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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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Question regarding how one of my dragons stands.

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Hello,

I have a question. I have this awesome Hypo Super Citrus female. She is absolutely stunning with her color. Going to be a full body, saturated lemon yellow as an adult. She is still a small dragon, maybe around 11" or so. (NOT the one in my avatar.. different one).

This girl, however, also does some very strange things, and so I have come here to hopefully get an answer from those who are way more experienced.

Please note that this isn't something that has just happened recently, she has been this way since I got her about 3 months or so ago.

Sometimes, when she stands, she will stand not with her feet on the ground like a normal dragon, but she will stand on her "wrists", with her feet folded behind.

And when I pick her up, she doesn't do like a normal dragon and try to grab onto my hand and hold on, she kinda crosses/tucks her arms, sorta like a human would do. She makes absolutely no effort to hold on.
And then when I go to put her back in the cage, I'll put her back in and she'll just lay there, with her arms still "crossed"...
after about 5 minutes though, she'll get up and just run off and bask like any other normal beardie. Also, during handling and shortly after being let back into her cage, she doesn't move almost any of her body.. it's like she is stiff as can be. No quick looking around like many dragons, no licking.. nothing..

She also does the "crossed arms" thing when I put her into the bath. I literally have to pull her arms out to make her stand in the bath, because at first she won't do it on her own. But then she's fine after that.

She eats and runs around like normal while in the cage. But for some reason, when I pick her up or put her back into the cage, she's always doing something weird with her arms or acting stiff as a rock.

Any ideas? :shrug01:
 
Possible calcium deficiency with improper bone growth. Maybe up her calcium and get her out in the sun every day for a half hour,see if that helps.
 
angie.h said:
Possible calcium deficiency with improper bone growth. Maybe up her calcium and get her out in the sun every day for a half hour,see if that helps.
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Yeah that was the first thing that I thought. I'll definitely be getting this girl out into the sun tomorrow!

She eats her calcium dusted greens and insects... I changed the UVB bulb in her cage a week or so ago, and lowered it a little. That should help a lot too :thumbsup:

Thanks Angie!

Dan
 
You're welcome Dan...hope for the best. Many people don't realize that exposure to the sun [ when done safely ] sometimes gets the very quickest results for a dragon that's developing calcium deficiency. IF that's what we have here.
 
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