I think you have to decide what's important to you and keep records on that. This is my personal take on these things:


Eating: I have set feeding days for my particular groups of snakes and offer everyone food on their designated day. I only record the refusals, which are much fewer than the ones that eat of course. Way easier that way!

Poops: I don't record these at all, because in all the years I have been keeping snakes there have never really been any poop issues. If one of mine had a strange-looking one, though, I would probably record it with a description or photo.

Sheds: I only care about sheds on females that are breeding or going to be breeding, because it can help with knowing when they are ready to breed and / or when to expect them to lay eggs. On such females, I do record their shed dates, but the sheds from the rest of my snakes are pretty irrelevent in my opinion.

Weights: Another statistic that is not terribly important to me personally. I don't ever weigh myself, so I can't see doing it to my snakes without a good reason. As long as they are eating regularly and don't look too skinny, I don't fuss with weighing them regularly. It might be a good idea if you have one that doesn't seem to be thriving or if you are not sure whether a female is big enough to breed yet. Inquiring prospective buyers always seem to want to know what snakes weigh for some reason, so I will weigh them if someone asks me to.


So, basically what I am saying is that recording these things BY EXCEPTION is what keeps me from going crazy with all the details! Also I record my stuff that seems important on a Google Drive document, so I don't have to fuss with individual cards or have to worry about losing them. I know a lot of people record this kind of stuff on their iherp profiles, and that probably works fine if you have a smaller collection.......