Creating Nutritional Plans

Summary

Nutritional Plans are a way to assign food diets to individual animals, exhibits or even specific groups of animals (called a Mixed Group). The information that is entered in the Nutritional Plan is meant to represent each animal's (or exhibit's) target diet (or food base) for a given day, and does not necessarily match what is actually fed. The actual food amount fed each day is recorded in the Feed Center.

---

STEP-BY-STEP: How to Create Nutritional Plans for Aquarium/Terrestrial Facilities.

Applies to:

• Facility Management Members.
• Animal Husbandry Members (assigned to an aquarium/terrestrial facility)
• Members with Super User access to an aquarium facility.

---

To configure your facility's Nutritional Plans follow these steps:

1. Hover over the Animal Menu in your Facility.
2. Click on the "Nutritional Plans" sub-menu item.

3. Starting from the left and moving to the right, use the pull-down menus to filter the Nutritional Plan to a specific individual, collection or mixed group.  These filters include:
1. Area/Exhibit: select the area/exhibit (tank/habitat) of the individual or group you are creating a Nutritional Plan for.
2. Type:  select whether you are creating a plan for an Individual, Collection or a Mixed Group
3. Name: select the name of the Individual, Collection or Mixed Group (this list will be filtered depending on your selections in a and b above). 
4. Click the "Add New" button.

NOTE:  If you are Editing or Deleting an existing food assignment that has already been entered into the system, select the specific food from the list that appears following Step #3 and click on the "View/Edit Selected" button to modify, or the "Delete" button to remove that food type. 

TIP: If you make a change to a food item for a particular day, you can use the Nutritional Plan Helper to copy that day's plan to any other days of the week (or all days of the week).  This will save you time if a change you make to one day also applies to other days of the week.

5. Select a food type by clicking on the magnifying glass icon and then clicking on the "Select" button by the required food type.

NOTE:  Only food lots that have been received in the system will show up for selection in this step.  See our Knowledge Base article "Manage Inventory" or our video tutorial "Food Inventory Management" for more information.

6. Enter the quantity of that food type to be fed and select the unit of weight required for that food type.
7. If configured, you can select a specific Prep Code, Container code and/or Feed Method code to be associated with this specific Nutritional Plan. This is optional.  For more information on configuring these codes, click on the corresponding hyperlinks above.
8. Enter a target time that the selected food should be administered.
9. Click on the day(s) of the week that food type is fed.
10. Click the Apply button when complete.