The reptile page

The header sits at the top of all three tabs with basic information about the animal. Information that has not been entered will be omitted from this box.

The Dashboard tab holds the dials with current care information, a Quick Feed button, and the animal’s trends.

Each dial is one kind of care: Feeding, Cleaning, Weight and Shed, then one for each medication course that’s running. The ring fills as the due date comes closer. An overdue care item displays with a full ring and the amount of time overdue.

Select any dial to directly log an event in that category.

Quick Feed logs the animal’s usual meal in one step. More in Feedings and meals.

Still giving a medication?

When a repeating course is more than two of its gaps past due, a note under the dials asks whether you’re still giving it.

Rhythm, Growth and History

Under Quick Feed come the animal’s trends: Rhythm, then Growth, then History.

Rhythm

Rhythm puts everything you’ve logged on one line of time, a row for each kind of event, with today at the right. 3 mo, 12 mo and All set how much it shows. Select a mark to see what it was.

On a computer, 16 seconds

On a phone, 12 seconds

What each mark means The strip’s own key, under it, names the marks it’s showing.

Row	Mark
Feeding	A dot, bigger for a heavier meal, hollow when it wasn’t eaten. A regurgitation displays an arrow rising on the day the meal came back up.
Shed	A bar from the first sign to the finish; hollow for a bad shed
Cleaning	A tick, tall for a cleaning that resets the reminder
Weight and length	A diamond, hollow for a length
Medication	A cross
Mating	A ring
Defecation	A small dot
Any other category	A small square

Growth

Growth charts the animal’s weight over time, with a Weight / Length switch once it has lengths too. Meal size shows each day’s eaten meals versus the animal’s body weight.

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Point at an item, or at a number on the picture, to highlight it. Click to keep it lit.Tap an item, or a number on the picture, to highlight it.

1. 1y, 3y and All set the range
2. The latest weight
3. The Weight / Length switch
4. One day’s meals, as a proportion of the animal’s body weight
5. The typical line, the animal’s usual share

Every entry is shown in the animal’s current unit. Refusals and regurgitations don’t count toward Meal size.

History

History lists everything logged for the animal, newest first: Event History for one animal. Its filter buttons narrow it to one kind of event, and a meal of several foods is one row that opens to each food. Rows edit and delete as in Event History.

Handling isn’t an event, so it is not included. Last out, in the header, shows handling.

The Info tab holds everything recorded about the animal, in cards: Identity, Feeding and care, a card for its status (such as Quarantine with day 12 of 30), Origin and lineage and Notes. A field with no data will be omitted from the page.

Still blank

When an animal’s record holds little beyond its name, a Still blank card lists what’s missing. You can edit individual line items or select Open the whole form to see all options.

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Parents and young

Origin and lineage links the animal to its family. Select a Mother, a Father or one of the Offspring to open that animal’s Info tab.

• A parent typed by name, not picked from your collection, shows as text with Not in SnekLog
• A parent out of the collection keeps its link, with its status beside it
• Offspring lists every animal with this one as a parent, youngest first
• Clutch opens the clutch the animal hatched from. A parent gets a Clutches row listing its clutches

The Photos tab holds the animal’s photos, up to 10. One is its main photo, the picture SnekLog shows for the animal on Home, in the top bar, in the header and on Cage Cards. An animal without one shows its first letter instead.

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The main photo leads the tab. The Add photo button counts the photos, such as 5 of 10, and reads Limit reached at 10.

Adding a photo

Date taken starts on the date saved in the photo, or on today. An animal’s first photo becomes its main photo. An iPhone’s HEIC photos don’t open in most computer browsers, so a JPEG or PNG is preferred.

Viewing photos

Select a photo to open it full screen. Arrows, swipes or the arrow keys move between photos. Under each photo are its date, Primary on the main one, and the caption.

Changing a photo

The three dots in the viewer’s top bar open its menu.

Delete the main photo and the animal’s newest other photo takes over.

The + button holds the actions for this animal. On a computer it reads More actions. Log Handling sets Last out to the current time, and Clone reptile starts a new animal from a copy of this one. Reports prints the animal’s Sales Certificate or Animal Report or its Cage Card. Update and Delete reptile are under Add, update, clone or delete.

An Animal Report from here will first ask How much history should it carry? Choose Your defaults, or Everything on record to include the animal’s full history.

An animal’s record is a page of six cards: Basics, Housing, Feeding, Reminders, About the animal and Origin & lineage. Each card opens its own section. Adding, updating and cloning all use this page.

Adding an animal

To add many animals at once, use Import from a spreadsheet.

A new animal’s Feed every and Items per feeding default to 7 days and 1, and Full substrate change every defaults to 90 days. Weigh every is blank by default, which means no reminder. Leaving Weigh every or Full substrate change every blank, or entering 0, turns that reminder off, and changing either moves the due date immediately. Feed every cannot be left blank. Starting weight and Starting length, under About the animal, become the animal’s first weigh-in and length and set its units. These two fields appear only on a new animal. Selecting a Category fills in its defaults in any fields you haven’t typed in. Category defaults are set in Settings›, Reptile Categories.

More on names and statuses in Statuses, names and “in the collection”.

Updating an animal

Choose Update in the animal’s + menu. The same cards will open, and each section’s Save updates the animal. The Info tab’s Edit buttons open one section on its own.

Weights and lengths are not edited here. Log a weigh-in instead, as described in Weights and lengths.

Cloning an animal

Clone reptile starts a new animal from a copy of this one. Everything is filled in except the name and nickname. The latest weight and length become the new animal’s starting ones. Photos and events are not copied.

Deleting an animal

Delete reptile asks for confirmation, then removes the animal along with all of its events and photos. Its offspring and clutches will keep its name as text.

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Quick Actions is the page a Cage Card’s QR code opens, designed for a phone. Scan the code with your phone’s camera (SnekLog has no scanner of its own).

What Quick Actions shows

• The animal’s current needs, written out in full. Once its next shed is projected within a week, the page will also show Shed likely. Home does not show this
• Quick Feed: Ate or Refused logs the usual meal. After logging, Undo will replace the two buttons until you leave the page
• Log event: a button for each kind of event, each showing when one was last logged
• Out just now sets Last out to the current time
• Add a photo opens the Photos tab, and Open full page opens the animal’s Dashboard

Signed out, or the wrong account

1. You scan a Cage Card

   Your phone’s camera opens the card’s link in your browser

2. Signed in to SnekLog in that browser?

   If you are, the page will proceed

   If not

   Sign in

   The screen will say “Sign in to carry on to the card you scanned.”

   Then on to the next question

3. Is the animal in this account?

   If it is, the page will proceed

   If not

   Not in your collection

   If you’ve just signed in to a different account, switch and scan again

4. Quick Actions

   What the animal needs, Quick Feed and a button for each kind of event

If you are signed out, SnekLog will remember the card you scanned in that browser tab and open it after you sign in.

The page behind a code requires sign-in, so no one else who scans it can see your animals. To print cards, see Cage Cards.