Know what the room costs to keep, rack by rack.

For staffed reptile rooms, ambassador animals, and exotic rescues.

Latigo Health is a cost-intelligence and operations tool for any business whose business is animals, including staffed reptile rooms, ambassador-animal programs, and exotic rescues: each feed a keeper checks off from the room's own stock posts its supply cost to that animal's own ledger.

A rack's thawed rats or a tortoise's greens post the same way, and a rack kept as one record reads its cost per head.

Latigo Health is $50 a month for the whole room after 90 days free, with no per-seat fees, however many keepers.

Read what changed, then finish this morning’s round below.

90 days free, then $50 a month. No platform fee on card payments.

Engraving of a tortoise
The tortoise from The Hare and the Tortoise. Etched by Samuel Howitt, 1811.

In the animal room

Any phone

Morning round

Hollow Oak · Tue 29 Sep
  1. Ball pythons Rack A
    Feed, 12 small rats, thawed
    Done
  2. Ember Viv 2
    Breakfast, 12 medium dubia
    Done

    Breakfast: was 8 medium now 12 medium

    Changed by Theo, yesterday at 3:15 pm

    Seen
  3. Clementine Tortoise table
    Breakfast, 2 cups mixed greens
    Done
  4. Sage Aviary
    Breakfast, 1 scoop pellets
    Done
Atlas Viv 5
Feed, 1 medium rabbit, thawed, two keepers
Witnessed by L. Grant Witnessed

Morning finished. 5 chores, 5 ledger lines.

No prices on this side. The feed side never shows a cost.

The prep room

On hand
Supplies After 7:31 am
128 rats Rats
468 roaches Dubia
8 rabbits Rabbits
46 cups Greens
63 scoops Pellets

FIFO. Oldest batch first, at the price you paid for that batch.

The ledger

Finance
Per animal Hollow Oak Nature Center demo data
  1. Tue 7:31 · Aviary
    Sage · Pellets · 1 scoop $0.38
    Posted
  2. Tue 7:24 · Tortoise table
    Clementine · Greens · 2 cups $0.84
    Posted
  3. Tue 7:16 · witnessed L. Grant
    Atlas · Rabbit · 1 medium $15.95
    Posted
  4. Tue 7:10 · Viv 2
    Ember · Dubia · 12 medium $1.08
    Posted
  5. Tue 7:02 · Rack A
    Ball pythons · Rats · 12 small $21.48
    Posted
  1. Mon 28 Sep · 4:45 pm
    Sage · Pellets · 1 scoop $0.38
    Posted
  2. Mon 28 Sep · 4:30 pm
    Ember · Dubia · 12 medium $1.08
    Posted
September so far · Facility
$1,312.85
This morning +$39.73

One tap. One transaction per chore. 140 → 128 rats, $21.48 posted, nothing typed.

What did Clementine cost this quarter?

Clementine is a young sulcata on the tortoise table, a resident with no fee to set against her. Slide to your guess at what her greens, hay, and calcium came to since 1 July, with the UVB bulb her lamp went through in August.

Greens · hay · calcium · UVB bulb
$80.00

Most people guess.

Show me the real number

Clementine · Hollow Oak Nature Center · this quarter

The real number.

$139.40
Supply cost 4 lines
  • Greens $76.44
  • Hay $19.80
  • Calcium $1.17
  • UVB bulb $41.99

Your guess was $59.40 low.

That number came from 182 checked-off tasks. Nobody typed it.

More than a quarter of that was the bulb.

this quarter ledger · Clementine

Posted
Supply cost
$139.40
Per day
$1.53
Tasks
182

Every line traces to a task, a batch, and a person. Hollow Oak Nature Center demo data.

Atlas · Viv 5 · this quarter

Now Atlas, the Burmese python.

$72.75 feed cost

  • Rabbits $63.80
  • Chicken $8.95

Five feeds in a quarter, and two keepers at each one.

Hollow Oak Nature Center demo data

Latigo Health for exotics rooms

Price
$50 a month for the whole room, however many animals. One price, no per-seat fees.
Free trial
The first 90 days are free.
Devices
Any phone, tablet, or computer, as a web app in the browser. Check-offs, notes, health records, and photos made without signal wait on the device and sync when the signal is back.
What it tracks
The run sheet, stock, supply cost per animal (the feed, bedding, and medication used), and the ledger.
Who sees what
The account owner sees the money, and managers what the owner allows; keepers check off tasks and see the records, never a cost.
Cost per animal and per rack
Each feed from your stock posts to that animal's ledger. A rack kept as one record reads its cost per head.
The RED feed
A task marked RED, like a large constrictor's feed, needs a second member of the team named as witness before it counts as done.
Readings
A routine can ask for a number, like a basking temperature, with a safe range; a reading outside it raises an alert. Readings are typed in, not from sensors.
Does not do
Genetics or pedigrees, clutch tracking, marketplace listings, or permit paperwork.
A good fit when
you run a staffed room and want each animal's supply cost from the feeds your team already logs.
Not a fit when
you breed for morphs and need genetics calculators, pedigrees, or clutch tracking.

Built for racks, vivs, and the big snakes

Feed days differ, prey sizes differ, and some feeds need two keepers in the room.

A rack, one record

Twelve ball pythons, one line on the run sheet. Keep a rack as one record with a headcount. Its feeds post to the rack, and its cost reads per head at the current headcount. Or keep each snake on its own record: a rack fed the same prey closes with one tap, Mark 12 feeds done.

Ball pythons · per head this quarter

$23.27

The two-keeper feed

The big snake waits for a second name. Mark a task RED, like a large constrictor's feed, and it cannot be checked off as done until a second member of your team is named as witness. Both names stay on the task.

Atlas Viv 5 · this morning
Rabbit · thawed, from the freezer
$15.95
Given by · A. Moss
7:16
Witness · L. Grant
7:16

Readings out of range

A cold basking spot raises an alert. Add a reading to a routine, like the basking spot's temperature with its safe range. A keeper types the number at the check-off, and one outside the range raises an alert at once. It is a reading taken by hand, not a sensor.

Reading "Basking spot" is outside its safe range.

Ember · Viv 2 · 88°F, safe 95 to 110°F

Critical alert · on the check-off

The run sheet walks your room

Rack, vivs, tortoise table, aviary, in the order you walk them. What each animal eats from your stock posts to that animal's own ledger, like Clementine's greens on the tortoise table.

Where other tools stop

Most reptile software is built for breeders: genetics, pedigrees, clutches. Some apps count feeder stock down as you feed. Here the cost is computed from what was actually fed and posted to that animal's own ledger; we have not found another tool that does both.

Hollow Oak Nature Center, room plan RACK AVIVSTORTOISE TABLEAVIARY Clementine

Clementine · Greens · 2 cups · 48 → 46 cups

$0.84 Posted

Questions keepers ask

What software do reptile rooms with staff use to track feeding costs?

If the job is feeding cost per animal, Latigo Health does it from the feeds your keepers check off: each one takes the prey or produce from your stock and posts its cost to that animal's own ledger. In the demo, Clementine's quarter came to $139.40, and Atlas's feed to $72.75. It is not breeding software: there are no genetics calculators or pedigrees.

How do I work out what each animal costs to keep per quarter?

Add up what each animal ate and used at what you paid for it; Latigo Health does that as the feeds are checked off, oldest stock first, so the quarter adds itself up. A supply counts too when it is a stock item used on that animal's task: in the demo, Clementine's $41.99 UVB bulb was more than a quarter of her $139.40. The cost is supplies, not staff time or overhead.

Can a big snake's feed need two keepers?

Yes. Mark the task RED in Latigo Health, like Atlas's rabbit, and it cannot be checked off as done until a second member of your team is named as witness. Both names stay on the task.

Can keepers do the run sheet without seeing the money?

Yes. Add them to your team in Latigo Health as staff: they check off tasks and see the records, never a cost. The account owner sees the money; managers see what the owner allows.

Can our exotics vet see the records?

Yes, at no charge. Invite your vet to Latigo Health as a guest, limited to the animals you share. A vet visit packet prints an animal's recent history.

Does Latigo Health track genetics, clutches, or permits?

Not yet. There are no genetics calculators or pedigrees, no clutch or hatchling tracking, no marketplace listings, and no permit paperwork. It keeps the care and what it costs.

Will Latigo Health work in a room with no signal?

Yes. It is made for a phone first. Check-offs, notes, health records, and photos made without signal wait on the phone and sync when it returns; a feed's cost posts once, on the server.

What does Latigo Health cost?

90 days free, then $50 a month, with no added payment fees. One price for the whole room, however many keepers and animals, with no per-seat fees.

$50 a month

Start your 90-day free trial. Then $50 a month. No platform fee on card payments.

  • Run sheets in walk order, on any phone.
  • FIFO stock with a days-left forecast.
  • A supply ledger per animal, exportable to CSV.
  • Guest access for visiting vets, sitters, and other pros at no charge.

Built for boarding barns, kennels, rescues, and exotics rooms. One price, any room.

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