Tub Tags!

Since my collection has grown quite a bit, I have found I have a hard time remembering exactly who is in which tub. So I made some tags for my tubs!

Every snake has a code name on the front (morph,#,gender,year). On the back is the snakes name, if it has one! I still have quite a few to name!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8...bf416421_b.jpg

These tags are kinda cool. They are chalkboard coated and if I use a chalkboard marker the text washes off and I can write something different on it!


Do you guys have tags on your tubs? If so, post a picture! If not, how do you keep track of who is where?

I have QR codes on each of my cages that I use with my database (take a picture with my phone and it pulls up that snakes records)

I also have magnets with labels on them for identification (I use magnets so it is easy to relabel a cage if I move snakes around)

Where did you find those tags? There are pretty awesome and a great idea!!

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

I have QR codes on each of my cages that I use with my database (take a picture with my phone and it pulls up that snakes records)

I also have magnets with labels on them for identification (I use magnets so it is easy to relabel a cage if I move snakes around)

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I like the QR code idea! Could I see a picture of that when you get a chance? Might be worth making QR code stickers for my tags or something.

Where do you stick the magnets to?

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Originally Posted by ktaylor89

Where did you find those tags? There are pretty awesome and a great idea!!

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I found them at Michaels in the bridal area.. I think the tags are supposed to be some kind of party or bridal shower thing. Who knows! They were on sale :P Bet the lady at the cash register had no clue what I would really be using them for haha!

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

I have QR codes on each of my cages that I use with my database (take a picture with my phone and it pulls up that snakes records)

I also have magnets with labels on them for identification (I use magnets so it is easy to relabel a cage if I move snakes around)

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Love the idea of the QR codes...... :-)

I also jsut put tags on my tubs!

I knew who was in which tub but my mother didnt and insisted I put tags on them lol.

But anyways here is a pic on how I did mine.

http://i1172.photobucket.com/albums/.../andromeda.png


Top is the name.

Q2 = She was born in the second quarter of the year

2012 = the year she was born

F = Sex

Clown obvious is morph.

Thats how my tags are set up.

Not very high tech, but I just take a little piece of blue painters tape, write the snake's name, sex, morph and hatch year with a sharpie, and stick it to the front of the tub.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

I have QR codes on each of my cages that I use with my database (take a picture with my phone and it pulls up that snakes records)

I also have magnets with labels on them for identification (I use magnets so it is easy to relabel a cage if I move snakes around)

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I am very interested on this! What phone program do you use?

I love your handles on the front, btw. May have to steal this idea when I build my rack :gj:

I'll see if I can get some pictures.

What I do is I buy magnet strips that have adhesive on the back and stick them to the cage. Then get another magnet (of the opposite polarity) and put my label on it. So the magnets stick together.

I use FileMaker Pro for my custom database... the version of FileMaker Pro that I am using doesn't have native support for QR codes (but I'm fairly certain that the newest version does) so I actually wrote an app for my iPhone to access the database off my server and assign a QR code to each animal. If there is enough interest I can look into getting the app onto the app store.

I'm sure that there are other ways to incorporate QR codes. I already had the FileMaker Pro database set up before I started using QR codes so I just went with it.