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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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Uneaten bugs

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Just curious, how does everyone "treat" the leftover bugs? I'll start:

Mealworms - if escaped from food bowl, I'll throw them out. If they remained in the food bowl, I'll recycle them to the mealworm bin.
Supers and crickets - cut off their heads with cuticle scissors before putting them in the rubbish bin.
Silkworms - toss them in the rubbish bin without killing, as cutting them in halves seem very messy; they can't live long anyway after dusting.

I'll have some roaches ready to feed off in a month or so, I think I'll also cut them in halves before throwing them out. So, how do you do it?

:kill:
 
I can feed a lot of things to my tiger salamander, who is right now incredibly obese. I can't feed him for like 4 days to a week after he has a large silkie, which is a problem because I have about six or seven right now that are medium large...
 
So long as the gecko in question is out of quarentine, I "re-use" the bugs.
 
I do not re feed any bug, if a mealie gets out its gone, crickets are allowed to live for an hour after being fed, then they are shop vac'd out. Call me paranoid but I don't want eat sloppy seconds so I don't expect my critters to either.

Even with non escaped mealies or supers, every other day, even with gutload in the dish and supplements and a slice of fruit, the worms, gutload etc are all thrown out and a new clean dish is put it.
 
Oh! Wrong direction! I'm actually after the process before you throw them out. e.g. leftover cricket - do you squash it? drown it? To me, cutting their heads off with scissors seems more convenient...etc. And are there different treatments to different insect types?
 
Oh! Wrong direction! I'm actually after the process before you throw them out. e.g. leftover cricket - do you squash it? drown it? To me, cutting their heads off with scissors seems more convenient...etc. And are there different treatments to different insect types?
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Ok, I see. Well, generally I just throw them in the trashcan. I guess if you are worried about them climbing out you can flush them down the toilet.
 
Just dont let any silk or hornworms outside. LOL

The crickets I just squish when I use them, the others just go in the trash. Never really worried about the mealies going to the city dump, im sure they have a blast there :raspberry
 
I usually flush the worms and let the crickets go. I figured that if the gladiator (cricket) can survive captivity and survive almost certain death by being eaten by a fearsome gecko, he deserves to be set free.
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I put whatever's left out in the bird feeder. Makes the wild birds real happy,especially in the cold months
 
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