iHerp love it or hate it?

[Dave763]

Back it up. Go to your animals tracking page. Click edit,select all,edit,copy.Open notepad or word or open office,ect. paste. Overwrite the files once a week with updated info. Keep a copy on your hard drive and a copy on a usb stick or whatever external device you have.
Better safe than sorry

[jglass38]

I registered yesterday to check it out, however I don’t see the point (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.

Rock on! Degei is the best...

I also don't think I need the people who run the site knowing what's in my collection. I might have some super secret projects going on here!

[Rapture]

I've tried Deigi and some other record keeping software and nothing was as simple as the "batch track a group" option on this site. My record keeping takes literally about 1.5 minutes for about 50 animals. Maybe I wasn't using Deigi right... but the iherp software is awesome.

As far as the people who run it... it's one guy, named Aaron, a real nice guy who is really into chondros... I don't think you'd have to worry much about super secret ball projects. I get your point, just throwing that out there.

[Damon Theis]

Just to chime in on a couple notes here.
The owner of iHerp and I have talked shop in depth numerous times (actually on a telephone... <gasp>) and have a good relationship with each other. To my knowledge, he has no intention of ever charging for the tracking features that are on the site at this time. Also, as far as the security, rest assured that he is meticulous about the security of the site and an all around stand up guy.
Reguarding the comment about bulk tracking in Degei, it has been available for several years, however, animals are not "grouped", you just have to put a check mark on the ones you want to select for the "bulk" activity and click ok, to post it to all of the selected animals. Here is the screen: http://www.eyehit.com/degeihelp/advanced/bulk.htm

Lastly, as noted, whatever you use, BACK UP YOUR DATA REGULARLY! and that doesn't just mean to file on your computer, that means every so often you should burn a cd of it or use a flash drive if you want to be secure.

[Rapture]

Thanks Damon for that screenshot. I like the iherp batch tracking groups because it remembers what each snake ate at the last feeding, and usually I am feeding the same size to the same snake so I just have to click one button to record a whole group.

[Damon Theis]

No problem Diana, for the record, Degei remembers the last prey item fed also (always has), and if you wanted to feed all animals, at once, the last thing they ate, you could do that by asigning them to a "master rack" and then feeding that rack. I think a rack feed takes a couple clicks. There is however a limit of 998 animals per rack...

[stangs13]

There is however a limit of 998 animals per rack...

Holly cow!!

Could you imagine feeding 998 snakes every week?!?!

[Damon Theis]

I'd rather not imagine cleaning 998 animals every week...

[stangs13]

I'd rather not imagine cleaning 998 animals every week...

Or cleaning the rat cages that supply the food for your 998 snakes!!!

[Nate]

What? 998 maximum? Seems a tad small don't ya think