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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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I have a female that I got a few months back, from a reputable breeder, who had got her from someone else. As far as I know she has never been with a male. She's only 40.5 grams, so I doubt she's been bred. I believe she is close to a year old, due to the breeder had plans for her this year, but their project went into a different direction. However she has eggs, not just ovulating, white eggs, so there's a shell developed on them. This has me concerned over her growth. I'm not going to breed her this year, but if she lays eggs this year and it stunts her growth I was wonder how she would be for a breeder.

Does anyone have females that just never got big, say 50-60 grams, and were bred? How did the do?
 
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I have a female that was bred at 52g, when I put my male into the wrong bin(I had my labels mixed up) and she is an unbelievable breeder. 6 clutches this season so far!! The crazy thing is she was only with the male once at the beginning of January and I guess she knew that was it or something so she's got a hell of a sperm management program going on!!lol I think she may have another one in her too!! She is also at 55g now after 6 clutches and eats like a champ!!

Cheers
Drew
 
So far with my Leos Im under the impression, if they are not fertilized, the eggs will most likely be reabsorbed.

If she is a year and only 40g. I doubt she would grow past 50g.
 
One of the people I helped out along the way had a 44 gram female who "accidentally" (I honestly don't know if it was intentional or not on the part of the owner) became gravid. I helped them through the whole ordeal and she ended up laying eight eggs total, six of which survived. I certainly would not recommend this, as it took a lot out of the female and she had some serious recovering to do, but she did bounce back. So, it is possible although again, I wouldn't recommend it, nor would I try it with my own geckos. I like my females to be at least 55-60 grams before I even introduce them to the males.
 
Lets say she lays this clutch. I want to keep her from laying anymore. Should I move her to another room, where there aren't any horn dogs around rattling their tails and getting her all worked up over nothing and shorten the day light? (I don't want to cool her down or shorten the day light too much, I want to get her nice and fat, for when I'm ready to breed her next year.) Let's say a shorten her day light, won't she ovulate as soon as I lengthen it again? (That's how I jump started my second year breeders) It's almost like a catch 22, I don't want her to waste her reserves on eggs cause I want her to put on the weight and I don't want it to stunt her. However if I mock winter she may slow down on eating (picky eater already), then if I mock spring she starts eating and ovulating again. AAARRRGGGG

Jackie, Thank you for that information. I'm not talking about (Pebbles) the female LVPA I got from you. She is happy and content , not ovulating. She finally has some carrot showing up in her tail too. :) I can't wait till she is ready next year.

BTW, Jackie, how are you doing? Feeling better? Docs doing a good job taking care of you? I hope to see you back to working with your babies again soon.
 
Felicia,

I'm doing ok considering...Thanks for asking :) It's still a lot of waiting...Waiting for appointments and test scheduling and results...I'll be sure to let you know when I know more. We haven't yet found the cause of the problems but they're still working on it. Thanks for the update on Pebbles! Glad to hear she's doing well. I always liked her personality!
 
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