some albinos for you. Im really crossing my fingers for ya hon!
 
Cathy, I am soo sorry that this happenned to you, my sincerest condolences.
 
OH! That just really sucks!
As far as the clutch half way through~ I really don't know if they'll make it or not. I've not had it happen with reptile eggs~ but I had something similar happen to the most recent clutch of chicken eggs I did. Most of the clutch continued to develop but only 7 of the 18 eggs successfully hatched. Something is better than nothing~ turn the bator back on and cross your fingers. Hopefully they will be okay.
 
Thanks John, Cheryl, and John too. I appreciate it.

The bator has been back on, and we've got everything crossed we can cross....
 
OMG! I am so sorry.
I wish you all the best with the ones still incubating. I hope they make it for you.
 
Ouch Cat.... I am truly sorry.
 
Cat,

I'm confident everything will go OK with the remaining eggs. A one-day temperature fluctuation is not usually that bad unless of course it is so cold that it will kill the developing embryos. Please let us know one way or the other. Good luck!
 
Wow. how sad!
I'm very sorry for your loss.
We lost power this spring and my incubator went down to 76 for about 14 hrs, and it did not seem to effect the eggs at all, but I am not sure about 2 days at 70????
Good luck, and keep us posted.
 
That really stinks =( I hope the rest do alright for you =)
 
Thanks, everyone.

I honestly don't know how long it was unplugged....I'm thinking it must have been at least a couple of days, with as low as even the core temps were. I've had power outages before, and it took quite some time for the temps to drop even into the 80's inside the egg containers, the substrate and eggs themselves seemed to hold the heat to some degree longer than the inside of the incubator itself. We were gone for a total of 5 days, so....with kids denying all knowledge I'll never know for sure.

The clutches I lost were all within a shorter time frame til hatching, all within about week or 2 from the day we got home. With the remaining clutch having so much longer to go, I'm hoping it will somehow make a difference. The eggs still look firm and white, and seem to look OK when candling them.

It was just one thing to watch the other eggs go bad, but something else to see this little guy actually make it this far and then lose him.
 
That sucks. My condolences.
Kids can't survive without their cell phones. Use that against them....one will narc quickly.
 
Thanks, Rich, Deb, Tom.

Murphy said:
Kids can't survive without their cell phones. Use that against them....one will narc quickly.
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Actually, I tried that...they both still denied any knowledge. But the fact that there was an extension cord plugged into the spot where the incubator had been plugged in tells me that it obviously didn't just "come unplugged". I think that at this point, their fear and guilt goes even beyond need for cell phone, something I'd never thought I'd live to see. :shrug01:
 
The destruction I'd rain down for something like what happened to you here, shows me it's good I don't have kids. I understand that mistakes can happen & that's part of growing up, but someone murdered your babies... bless you for containing yourself, Cat. And sorry again for your loss.
 
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