Creating ID Numbers - How-To?

[Eric Alan]

For those that do so, how does everyone go about assigning ID numbers to their collection? What things do you include in the ID and what format do you use? I know each person has their own system, and I'm not looking to re-invent the wheel, so I'm hoping to get an idea of what works well for everyone. Thanks!

Best regards,
Eric

[ElliotNess]

T-XXX...

T is my first initial and the XXX are the numbers as they come into my collection.

Babies bred by me will be T-X-X-XXX

Initial-Dam-Sire-total years hatchling (097 would the 97th baby of 2014)

Holdbacks will be assigned a primary number (T-XXX)

[dr del]

I changed mine this year.

It now goes Year:Morph:hatchling number of that morph

So lesser would be "14 L 07" and a black pastel would be "14 BP 04"

Reason being I forgot to keep a copy of the info from last year apart from on the babies feeding records which I then gave away with the snake.

[Alicia]

It now goes Year:Morph:hatchling number of that morph

So lesser would be "14 L 07" and a black pastel would be "14 BP 04"

This is basically what I do, only I include the Clutch ID rather than just the year. Clutch ID just consists of the parents and the year (in case there is a repeat pairing, I want to keep my clutches straight). I put the female's name first just because. An actual example would be: Cloe x Art 2012 Pied 1

Snakes that stay get names.

[ajmreptiles]

the way I do mine are shortened morph name followed by year of birth, sex, and then number order in which it was cataloged
for example my 2013 ghost male is GH13M-01

and I also track everything through reptile scan

[SnowShredder]

I'm only on my first clutch but this is what I did

Last two digits of the year clutch was laid; gender (M or F); clutch number (each clutch will get the number after the previous one like 1, 2, 3, 4 etc for forever); morph; unique number for that specific baby in that specific clutch.

So for my first clutch I had 5 babies and this is how their IDs go (on a flash drive each clutch will have a folder Clutch 1 clutch 2 etc, and each baby will have a folder inside the clutch folder labeled with their IDs)

14M01mojospider01
14F01spider02
14F01mojospider03
14F01mojospider04
14F01spider05

[Eric Alan]

Thanks for these so far - keep 'em coming!

[LLLReptile]

Like the first reply - I use my initials to designate things bred by me. No J in the front means not produced by me, or L if it is at work.

Next is an F or M if I know the gender.

At work, since everything here is first generation of what we've produced, it just gets a number based on which baby it was of the season. GRAN01, GRAN02, etc for the granite short tailed pythons, LMER01, LMER02 etc for the baby merauke blue tongues (things being held back get a 'complete' ID number, things being sold get a simple one just to denote who's who when being listed for sale).

At home, it'll go parents combined 2 digit number (= clutch number), then 1 and up. So JF-0102-01, JM-0102-02, and so on. Haven't decided yet how to do the numbers for babies of the second gen. JF/JM, maybe toss in a 2, 3, 4 and so on to denote generations?

Hope that helps

-Jen

[Freakie_frog]

Sex year morph # hatched -i.e M14PEWTER004
For hets I do this - M14H.ALBINO001 OR F13S.PAST_H.HYPO003

PH. = POS HET
H. = HET
S. = SUPER

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I do year, clutch, mutation , sex and number

For example if I have two kingpin in clutch 05 it will show like this

2014_Cl05_Kin_M1
2014_Cl05_Kin_M2