What are these circle things used for?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb1Ix...eature=g-all-u if you pause at 20 seconds youll see little circles dangling from the tubs anyone know what these are for?

looks like some kind of ID tag they use for breeding purposes..just their way of keeping track of which male is where and when.

It's a way of organizing his snakes. I don't know exactely what he uses his to mark but when you got that many snakes you have to be able to keep track of all of them. Whether it be morph, gender, dates for various things, f/t or live feeder, etc.

They are probably a type of record keeping. I do something similar. Rather than keeping books or computer programs, records are kept on the racks themselves. It could be the pairings, feeding records or something similar.

Thanks for the responses everyone, figured it marked something just wanted to know if it was some universal snake breeder thing. I'm just going with a cage card system

They are key tags. They make it easy (atleast for me) to see if a male is with a female and what male is in there. It looked like his said Albino 3. Heres mine.
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I use the same thing with all my snakes...my tags have numbers and I keep track of what is the tub with a book....as the male moves from tub to tub the tag follows him...I use round paper sticky dots that go on the outside of the females tub with the males number on it so I dont cross the male in the wrong tub....
I use the same number system when I list babies for sale so I know who the parents are...for example male 20 Albino breeds female 27 het Albino...then when the babies hatch I keep track by using the males number first and if it was the first snake I sexed and it was a female it would be listed as 2027F1 and if the second one was a male then its 2027M2.
Seams easier then writing the morph on the tag because I several different females that are the same morph.
Travis
Lair of Dragons

I use them too. You can get them at any office supply store. The small binder clips also. Very cheap and effective. I write the gender and morph on one side, the year and any other info I may need on the other. When selling older snakes that have a tag on their tub (I often just write hatchling info in dry erase marker on hatchling tubs) I send the clip with the snake to the new owner.

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I also have an organizer book that I write info on snakes I've purchased from others. Species, gender, age, morph, breeder, price paid, date purchased, etc.. For clutches I write lay date, hatch date, gender, morph, etc in my book as well as some of that info on a current calendar hanging in the snake room.


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