How To preserve Dead Fish

chesterthehero

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I know a guy who skulls bucks buy burying the head in a sandbox, then cover it with chicken wire so nothing can dig it up and just waiting till the creepy crawlies find it and do what they do best. Should work for a fish too. just dig up and find someone good with superglue and jigsaw puzzles.
 

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here ya go
i havent imbeded it in acrylic yet tho :irked:
but in this thread it says how i cleaned my fish and what im going to use to seal it
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98541
a guy narcius or something like that knows how to do it a different way also.
he might have posted a link in the above link

"my way did keep some skin i just didnt keep it"
 

beblondie

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use 70% alcohol for preservation (or at least maintenance of perservation) of our specimens...this is diluted from the 95% stuff we keep on hand in the lab. the actual preservation/fixation, however, is done with formaldehyde. if the fish is larger than just a few inches then i cut the belly so the chemical can enter into the insides of the fish and preserve everything. the fish stays in the form. solution for a couple days. if its a gar or bichir, a fish that has rigid bony scales, then i take the fish out after 2-3 days and just let it air dry. the fish is now dry preserved.
 

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pm necrocanis, I think he does this.
 

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