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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.

Possible fungus on my Koi Swordtails, please help

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I have a trio of Koi Swordtails and a male and a female might be infected with a fungus. The female has a white patch on her side, kind of peeling and sort of fuzzy, and the male has white almost covering his lips. They didn't have it yesterday and the other female has no signs. Everything was fine until I got feeder fish, comets, for my African Clawed Frogand Bichir.

Usually I feed Fatass, the frog's name, flakes, bloodworms frozen and freeze dried, and shrimp. Fatass and Metal Snake recently taken to eating the swordtails so I bought the feeder fish. Fatass and Metal Snake ate 6 of the 9 swordtails I had including about half the fry one of the swordtails had. I thought getting feeder fish would keep the swordtails safe. I also have 2 puffers, 8 ball my figure 8, and Spot my spotted. They don't show any signs of being sick or infected. My pictus cat Peanut Butter is fine along with White Snake my rope fish, Chan my dragon goby, and Lollipop my pleco. I also have 2 smaller African Clawed Frogs, Lucky and Red, and they also appear fine and they don't go after the fish. I have a planted 55 gallon aquarium with 2 med-large pieces of driftwood. I have a over the tank filter rated and running for a tank the size of 75 gallons. I had live snails in there except the puffers ate them all. I also have Ghost shrimp that have survived being fed out, about 2 dozen. I also have about 25 + lbs of rocks to create hiding places for Chan, Metal Snake, and White Snake. There are still about half a dozen swordtail fry swimming about and growing.

Only those 2 fish seem to have a problem. They are currently spending most if not all of their time within 3 inches of the surface swimming around. I can't be sure if 8 Ball or Spot didn't bite either fish because the white patch is rather oval like I have seen when Spot bit 8 Ball. All the feeder fish seem fine and they were added in the last week. I can post a pic as soon as my batteries try. I was about to do a water change and vacuum the gravel today which is how I noticed the white patches.

I have no problem removing my frogs to treat the tank but I just don't know what to treat it with since I am not sure what is wrong the fish. I don't want to put added stress on the fish if they are sick by using the wrong meds.

Thank you in advance!
 
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