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Add Your First Reptile to Scutely

This page walks you through adding your first animal. By the end you’ll have a profile in your collection that you can start logging care against.

Add an animal

The Create Animal Profile screen with a primary photo and Basic Information: Animal ID, Date of Birth, name, and species.
  1. Go to the Library tab.
  2. Tap the + button in the top right.
  3. Choose Create One to fill out the full profile yourself.
  4. Enter the basics under Basic Information:
    • Animal ID — your identifier for the animal (e.g. BP.26.1), plus an optional name and date of birth.
    • Species — search or browse; Scutely supports hundreds of species.
  5. Add a photo if you have one. The first photo becomes the profile image (marked Primary).
  6. Tap Create Profile.

The animal now has a profile in your Library.

What’s on the form

The rest of the create form is optional — you can fill in as much or as little as you like now and add the rest later.

The animal form showing species, sex, length and weight, Traits with selected genetics pills, and Origin options.
  • Sex — male, female, or unknown.
  • Length & weight — a starting measurement, which becomes the first point on the animal’s growth charts.
  • Traits — tap Add / Edit Traits to pick morphs, or Add custom trait for your own. Selected genetics show as color-coded pills.
  • Origin — Self Produced, Domestically Produced, or Wild Caught.
The Feeding Information section with current food item, feeder status, supplements, and number of servings.

Under Feeding Information, set what this animal eats:

  • Current food item — the prey it’s on (e.g. a rat pup), which the feeding log and pick list use.
  • Feeder status — live, frozen-thawed, pre-killed, dried, or other.
  • Supplements and number of servings — optional.

The feeding schedule itself lives in Care & Scheduling, not here.

A few things worth doing next

  • Set collection defaults. If you mostly keep one species, set it as your default so new animals pre-fill. See Collection defaults.
  • Add more photos. Open the animal and add a few. They show in a gallery on the profile and public page.
  • Print a QR code. Stick it on the enclosure so you can scan straight to this animal later. See QR scanner & multi-scan.

Next

Now log your first event.