New Project! rapheal catfish skull!

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Jack Dempsey
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so earlier today i was looking in my tank and my spotted rapheal catfish died. i was about to flush him down the toilet but then i had an idea! my idea was to keep his skull! so what i did was i put him into a bucket, boiled some hot water and pour in the hot water into the bucket with my spotted rapheal catfish in it. i let it sit for about 10 minutes then started picking it with a plastic tong and some shish cabob sticks. got the guts and its flesh off. so what i am left with now is the skull because the tail bone fell off. after cleaned it i boiled some more water so i can get some of the tough skin off of him. so i repeated what i did again with the boiled water and some more skin came off. right now im letting it sit and dry by a ant hole so the ants would eat the last bits off the skull. i remember seeing a thread where a guy did it with his bichir i think. if anyone can find me that thread it will be greatly appreciated. but anyways...any suggestions to what i should do? will i have to glue some parts back or will it just stick there and not fall off?

ill get some picks up A.S.A.P when my girlfriend come back with my camera! :(
 
update: ants are really liking the taste of the left overs on the skull. :D
 
G.O.A.T.;3840931; said:
post pics

yepp i will tomorrow. its pretty dark outside right now so ill take pictures tomorrow. :(
 
Pics? I'm very interested, especially after my cat project.
 
Allright it's tomorrow, and by the time you read it it might even be the next day...this sounds neat lets see the pics...:shark:
Rav
 
very cool! I've seen a couple similar threads in the bichir forum as well. Here's one from King-eL...

King-eL said:
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Full thread: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288180

Looking forward to seeing your results :cheers:
 
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