Reptile Care Groups: Organize by Rack, Room, or Stack

Care groups let you organize your animals the way you actually keep them, so you can look after a whole rack at once instead of one animal at a time. A group can be a plain group, a rack, or a cage stack.

Care groups vs. breeding groups

These are for husbandry — organizing and scheduling care. They’re separate from breeding groups, which organize a season’s pairings. An animal can be in both.

Creating a group

1. Open Care Groups from the menu.
2. Tap New group.
3. Give it a name, pick a color, and choose the type:
   • Group — a simple collection of animals, no slots.
   • Rack — numbered slots laid out as a grid of columns × rows (or a flat total). Slots are labelled A1, A2, B1, and so on.
   • Cage stack — a set of numbered slots for a stack of enclosures.
4. Tap Create group.

You’re taken straight into the new group, with the Add animals picker open so you can fill it right away.

Adding animals

From a group, tap Add animals to pick from your collection. You can:

• Search by name, ID, species, or trait.
• Select several at once, then tap Add animals.
• Scan to add — scan enclosure QR codes to select animals hands-free; keep scanning to add several in a row, then add them all at once. See QR scanner & multi-scan.
• On a rack or cage stack, give each animal a slot as you add it (or let Scutely place them for you).

If a rack is full, Scutely adds what fits into the free slots and leaves the rest unplaced — you can drop them into slots later.

Inside a group

Open a group to see everything in it:

• Every animal with its photo, sex, and traits.
• For a rack or stack, a visual slot map — drag an animal from one slot to another to rearrange the rack the way it actually sits.
• Any care schedules set on the group.
• A Husbandry view with each animal’s latest temperature reading.

An animal’s slot also shows on its own profile — tap it there to jump to the rack map with that animal highlighted.

Scheduling care for a group

The point of a group is to care for everything in it together. Set a care schedule once on the group and every animal in it follows along, so you’re not repeating yourself for a whole rack. See Scheduling & the To-Do area.

Editing & removing

• Edit a group to change its name, color, or rack size.
• Remove an animal from a group without deleting the animal.
• Deleting a group leaves its animals untouched — it only removes the grouping.

Related

• Scheduling & the To-Do area
• Care reminders
• Auto-organize & moving an old schedule over