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A thought just occured to me this evening. I know people with one or two (or even a dozen) snakes tend to name all thier animals. I'm curious, do "serious" herpers name thier animals? I know some of the folks around here have 100's of animals? How do you identify your snakes?

I have about 80 snakes, 2 tokays and 4 leopard geckos in my collection, all of which have names. All of them are named after people in movies or band or sometimes just what sounds cool. It's also fun to have people guess where the names came from.

>> I know some of the folks around here have 100's of animals? How do you identify your snakes?

I assign each snake an inventory number that (in its most refined and recent version) incorporates the year it hatched. that way i can always track an animal--the inventory number goes on every cage card. It goes on the label that goes on a box used to incubate a clutch of eggs (in which case a hypothetical card might show 98017 X 02137 to represent two parents, one born in 98 and one in 02. I also put non-numeric "names" on the cards but they are actually descriptive labels, such as "anery het/hyp het/amel" and so forth. What i want is ifnormation i can use, presented in the simplest form possible. At my age, "Fred" on a cage card might not communicate to me all that i want to know at a glance.

terry