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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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What is hatching in this clutch?

Cheryl Marchek AKA JM

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So~ I've not been keeping up with the morphs lately~ and have no idea what is hatching here. I'm pretty excited about them~ the only Unexpected hatches I get are when I breed a known het to a morph and get all normals (it's happened more than once~ always an unpleasant surprise). So this time I bred a known het to a visual and.....
Purplish babies are hatching?! Wow~ what are those??
So let me tell you the history of the parents of this clutch and maybe some of you more knowledgeable can figure out what I've got hatching.

So in Feb 2007 I purchased a 4 year old het piebald female from a young man who had purchased her originally from Tony Hurt of Snake evolutions. I got a picture ID of the female when she was a neonate from Tony Hurt and proceeded with the purchase. Days after I purchased her Tony Hurts genetics where questioned on the BOI and I thought I'd been ripped off again. So I was disappointed~ but not one to give up easily~ I sent her off on a breeding loan to Heather (user name Ladyohh on fauna). Heather produced two pieds on her when bred to her pied male! Woot~ my first visual! Two females~ Heather kept one and she sent me the other along with the adult females I had sent to her. Fast forward a few years that female pied Heather produced was bred my original het pied male (purchased from Kahl in 2002) and in 2011 she produced a pied male that I kept. Again fast forward~ this year 2013 I bred the original Het Pied female that was produced by Tony Hurt in 2003 to her grandson who is a visual pied and they produced a clutch of 7 eggs laid on 8-22-13. I was expecting those eggs to begin pipping around 10-17 and for there to be either 50% pieds in there or all normal hets (it's happened before). So I was surprised and disappointed when I saw them pipping on 10-10. It's not that the incubator is too hot as another clutch of albinos laid on 8-14 was also pipping on 10-10 just when I expected them to. For some reason these babies just pipped a week early and two of them shot right out of the eggs before I even realized they were pipping and died (didn't absorb their yolk sacs). Lost a normal and a pied. So I'm disappointed but when I pull the bodies out I noticed......

Two of the eggs are pipping something different! At this point another normal and another pied have hatched and they look fat so I'm hoping they have absorbed their yolks despite being early~ I left them in the egg container and I'm trying not to disturb the last two as I'd like them to stay in the egg absorbing the yolk as long as possible... But I did snap a couple pics~ would you have a look at those heads? Whats popping out? Whatever it is I'm guessing it's a hidden het off the original Het pied female produced by Tony Hurt in 2003.

Any guesses whats up?
 

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:iagree: Look like Hypo Pieds, even better if they are Caramel Pieds IMO
 
Awesome!
They almost look like mystic potions, but that really wouldn't make sense. Are they out of the eggs yet? ...... How about now? ........ Now?
Dangit! Hurry up! lol
 
yep~ they are out of the eggs....and I should have known better than to suspect something good was happening. Thats just not my luck with the Ball Pythons.... seriously this may be the straw that makes me finally give up. I am just so very frustrated. I believe they are caramel pieds and both are kinked.
 

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look like caramel pieds to me as well. But awwww, I am so sorry they are kinked! Hey, now you know something is up and that might give you motivation to try again? Maybe try outcrossing to unrelated caramel pied genetics?
 
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