Maintenance Software?

Hello,

Anyone out there have actual experience or recommendations for scorpion/tarantula maintenance.  My collection continues to grow and need some help on feeding, molts, and general maintenance.  Thanks in advance.

HLD

I started out using regular graph paper but have since made a spread sheet in microsoft excel.

I print it out and fill in feeding dates. Watering dates. Mating attempts. I left a little room at the bottom for extra notes and I keep all the pages together in 1 file. It has been very useful for tracking molts and scorpion age.

Basically what Yames says excel is a easy way to keep it documented

I keep photos of every major occurrences like mating and births as all of the photos has time stamps. Feeding and molts for 300+ scorpions is a bit too much for me to put into documents but when I started I also just used a spreadsheet.

I made a spreadsheet that includes name, date of acquisition, species, gender, molt dates, death dates, and instar. I have yet to add on births, length of pregnancies, and date sold/traded but none of those have happened yet.

Shadowfoot wrote:I keep photos of every major occurrences like mating and births as all of the photos has time stamps. Feeding and molts for 300+ scorpions is a bit too much for me to put into documents but when I started I also just used a spreadsheet.

Well I certainly don't have 300!   .  So, a spreadsheet probably will do the trick.  I thought I saw awhile ago some freeware to assist though?

I've seen free programs for keeping track of reptile maintenance but can't remember their names, if you stumble across one I'm sure it could be used for other animals as well.

Great suggestions have been given above. Especially so for "time stamps" using photos, mentioned by Shadowfoot.

You can sort those pictures into folders (according to scientific name), and in the different captures you wish to monitor for.. feeding.. molting.. mating... you name it. If possible, always try to make regular backups.

Somehow.. using spreadsheet or recording software does not seem to be a long term plan as your collection grow. Most of us will find this thought familiar..

"Ok.. this will be the last batch of scorps.. it should serve my scorp addiction for quite a while.."

And "BAM".. payment made for next batch