• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Ok here is a weird question.

John E Dove

John E Dove

Seeker of knowledge
Joined
Sep 24, 2003
Messages
1,103
Reaction score
33
Points
0
Age
88
Location
Colorado
I did not know where else to post this so I guess this is the place.

Does anyone have any idea on how to preserve reptile eggs after they hatch and/or slugs for later display?

I know this may sound weird but I was reading recently of someone who received the egg their snake hatched out of with their snake. My wife & I loved the idea and since we hope to have our internet sales going this year we would like to incorporate this idea into our internet sales but have no idea on how to preserve the eggs so they will not crush or deteriorate.

The slugs I would just like to preserve for use in educational programs but want them be like they are when laid so the kids et al can get a real feel what a snakes egg really is.

Any ideas?

John E Dove
 
The slugs can be preserved by fixing them in a 10% formalin solution, or possibly just 95% ethyl alcohol. I would use the formalin myself, then after a few weeks switch them over to a 75% alcohol solution. I haven't had the best luck using just alcohol to preserve full voucher specimens, but it might work for the slugs. There are a few websites that detail how to prepare voucher specimens, and these may help further. Here is one that I found - Preserving Amphibians.

As for the egg shells, I have heard of someone using expanding foam to fill in the empty egg shells, then writting some info on the egg once it is cured. Other than that, you can just clean them out a little, let them dry, then put them in a small baggy for storage. Egg shells don't contain any tissue to break down over time, so there is nothing to preserve.
 
I've seen folks that have done the egg shell filled with foam thing, and then I think they coated it with some sort of shellac or something. Turned out pretty cool. :)
 
Back
Top