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Corn Charts

TWGarland

TWGarland

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I bought my corn from a petshop in the UK and they gave me my snakes entire eating/shedding record (as i bought it as a 3-4 month old hatchling).

I was able to guestimate its age by its first pinky and knew when to expect his next shed. Another plus to this was i could see just how healthy the corns in the shop were, and pick one that had never missed a meal.

I thought this was a wicked idea of something to get when buying your corn. I have kept its eating/shedding chart upto date and now have a whole year of my corns life recorded.

Is this a common thing? to get/keep these sorts of charts? anyone else do this too? or do i just have too much time on my hands? :)
 
I keep records, yeah, but when I bought Ishy from PetCo, she didn't come with any charts.
 
Stuff For You To Try!

You'd go crazy with that Herp Care software...

http://www.thegeckocam.com/hcs/what/index.php

Only one of my snakes came from the previous owner with a feeding record, but now I keep feeding, shedding, weight, and length records on Herp Care.

This is really cool, too: (snake measurer- it's so accurate and fun!)

http://www.serpwidgets.com/Apps/apps.html

Just make sure you start out with a small enough picture- I use something like 800x600.

I've started putting a tape measure on a dinner plate, then setting the snake on the plate and quickly snapping a picture. Easier than just corralling them on the floor.

Nanci
 
I use the Herp Care software that Nanci posted. It works great and does very detailed priting when you need to send off babys.

Ryan
 
I just buy a notebook from the dollar store for each animal. I then record as they are eating. I also note shed dates and how they fed. On the green tree pythons I also record defication as they go infrequently. All my babies are sold with complete feed/shed records.
 
I always write on the calendar when I feed who, and when someone goes blue then sheds. Back up for the software.

Nanci
 
It's really nice when breeders keep records of when their snakes eat and shed, but a lot of times breeders simply don't have the time or don't think it's necessary. I know when i visited my local reptile show, a lot of the people selling corns simply tell you the snake has shed or eatten X amount of time, but they don't have exact records for you. And others bought them wholesale from other breeders, so they can't give you records.

Right now I only have 2 snakes and I keep records in an excel file for their feedings, sheds, and length.
 
(Ran across this again whle I was looking for links to more software)

Herp Care exports to Excel.

But it lost all my December records. It was a night that my laptop rebooted itself. Luckily, I had everything written on the calendar, but still...Why just December? I also had a weird screw up a couple months ago trying to add a new specimen, and lost all Maizey's and Choco's records for months. Prpobably user error that time. I don't exactly trust it now, though. Has anyone else ever had herp Care lose data?

Now I don't leave it open- I close it down after recording something.

Nanci
 
That's why I use a notebook!! Can't lose data and as long as you keep the paperwork with the enclosure, you won't lose anything.
 
Well, I'm backing up everything on a calendar now, including weights.

I wish there was a Palm version of a herp record software...

Nanci
 
I built a tracking system in Excel, and it's very easy for me to use (hey, I built it the way I wanted it). I periodically back it up elsewhere. I enter events on my log sheet for the year which feeds a stats sheet that calculates totals, etc.. Each year's stats sheet results are summarized in an overall stats sheet. I also keep other sheets, such as genetics, and breeding projects, etc..
 

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I track my snakes in Excel as well. Here is a screenshot of mine, has basic info, and I put the date and action taken on what day etc, along with a current photo, each snake has their own worksheet. The tabs below coded by color (pink) for female, (blue) for male.

Works for me, I like it, I back it up onto a CD once a month, just in case (I started that after someone lost all her data on their computer :santa: )
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I use Excel as well, for both my breeders/keepers & hatchlings I produce.

I had a discussion on Fauna about providing records to buyers at shows, and unless I have a laptop to print them out while at the show, it really is a waist of paper (if you consider the amount of hatchlings a breeder would bring to shows). However, another option would be to offer the records via email if the buyer wished to have them.
 

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I keep records on everyone but only give my buyers the last feeding and last shed.

I use a piece of paper with each snake listed down the left and blanks listed across the top.

I write the date in the blanks and mark in the squares next to each snake with a -, +, or 0 depending on whether it refused, ate, or wasn't fed. I also write next to the symbol what the food was P=pinkie, PF=peach fuzzy, f=fuzzy H=hopper, W=weanling, A=adult, B=brained, S=scented. If I fed more than one prey, I will mark ++ or whatever is appropriate. There is room in each square to write shed or opaque or any other comments.

So it would kinda look like this:

11/10 11/17
06101 -P +P(s)

06102 +P +P

06103 +P +P
opaq shed
 
I do an Excel spreadsheet for all the snakes I'm keeping. Pretty simple, I list what the snake was offered and 'X' a designated column if it refused. I also have a column for shed, Nutribac/Vitamin and general comments. I weigh each at the end of each month and put it in the general comments. I also list when I do a complete substrate change since I suffer from CRS.

With hatchling I plan to move out, I put a post-it on each shoebox; I list meal and shed dates. All snakes are offered food on the same day. If they eat I date the post-it with a blue sharpie, if they refuse, I date it with a red sharpie.
 
Calander

I've been using an old fashioned day calendar on the wall for the last 6-7 months. I write a “M” if he ate a mouse (pinky of course.) I write a “W” if I changed his water. I also take note when he sheds. I also record when I fully change his substrate, but don’t note day-to-day spot cleans. This has been working so far – but id like something computerized. I guess Ill try out HCS. I want something that will record his length / weight and output it to a line chart. :) I guess excel will do that.
 
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