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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.

Love the changes... a keeper methinks...

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I love the way these babies change... here's our first bell het the day it hatched...

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and here it is three weeks later, doin' some posin' and some wall swimmin'!

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The color coming out on her is simply amazing... and growing like a weed, I would have weighed her but my scales are FUBARED, reading 50 grams as 3.6 lol.... I wish my bathroom scales did that...

Thanks for looking!
 
Thanks Glen... here's another showing her eyes, don't mind the poop under her there, as soon as you clean a tub these wee fellas are quick to soil it again...lol...

But yeah, I am really amazed by her eyes, they are BLACK BLACK... is that normal in hatchlings or is this something not seen often? Thanks for the input guys...

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Cory,
I think that is fairly normal in a lot of hatchlings. I'm checking out all the eyes of my hatchlings much more carefully now since all this "eye morph" stuff started and I'm noticing that hatchling eyes are usually pretty dark. But, you never know! That gecko does look to have pretty black eyes! If they stay dark like that, then that would be pretty cool. Beautiful hatchling by the way! Just wait till it hits 25 grams or so...then you'll be blown away! Usually when you've got one that looks that nice as a babe, it turns into something pretty special :)
 
Yeah Paul, with the exception of one of the 4 hatchlings that came out the same time, they all had pretty dark eyes, the other two have lightened up considerably but that one above has, if anything, gotten even darker. It will be interesting to see how that develops.

And yes.... I can't WAIT for her to get even bigger... thanks for the comment
 
Nice babys Cory! Is it just me, or are their tails showing abit of the long tail that has been mentioned in the bells by Kelli? Maybe I'm just seeing things... :eek3:
 
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