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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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I'm confused, small mealworms=small aliens and beetles?

R

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I now have 4 very young AFT's and one very young leo. So i put aside a container of some of my small mealworms to feed to them. I had been doing this for a while with my two female AFT's before i got the newbies. So today i got out the container to count out worms for each and i find that none of the worms have really grown, a good thing since i need them small. I then found a very small alien, not a normal size at all. Has anyone seen this before? These worms have come from my own colony and as long as they remained in the bin they grew. Since moving a bunch to the smaller container (less work finding them than in a huge bin) they have not grown that big and i'm finding small aliens which i assume will turn into small beetles. Its weird cause i thought no matter what the worms would grow to the size of my adult bin full and that the change from worm to beetle only took place after they reached a certain size. I'm talking small worms, no thicker than the inside of a pen (that holds the ink) and no longer than maybe an inch.....baby worms. They have the same gutload as the worms in the bins too.

My baby geckos are eating them up so i like the fact the worms are small, just curious if anyone has seen them change into beetles at such a small size.
Thanks
Red :)
 
i've had this happen befor

i bred my mealies a while back, i had about..say..5-700 babies, no longer then the tip of my finger, mealies are supposed to be in a certain temperature, i kept mine where the temps stayed at 80, alot of the babies turned into ailens but never beetles, after about 2 weeks they became black and started to smell bad, i think they morph faster when the temps are a bit higher, i keep my mealies at 70*f now and hav'nt seen an alien for a while, i only feed mealies to my insectivorous herps except my beardies(they get superworms and crickets from LLLREPTILE.COM)
so they dont last any longer than a month here..mealies are weird.. lol
 
Well none of these aliens have turned into beetles......most have gone black. It must be something to do with the temps as Tokay Dude said but its rather cool down here right now. (((Something thats nice in the summer and sucks big time in the winter)))

Maybe the temps have gone up cause they are in a smaller container as opposed to a large bin.

Anyways, thanks for the input, i'm going to move them to a larger container and see what happens :)

Red :)
 
Mealworms turn into beetles. The alien things are the middle stage between worm and beetle. To prolong the life of your mealies, keep them in the refigerator. They will go in a hibernation state and wont morph and only minimal numbers will die.

Sarlina
 
Refrigeration.......

I lost about 4000 mealworms that way. I used to keep them in the fridge all the time with no problems but then i lost that bunch. Now i've just let them go about their business and i've got a very nice colony going. What i was confused about was that i noticed the worms change into aliens ONLY after they had reached a certain size. The worms i was talking about were still very small and the aliens they produced (or changed into) were very tiny as well.

I order a few thousand mealworms every now and then to help suppliment my colony. Its great that i have the smaller worms for my babies but i was hoping that they didn't change or pupate so quickly.

Red :)
 
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