Support Keepers Guide

Keepers Guide is free to use, with every husbandry parameter sourced, dated, and reviewed on an annual refresh cycle. Keeping that up to date — tracking when a reputable source updates its guidance, expanding the species roster, and researching new problem and disease pages — takes ongoing research and writing time.

If Keepers Guide has been useful for your animal's care, you can support the site with a one-time donation ($5 minimum) below via Stripe's secure checkout. There's no recurring subscription and no account required — pick an amount, complete checkout, and you're done.

Donations support research time (verifying and refreshing sourced husbandry data), hosting costs, and expanding the species roster — they do not change any of the free content, which remains free regardless of whether you donate. Nothing on the site is paywalled behind a donation; the free species pages, problem guides, disease pillars, the diagnose tool, and every interactive calculator stay fully accessible either way.

Every husbandry parameter published across the site is sourced, dated, and reviewed on an annual refresh cycle — that ongoing verification work, not just the initial writing, is the main thing donations fund. A source that quietly updates its guidance (as has happened before with UVB recommendations and parrot diet advice) only gets caught and corrected if someone is actually checking.

Prefer a specific, tailored write-up instead of a general donation? The Custom Care Plan is a paid product that gets you a personalized, print-ready setup and care plan for your specific animal — genuinely different from a donation, and genuinely different from the free species pages.

Donations are processed securely via Stripe and are not tax-deductible — Keepers Guide is an independent project, not a registered charity. If you have questions about a donation, contact us at the address on the contact page.