Preserving lost baby BPs

[Wyldrose]

I know the craft store Michaels sells a pour-on type of acrylic sealer, I wonder if that would work?

I had one baby cornsnake die as it hatched I fed it to my savannah monitor. I don't breed larger snakes, just the corns. I recently was given a king snake who my friends couldnt get eating(he eats fine for me) so he's a back up for DIE's as well. So the ones that don't make it become feeders. I would rather see them help another animal thrive then rot. I may pic up some of that sealer and try to preserve one next season, that is if something hatches kinked, deformed or DIE.

[Navy]

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.

I had no idea, thank you!

[Valentine Pirate]

I think the jarred specimen idea is awesome! And if you want to do taxidermy as well what's stopping you from doing both?

Before my ex room mate "lost" (sold/got rid of) my storage boxes, I had a collection of skulls, articulated roadkill skeletons, and dried things in jars (no wet specimens). It may not appeal to a lot of people, but there is definitely a market there for you to utilize. Just recently I was thinking about starting a wet specimen collection As stated before, morph or not it'll lose it's color, but I don't see why you shouldn't do it

[Navy]

I think the jarred specimen idea is awesome! And if you want to do taxidermy as well what's stopping you from doing both?

Before my ex room mate "lost" (sold/got rid of) my storage boxes, I had a collection of skulls, articulated roadkill skeletons, and dried things in jars (no wet specimens). It may not appeal to a lot of people, but there is definitely a market there for you to utilize. Just recently I was thinking about starting a wet specimen collection As stated before, morph or not it'll lose it's color, but I don't see why you shouldn't do it

you might like this blog, then.
He has a collect of all kinds of neat things
http://rexyoung.tumblr.com/

[Medusas Lair Herp]

you can preserve them with some embalming supplies from McKensie taxidermy. We have done that for my husbands biology class.