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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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Well, I went to the pet shop to get some mice for my baby Balls about three weeks ago and found out that they had a female boa that someone abandoned on the front steps in a box. She must have been in wet bedding as her belly had signs of belly rot, and the pet shop had put her in a dry large aquarium with good heating. She was in blue when I saw her. I took her home a few days later after I got a place set up for her and she was still in blue but it was obvious that she should have shed. I soaked her in the bathtub in warm water for half an hour then went to work helping her shed her skin. The shed on her nose was at least three sheds thick and she had a large scrape wound going down her neck.

After working for 45 minutes with her I finally got all the skin off her and was she happy about that. As I was working it off, she would push against my hand, which made things much easier than if she was fighting to get away. Her belly looked puckered and funny after I was done but after a few days of resting on her heat in comfort her belly looked normal and was fine and active.

I was VERY pleased to see her eat a F/T jumbo rat without any hesitation.

Here are some pics of her and my male (who I got from the same pet shop last year). They are in the large "feeding box" so I could get good shots of them both.

She is a beautiful light color with lots of pinks, soft greys and her saddles have lots of orangy and light brown colors in them. My male, as you can see, has a rich dark saddle color with sandy colored circles and he has wonderful silver/grey sides, which you can't see well in these pics, with a stripe down his sides the color of his saddles.

Yeah, they are both "normals" but great examples in my view. I love the looks of both of them. Hopefully I will have a nice litter from them sometime in the future!
 

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Here's more pics. There is a shot of each of their bellies. The female has a nice clean belly except for lots of pink coloration on it.
 

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Nice looking female. I'd have taken her too. She has some nice clean reduced markings and lots of orange showing through. Sorta pastel like. A orange tail salmon would be a good pairing for her.
I like the male too. Nice crisp pattern.


Thanks for sharing!
Rick
 
Thank you for your replies! :)

Yes, I was very glad to see her nice light coloration with all the pinks and orangy tones after she was shed. I call her my "poor man's" pastel....LOL.

I do have an account with Photobucket, just didn't want to take the time to load up the pics. I guess I should do so.

Maybe I will get lucky and have some babies next spring. They are both a bit over 7 1/2 feet long. :D
 
Its nice to see she is in a good home now. I hope she has a bunch of big fat babies for you next year. Good luck.
Dennis
 
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