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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.

Pituophis Images Needed

KJUN

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Howdy all:

I've been contacted by a publisher to write an intermediate to advanced hobbyist level book on the entire Pituophis-complex. It will cover everything from natural history to captive breeding and color morphs. Luckily, my wife is a DVM and PhD, so there will be an excellent section on diseases, too. Tentatively, I'm planning to have images of each subspecies and their habitat in the natural history section. In the captive breeding section, I'd like to have images of as many color morphs as possible.

The images need to be a minimum of 300dpi at "print size," but higher resolution is better. Outside images take under natural light conditions are better than inside ones, but it is not necessary to have all of the images in "natural looking" settings.

I'm also going to be in dire need of images of breeding, egg incubation, hatching, adult and juvenile cages and racks, PROBLEMS such as dystocia and dysecdysis, various cage substrates, etc. In other words, if you SEE it keeping Pituophis, I'd like an image of it!

I'm trying to get images from as many people as possible as long as they won't mind me using them for this book. Of course, credit will be given in the book to the photographer that owns the image. If you've got any such images, please send them to me at [email protected]. If you know anyone else that might be interested in letting me use some of their images, please feel free to spread this request around. They can contact me directly at that address or at my [email protected] address via the above link. Please send all images to [email protected], though. The more people and images the better! I'd like as much of the herp community to supply images as is possible.

Thanks,
KJ Lodrigue, Jr.
 
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