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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px">I have several old glass containers housing fish, herps, inverts, etc. that are getting very low on fluid. I expect the containers are pretty brittle, as a gar with a giant lobster broke with almost no provocation
and spewed formalin all over: not a process I want to repeat. I don't have any idea what these specimens are stored in.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px">I have attached a few pix of fish and the screw down tops that appear to have parafilm or an ancient rubber around the lid; some of the smaller containers have what may be beeswax holding in a stopper.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px">Should I attempt to open and replace fluid? If so, how? What precautions?
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px">An earlier query 10 years or so ago said just to leave them alone, but maybe there is different advice now.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px">I'd appreciate some doable suggestion.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px">My thanks in advance, as always.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-TOP: 0px">Nancy Glover McCartney, PhD<br>
Curator of Zoology<br>
UA Collections Facility<br>
120 BIOMASS<br>
University of Arkansas<br>
2435 Hatch<br>
Fayetteville AR 72701<br>
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Phone: 479-575-4370<br>
Fax: 479-575-7464<br>
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