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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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Happened to be in my old neighborhood and visited the petstore. They got a new display and decided to part with the old one. So I picked it up for next to nothing. Everthing including 4 strips of heat tape that are sandwiched between thin pieces of plexi and they slide into little grooves on the bottom of the cages.

8 cages
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4 cages for my bachelor leos, bottom 2 cages are for sinaloan milks. Need to attach the tracks for the glass & they will be ready to go.

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Top 2 cages, side by side arboreals, for my Grandis. Each cage has 2 sets of sliding glass doors.

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I am still cleaning (need to get the tape off the stand!) and putting the glass in. Will post pics. when I fill it tomorrow!
 
Very cool Ro. I can't wait to see it after you get it all set up.
Nice score!!!
 
No he got it next to nothing, but not for nothing! :) lol. Very nice setup, it is beautiful!
 
geesh, and i cant even get a 2.00 winner on the scratch offs!!!
 
Some more pics of the top arboreal cages. Don't have the grandis in these yet. The plants were bought at home depot and I had some extra cork bark laying around. Each cage is about 2' x 2' x 16".

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Ro, what is a Grandis? I think its a type of snake right? Or i could be totally wrong ;)
 
that would be a great set up for cresties too!!!
 
Very nice find! Ide be cleaning and steaming that for days before using it myself though. :ack2:

Hmmmm, one part w/ cresteds, dart frogs, and other arboreal geckos. Then what would be in the other part? Hmmmmm
 
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