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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.

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The Nuclears and Fire/Mojos just get lighter and brighter each shed. One of the handfull of combos that looks far better as an adult then a baby. I'm amazed everytime my butter fire sheds, the differanced in him is stunning everytime.
 
It was 3.5 - Quite good odds all around I must admit.

Still waiting on someone to duplicate this (me included, the parents are at it as we speak :D ). I'd bet cash money that the sire is a Disco.
 
Another shed, another pic :D




My female Spotnose Xiu just shed too, so I thought I'd take a pic of them together.

 
Thx guys, yeah, she's pretty amazing. And to think I might have more like her staring at me from their eggs in just over three months has got me pretty excited :D
 
She shed again, and since it was a nice day, took pics on the porch out of the direct sunlight.







 
Another shed, another batch of pics of Halle, probably the last I'll post of her until she gets to breeding size.





 
'This ain't no disco' - Talking Heads.

Well, I have no problem with admitting I'm wrong, and as embarrassed as I am to admit it, it seems this isn't a Disco ball after all. After finally seeing pics(s) of a clean Disco/Mojave posted this year (which is close, but no banana), and three years of trying different pairings, it looks like this is something new after all.

My friend Juan Urbieta as been working with a couple of the offspring I produced from this combination. He's hatched out some weird stuff too. He spoke a few breeders that have been in the business for some time, and they say they've never seen these before.

Casey Hulse (my best man) has bred with one of the original babies as well, and he was able to reproduce the original look sans the ringers.

I've taken pics of every critter in this breeding project and loaded them in a folder. I've also created a excel spreadsheet showing the pairings as well. I can't attach the excel spreadsheet (invalid file type), so you'd have to download to view.

I invite you to take a look at them and offer input if you have any. Juan will be posting pics of his babies as well.

http://www.bluewaterreptiles.com/Family%20Tree/

Here's a current pic of Halle.
 

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