[Nhcoll-l] Preservation issues

[Marshall Boyd]

Thanks everyone. The snake is a Black Racer snake, about 3-4 feet long. We
injected using 10% buffered Formalin following John Simmons guide (love
your book by the way) and after injection partially submerged but with
formalin soaked paper towels for 4 days (over the weekend). The specimen
still seems much more malleable and floppy than previous specimens. It was
a DOR with several sections rather crunched from a car but was tissued and
fixed June 8 (within 2 days of discovery) and moved to 20% EtOH June 13 but
was not moved to 40% EtOH upon discovery it wasn’t fixed as much as we were
hoping June 16.
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