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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the heads-up on this Adam, </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Although I can offer no advice on this topic as I have never heard of/used this tissue fixative which appears to ‘ tick all the boxes’. If anyone has any info. or experience in the use and efficacy of this and other fixative agents that have been developed as 10% formalin alternatives (such as Carolina fixative), I would be most interested to hear about them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>With all good wishes, Simon.<br><br>Simon Moore, MIScT, FLS, RScI, ACR<br>Conservator of Natural Sciences & Cutlery Historian,<br>www.natural-history-conservation.com </p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:acohen@austin.utexas.edu">Adam E. Cohen</a><br><b>Sent: </b>06 September 2016 13:38<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Nhcoll-l] ExCell Plus formalin alternative for larval fishes</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Adam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>-------------------------</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Adam E. Cohen<br>Ichthyology Collection Manager<br></span><span lang=EN-US><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">Biodiversity Collections</a> (Texas Natural History Collections), </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>University of Texas, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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><br>Phone: Cell: 512 970 2479 | Office: 512 471-8845 | Lab: 512 471-4823</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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=">TNHC Ichthyology</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=">Fishes of Texas</a></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>