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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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Help! Cup feeding issues!!!

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WHY is it that all three of my chams suddenly prefer to be hand fed after being cup trained?? I always fill their cups with non climbing, gut loaded roaches and put a little piece of fruit or veggie to keep them gutloaded in the morning before I leave for work. For the past month, every time I get home from work around 3:30 pm there's no change in the number of roaches in their cups. So, I started taking the roaches out of their cups and offering them on my hand to my three panther chams (which are for sale, btw). Suddenly the same roaches they've been ignoring all day are just the greatest - they nearly leap out of their cages to take them! When fed this way, they eat every single roach offer until they're bursting!

What gives, am I doing something wrong with the cup feeding? I clean the cups every single day, and they're white so the B. Lateralis I feed them stand out...
 
How old are they? And is it the same size cup you have always used?

I noticed in my panthers that once they hit a year old they would eat a lot every other or every 3rd day.

And they could just be getting spoiled....
 
One is just past a year old and the other two hit a year old next month. These are the same cups I started them on.

Wow, I've been feeding these critters 6-8 Lateralis EVERY day. No wonder they've been putting themselves on a diet.

I love spoiling these critters...it's just getting time consuming, lol
 
Id take the cup for 2 days then see if they eat from it, it may be that its their age.

If they have gotten spoiled they may still not eat out of it, butyou can try 2 days then 3 and see what happens. Sometimes a different food will spark then to eat on their own again too.

Since you mentioned selling them, what kind are they?
 
I'm going out to get some big 'ole crix right after work tomorrow, so I can gutload them for a couple of days. What a great idea!

A virgin pair of Ambanjas and one virgin Ambilobe/Nosey Be cross, all three bought from Kammerflage Kreations. I have them advertised in the chameleons section. I'm asking $250 for the cross and $300 each for the Ambanjas, I'd take $550 for the Ambanja pair. I have never exposed the males to each other until today; I was recently told they color up when you do this. You should have seen how the Ambanja (Zeus) colored up, WOW! I've never seen anything like it! He literally turned greenish yellow between his glowing blue bands. What beauty! Charlie, the cross also got even brighter than he usually is.

It kills me to sell my beloved pets, but I'm unexpectedly expecting our first child (boy) and I know I won't have the time to devote to them that they deserve.
 
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