Animal Informational Plaques - What do people think of the idea?

[TylototritonGuy]

Hey everyone,

For years I have been making for myself these little Information Plaques for all my animal enclosures and to me it gives any Tank a nice touch, but people started asking me where I got them/How I made them etc. After a while started making them for people for free, until I stopped due to people kind of taking advantage of a free service... (Basically asking me to make up to 20 Animal species plaques, sometimes as many as 40 from scratch by a certain deadline)

Anyway, thinking about starting this up again but might charge a very small fee depending how I feel about it and if I stick to emailing or actually doing them on card and laminating them.

Either way I am in the middle of making them before I start showing them off but I just wanted to see what you guys think of the Idea? I will get some photos up of my own ones I have or old ones

Thank you guys,

TyloDude

 

[TylototritonGuy]

Right, here are a few photos of old plaques I have made for myself. The information is a lot better and a lot more updated on most of them

They can all be personalised if you want something unique to anyone else's but they all contain the following information as a basic starter:

• Common Name
• Latin Name
• Origin
• Habitat
• Life Expectancy
• Diet
• Conservation
• Map Highlighting its Origin
• Toxic or any other H&S Sign (Just for show really)
• Endangerment Chart
• Breeding

here they are:

Thank you for looking, please let me know what you think as I might even end up giving these away if I'm honest! Within reason, don't expect 30 plaques that havent been done to be made in only a few days and get ratty when its taken a week

 

[Sean90]

Think it's a good idea makes it like your private collection. My previous college done something similar but not as detailed.

 

[AngieD]

My boyfriend has designed signs for some of his reptiles.
I like yor signs too, they look very professional

 

[Wildebeestking]

I might have to start doing this with mine.

 

[FrogEyes]

They're a good idea. A major drug store here does all kinds of photo products, and I use their plastic photo plaques to make stone-like award plaques. Photo image of polished stone as a background for desk-top publishing, saved as high resolution jpg, printed to hard plastic.

For the items above, I would just make some minor corrections before distributing [mainly, have a second person "edit" to help catch errors].

 

[animal lova]

there awsome! if i was you i'd definitly charge money.

 

[TylototritonGuy]

Thank you all for the feed back!!

these are a few years old however the design is still the same maybe a few extra headings add

I might charge for however much it costs to produce them and then add on a tiny amount just for profit but shall work that all out soon But I don't like asking money for things I would just be happy giving them away or just the template haha!