[Nhcoll-l] Tail Shark

[Fabian Neisskenwirth]

I would recommend you to dry it more in some oven (at 40°C) for a few more days, to be sure it's completely dry. But the smell is not going away.

If you would rather prefer to make a wet conservation, there is a good method I'm working on now to rehydrate dried out material. Afterwards the tail should be conserved in Ethanol. So there is no smell.
If this is a solution, don't bother to ask about the rehydration, even though it’s a long process (maybe 3 month at least). 


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Von: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] Im Auftrag von Sergio Montagud
Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. April 2018 11:40
An: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Betreff: [Nhcoll-l] Tail Shark


We had received a dry tail of a thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus). People who give it dried the tail outdoors, only protected by sunlight and hanging from the tip of the tail. The preservation is quite good, but the base still contains some tissues and muscles that look dry, but smell a lot.  Could someone give us recommendations for preservation? For the moment, we have no intention to expose it.

Thanks in advance


Sergio


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Sergio Montagud Alario
Museu [UV] Història Natural
Universitat de València
e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es
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