Preserving lost baby BPs

[gsarchie]

Well, it a scientific profession, I think it would be a good idea. Hell, contact the herpetology departments in any colleges if they would like to acquire preserved ball pythons. I bet they'd go for it.


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They very likely may not. When I was at KU I would occasionally help out in the herp lab, which consited of the largest neo-tropical herp collection in the world, and they had more than enough to go around. While some specimens are loaned out for display purposes many are leter dissected to determine things like stomach contents, sex of the animal, etc. I don't see any herp lab needing any preserved ball pythons.

Also, specimens that are preserved in fluid never keep their color. The specimens at the herp lab consist of shelves and shelves of snakes, frogs, turtles, lizards, etc., and they are all a dull green, to brown, to black, and the colors that they had in life are long gone. If you want something pretty you would be best to preserve it in some kind of acrylic or have it taken to a taxidermist. Skeletal articulation is an option however it is not cheap. I believe a company called skulls unlimited will do it for you for a few hundred dollars.

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http://www.skullsunlimited.com/recor...nt.php?id=6942

This, to me, seems the best and cheapest way to preserve color. I have emailed these guys about skeletal articulation but not this. I would email them and ask what it would cost (assuming that they would even be willing to do it), the worst they can do is say that they won't do it, but I assume that for the right price, they would.