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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.

Het Pied female that didnt want to eat is doing spectacularly

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I got this girl at Hamburg, she was small, but i did not really think about that too much ( there were not a ton of Het Pied females available that day, either and i definitely was set on getting one) Guy had a pied on his table and a couple other hets and a few other things, shes got good markers and im not too worried about that part. Asked if she was eating and he said she was, live or FT...

We get home and get everybody set up and a few days later i try feeding, most everyone else took, except for her.

She was around 40-50 grams when i got her? must have JUST hatched... ridiculous. Anyway, this girl wouldnt eat. at all. I started looking for various other types of food to get for her, but unfortunately had a hard time this go getting african soft furs, which i was going to breed to feed to her if she needed.

Couldnt find them so i started assist feeding her. She started doing well, finally, was gaining weight and looking better, i had her around 90-100 grams? while still trying ( gently) a live mouse or rat pup, small, dead ( prekilled) frozen thawed and the like. I wouldnt offer them all at once or every single feed, i didnt want to add tress, She started taking assist feeding with me just simply placing the food in her mouth, i had hope. Tried everything under the sun that i had available for her to no avail.

Temps and set up are fine, entirely. I wasnt holding her, ONLY doing her water and such and just pretty much leaving her entirely alone. I wanted NO other outside issues to make this worse.

FINALLY a few weeks ago i gave her another live adult mouse and she HAMMERED it. I couldnt believe it!!!! The next feeding i did the same, another live mouse, HAMMERED!!!! Stoked! So stoked! She ate entirely of her own accord and tonight i gave her a frozen thawed mouse, HAMMERED IT. She took a bit to start swallowing it, but i watched her gulp the last bit down a few moments ago. <3! Incredible. I am nothing but totally happy. If she wasnt going to start feeding on her own id have had to scratch her from my plans and buy another female. But now that shes eating, im so happy.

She started to crawl out of the tub, showed her the mouse and started tongue flicking and BAM. Pretending to be a green tree python or something.
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Amazing how they all of a sudden switch gears like nothing was ever wrong. Congrats Moo, great to see your perseverence paid off :thumbsup:
 
awesome news! I love it when they finally go! It's such a good feeling, she finally figured out, hey this eating thing is pretty cool.
 
Was totally happy :) Thanks guys! I cant wait to see how quickly she catches up to her boyfriend too. Shes close now, but still a bit smaller. This eases my stress about her so much.
 
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