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<p class="MsoNormal">We recently received a collection of larval fishes held in ExCell Plus. Nobody in our collection is familiar with this fixative and we’d rather not maintain these specimens in ExCell Plus long-term. We’d prefer to transfer them into the
same buffered 10% formalin solution we keep the rest of our larval fishes for maintenance reasons. Here is a link to information about ExCell Plus (http://www.americanmastertech.com/excell_plus.htm). It is billed as an alternative to 10% formalin and the
information here implies that specimens can be transferred to 10% formalin without a stepping process. Does anyone have experience with this fixative and/or have suggestions about transferring directly or stepping these into 10% formalin.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Adam E. Cohen<br>
Ichthyology Collection Manager<br>
</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__integrativebio.utexas.edu_about_collections&d=CwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=d-wprOScqcw78h_tfrLaeF8uXJzXZCG15kROZeZDgFQ&s=BqF3G-FTaci0_xaz4Rg-yjXG0P22qLAXuYTtwBWW9ug&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">Biodiversity Collections</span></a> (Texas Natural History Collections),
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">University of Texas,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">10100 Burnet Rd., PRC176/R4000<br>
Austin, Texas 78758-4445 U.S.A.<br>
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Phone: Cell: 512 970 2479 | Office: 512 471-8845 | Lab: 512 471-4823</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Websites:
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.utexas.edu_tmm_tnhc_fish_&d=CwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=d-wprOScqcw78h_tfrLaeF8uXJzXZCG15kROZeZDgFQ&s=eRp2PzK7N9kaFZ-EpbWxeqXE_e15Do0YRIxOwVXRt3I&e="><span style="color:#0563C1">TNHC Ichthyology</span></a> |
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.fishesoftexas.org_home&d=CwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=d-wprOScqcw78h_tfrLaeF8uXJzXZCG15kROZeZDgFQ&s=amiHlEjhaRnjmQI9P_p8pLgqfeeCUS8jrec6NapA8ig&e="><span style="color:#0563C1">Fishes of Texas</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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