How do you "name" your hatchlings?

I've seen websites, or fauna, where someone is selling 3 of the same morphs, and they have each snake labeled. Like, one is TSF1-11, another is TSF2-11 and another is TSM1-11. How do they ( or you ) come up with these "names" to identify each hatchling?

God I really hope this makes sense to someone........I know it does in my head! Lmao

I'm not sure about the TS part, I'm assuming that has something to do with the particular morph that the hatchling is, but the F or M is for male or female, and the first number is just a number for numbering them like female 1, female 2, then the numbers after the dash are for the year they were born. Hope this helps a little. :D

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Originally Posted by jtomb1510

I'm not sure about the TS part, I'm assuming that has something to do with the particular morph that the hatchling is, but the F or M is for male or female, and the first number is just a number for numbering them like female 1, female 2, then the numbers after the dash are for the year they were born. Hope this helps a little. :D

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Yea those three I mentioned I made up myself. That does help me, though. Thank you!

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I name them things like "AriXChanticoLessMale245"

So, the sire, the dam, the morph, and the gender, and a unique number.

I try to go really simple to avoid confusion.
Morph.Gender.Number
ex:
Alb.F.001 = Albino Female 001
BlkPas.M.024 = Black Pastel Male 024
PasLes.F.123 = Pastel Lesser Female 123

Although recently I've been debating whether or not I should include hatch year in there somewhere...

I label them: clutch#-year-male/female#-morph abbreviated. Example - C2-11-F3-PSTL (Clutch 2 - 2011 - Female #3 - Pastel).

I also usually name them. One year a clutch was named after Family Guy characters. Helps me keep track of them in my head better.

I do year-Clutch or breeder-sex and number-what it is
IE 09BRDM1HAlbino or 12C1F3Mojave
EDIT
If I dont know what year it was hatched I label the year with a U

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Originally Posted by satomi325

I try to go really simple to avoid confusion.
Morph.Gender.Number
ex:
Alb.F.001 = Albino Female 001
BlkPas.M.024 = Black Pastel Male 024
PasLes.F.123 = Pastel Lesser Female 123

Although recently I've been debating whether or not I should include hatch year in there somewhere...

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This one makes the most sense to me personally. To add the year you could just add it onto the end of it with another period or hyphen. Like:
Alb.F.001.11 or Alb.F.001-11
I'll probably use something like this when i hopefully start breeding next year :)

My lables are pretty easy to understand. Here is a ID# for one of my snakes.

BP_2011_S_F_01 - That simply means a Ball Python, hatched in 2011, morph is Spider, its a female and 01 just means if I were to have more than one 2011 spider in my collection, the ID#s would go up. BP_2011_S_F_02, BP_2011_S_F_03 and so on.

This is how I do my system.

YearGender-Morph-Number

So my first female pastel was a 2010. Her ID is:

10F-PAST-01

My second female pastel I got in 2010 but she is an 08. Her ID is:

08F-PAST-02

I hatched out 3 Butter Spider females last season, their ID's are:

11F-BTRSP-01
11F-BTRSP-02
11F-BTRSP-03

All the other information are on their feeding cards. This system works very well for me. :)

Awesome! Thank you all so much for helping me out with this. I obviously need some sort of labeling system this year since I have numerous breeders ( and hopefully numerous clutches! )
I'm also looking into applying this to my leos as well. With my leos that hatched yesterday, I labeled them ATF1-12 and ATF2-12, meaning Aptor Tremper Female 1 and Aptor Tremper F 2, ending in year ( pairing, temp sexed female and number ).
Hopefully this works for me with them, and I will be figuring out how I will do my bps.

Thanks again everyone!

Mine is year, morph, sex, #. It gets tricky with my hets, double hets, and possibles. With that it's year, het (%) morph, sex, #.

Example:
12AlbinoM1 would be my first male albino of the 2012 year.
12AlbinoM2 would be my second male albino of the 2012 year.
...and so on.

12Het(100%)AlbinoF1 would be my first 100% het albino female of the 2012 year.

The one that are up for sales go like this

Year Clutch Morph Sex

---> 2012Cl01_Hyp_M1 That would be Clutch one of 2012 Male Hypo # 1

Now the one I hold back are ID as followed

Morph Year Sex

Spin_2009F1 ----> 2009 Female Spinner

Regardless of what you chose the important is that it makes sense to YOU ;)