Feedings

Feeding is the most-logged action in the app, so the workflow is designed to take seconds.

Three ways to log a feeding

1. From the animal page

Go to an animal → 🍽️ Feed. The form pre-selects today's date, the species' first food, and the animal's last amount.

2. From the QR code (one-tap)

Scan the printed QR code with your phone. ScaleVault opens directly to the prefilled feeding form for that animal. One tap on Confirm and you're done. See QR codes & quick actions.

3. From the enclosure (multi-animal feed)

Scan the enclosure QR or open the enclosure page → 🍽️ Feed enclosure. This logs a feeding for every animal in the enclosure in one go — useful for racks where every animal eats the same thing on the same night.

Per-animal feed defaults

Each animal can override its feed defaults under the animal form:

• Quick-feed food — overrides the species default for the QR one-tap path.
• Quick-feed amount — overrides the default of 1.
• Disable quick feed — when checked, the QR code still opens the full feed form (no one-tap "Confirm"). Useful for animals on experimental diets where you don't want anyone autopiloting a meal.

What you can log

• Food item — text or pick from the species list.
• Amount — usually count of items (1 rat, 3 crickets) or grams.
• Ate? — checkbox. Refusals matter, log them.
• Notes — anything notable.
• Date — defaults to today; back-date as needed.

Charts

Feedings show up on the animal timeline and in monthly bar charts on the dashboard.