orgainization........

Does anyone go over board with organizing everything about their snakes? Like pictures weight updates and feeding and shedding dates? I think Im alone on this but I have pictures of each snake the day I get them a few here and there and everytime they shed I update everything they each have their own file on photobucket, on my phone, on my laptop and in my filing cabinet......lol am I going a little far with it? I even have their next feeding date on a post it note on their enclosures and tubs. I record....sheds, feedings, tub cleanings, and vet checkups and when I update all of those they get their picture taken.

It's good to be organized! Every snake keeper should have some kind of organization system that works for them.

Lately I have been organizing myself a little better with certain things. I got a binder with some tabs, in this order: Weights-Ball Pythons, Weights-Other Snakes, Breeding, Clutches.

I basically only keep record of everyone's weights and do a weight checkup around once a month. Each snake has their own titled paper with their weights that follow on each line. I'll also write their weights, morph, what size mouse/rat they eat, and if they are proven on their tubs with dry erase marker. I never keep record of feedings and sheds, ONLY for the hatchlings under the "Clutches" category. And as for breeding, I write down every and all locks, signs, follicles, ovulations, and what have you.

I do admit I keep ALL the photos I ever take on Photobucket. I have reached over 1000 photos :D!

I do this with my own as well as the rescues I adopt out. Incase I have to give up an animal there is a record for them. I do have a different photosbucket folders for each snake two for each actually. One is for feeding pics...

I typically am OCD with records I record every meal cleaning temps and fresh water intervals and weights there is usually 2-5 entries a week per snake. OCD yes certainly, but it does help to identify trends and if there is a problem it can help to know what was happening when. I have photographs of every animal but as I work as a professional photographer I use a cataloguing software and the relevant information is written into the metadata.

I'm a member of the OCD club for sure.

I keep a sprial notebook for each snake. I document every feeding, every pooper, sheds, urates, urine. I document their weights - just about everything.

When I took my female normal to the vet last year because I thought her fast was lasting a bit too long - you should have seen the vets face when I pulled out my spiral notebook with every possible bit of information on this snake - he was very impressed and said he wished more people kept records like this.

So, you see - there is something to be said about being "OCD" with records.

:):)

oh yeah i also forgot about breedings lol i still have a file of the very first lock any of my snakes ever had :D
http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/...candclover.jpg