iHerp love it or hate it?

So im interested to see who uses iHerp i personally love it and think it is better than using software for managing your herp collection.

Holy crap I love iherp...

I'm not particularly interested in keeping details of my collection online but it looks cool for people with a couple snakes that are strictly pets.

I signed up yesterday. I like it, and will continue to use it. I also have note cards as well. Kinda like a backup.

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Originally Posted by jglass38

I'm not particularly interested in keeping details of my collection online but it looks cool for people with a couple snakes that are strictly pets.

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You can make part of your collection, or your whole collection private... or hide only feeding records, or you can not use any pics or descriptions at all, just ID#'s... I hear what your saying, but there are ways to access the software and not display your collection. It's seriously made my record keeping SO much easier. I've thanked D several times for turning me on to it...

I shipped out two babies yesterday, I just printed their record page with pic ID, hatch date, weight, etc... and then I printed their feeding records... Totally EZ, and it looked 100X better than my hand written cards!

I registered yesterday to check it out, however I don’t see the point :confused: (except if you want to share your data with others)

If you only want to keep data on your snake(s) you are better of with Degei in my opinion.

I gotta agree with Deborah on this. It looks like a good way get a little community going and being able to share what's going on with your animals and breeding efforts. I just cringe at the thought of keeping all my records on there and somewhere down the line the site closes down or starts charging for access to pay for all the bandwidth being used.

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Originally Posted by m00kfu

I just cringe at the thought of keeping all my records on there and somewhere down the line the site closes down or starts charging for access to pay for all the bandwidth being used.

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Thats the only thing that worries me. Thats why I still have my home made card.

I like it. Computer in the snake room makes record keeping easy. If it gos down that will suck...no pun intended.
I linked the baby pics on my website to the iherp page for that individual, so if anyone is interested in a particular snake they can see the tracking for it.

Yeah, it wouldn't be TOO bad losing that data for just a couple of snakes -- but just the sheer amount of time lost for a mid to large sized collection. To be fair, the same thing could happen with Degei if you aren't meticulous about your backups. If your computer happens to crash and you don't have your backups stored in another location, it'll be the same situation.