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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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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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.

How many crickets are you feeding?

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Just curious...

I have read that you should let your beardies eat as many crickets as they would like in about 10 minutes...My guy, Thor, eats a LOT! Wondering what is 'normal' what your beardies can eat in that time frame...My girl, eats very few and seems to be more of the 'salad type' ;):D
 
Id say my male can eat 15-25 large crickets no problem but Id rather feed him like 5 crickets 2 roachs & some greens just so the crickets will last acouple days...
 
Okay...I was wondering, cuz Thor can easily eat 20 crickets in way less than 10 minutes. Maybe if I fed him less of those he would eat more of his greens! Getting close to time to order more crickets. Do you have a favorite supplier Devan?
 
LLLReptile.com is where I always ordered my crickets from. Good service and overnight shipping is included in the price. I was getting ready to try out Ghann's because of all the great things I kept hearing about them, but I've recently switched to roaches and my dragons no longer want ANYTHING to do with crickets.

Roaches may cost more, but you can easily breed your own, and they don't stink!
 
I buy from LLL reptile but a local reptile store more often cuz the owner has realy good prices $1 to 30-40 crickets. & I have a group of 400 Dubia roachs so i rarely buy crickets except lately ive had no small/medium roachs for my smaller dragons so ive been resorting to crickets...
 
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