PRESERVING A CHAMELEON: How I do a Wet Specimen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- This past year, my beloved veiled chameleon, Verde, passed away. This is my process in which I preserve her and make a wet specimen.
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Wear a respirator when using formalin
Right??
I absolutely HATE the smell of formalin, for some reason that smell sticks in your nostrils for hours. It also gives me flashbacks to all of my BIO labs.
Its the smell of MEMORIES. Hahaha
@@MaxWildlifePhotographer Ichthyology Lab in particular...so many tiny white fish.
I always use a respirator so I haven’t smelled it before 😂😅
@Theodore Myles girlfriends hate this simple trick... Lol
Very nice I preserved one of my snakes like this!
I've done it a couple times. I really enjoy helping the animal gain another purpose in educating.
My baby passed away today (veiled cham) I don't wanna let him go because my heart's broke. I don't want to bury him . I just want to keep him forever I'm so broke.
You can freeze them until you’re ready to preserve them. I’m sorry about his passing.
Hey my poor chammy boy passed last night and I really want to preserve him. I see this was posted 3 years ago how does she look now? Is there anyway I can preserve him and his color? His skin is still very vibrant and bright
Naturally, there is some pigment loss at first. But everything still looks fantastic!
I’ve done a pig, a rattlesnake, and cobra, and some more stuff. It’s good to go!
I thought they needed to stay in a jar of formalin for a while to be properly preserved before going into a jar of isopropyl alcohol?
You are right, you need to soak them in formalin for a few months depending on the size. This guy didn’t wear any kind of mask or respirator either, so he is most likely very inexperienced.
Watching him dunk the syringe in the formalin with a singular glove that also isn’t the right one gave me the heebiejeebies😢
I wanted to preserve a bird like this. With the help of my science teacher. And everyone yelled at me and called me weird. And then said I killed it
Time to preserve the ones who called you weird
why are you not wearing any protection when handling formalin???
I saw you hit 2.5k when are you gonna announce the winner?
announced it on the facebook! I'll put them in my longview video
have an egg that is not broken but there is no bird inside of egg how can I preserve the egg?
I need to know about something, I will try this with my dead lizard but I will put in in epoxy. Do I must apply alcohol or formalin first ? Does lizards or frogs etc. rot in epoxy ? I watched videos of putting in resin without any solution and after six months no decaying whatsoever. Do you have any thoughts or experience about my situation ?
They will rot in epoxy. Epoxy and moisture don't go well together, anything going in it needs to be fully dry. This goes for plants and even more so for actual animals! If you want to preserve your lizard a wet specimen is your best option :) just wear more protection than shown in the video, 2 gloves, a respirator/mask for formalin and the safety glasses should be fully closed (the gasses are a risk)
can i use the isopropyl alcohol as the injector rather than formalin?
I wouldn't recommend it as it doesn't have the same longevity and will pull more pigment from the skin as time goes on.
Does it have to be a Mason jar? I have a glass jar that has a flip lid that claps in, will that work?
The key is to make sure no air can leak in. However you can do that reliably is g2g
Does the jar need to be glass or can it be plastic
Glass. The plastic ones are porous and chemical won’t hold or could react with it
Did it loose any color? Im trying to look in to if different types of alcohol give different resoults isopropanol/ethanol?
It did a little at first. My new recommendation is to do the formalin on the outside for 3 months before swapping to isopropyl alcohol.
@@MaxWildlifePhotographer How well did this specimine going directly to alcohol fare? Has it held up? Why did you change your process?
I want to preserve my Axolotl; best way?
I would imagine you can do the same thing. But by no means am I an expert on this subject. So I would ask an oddities page as well.
Max's View I just don’t know where I’m going to get the needles 😂🤦🏻♀️
@@missrenegadexoxo3507 Walgreens is where I got mine. I do recommend doing it with someone experienced the first time.
Do you just mix it together?
I’ll do formalin first, fill with with formalin the first 4 months, then dump it into a container to reuse for another specimen and fill it with the 70% alcohol
@@MaxWildlifePhotographer so I have to wait four months before I can use it for my reptile
@@NathansWildLife No sir! You can use the formalin on the inside and out. But after four months, I'll drain the outside formalin and reuse it to inject into another reptile and fill the original jar with the alcohol.
You’re going in the formal =formalin. No “a” sound.
Thank you. This is one of those things I read and not say. So it helps!
Wtf am I watching at 3am ffs
Well hey, thanks for stopping by.
I hope it kept you entertained. If not, I’ve got rattlesnake relocations on the channel!
@@MaxWildlifePhotographer i didnt mean it like that i was soo late for work this morning, I couldn't get up because I was lost in a youtube wormhole!
@@I_am_BiG_Al TH-cam will do that to you... 😂
Why the stupid clown music??
I would rather bury my pet..that looks creepy lol
+human indeed it is very creepy, but it’s good for Halloween parties (for teens and adults for obvious reasons) and science projects, they can look really cool
@@monicasanfratello3841 In my opinion absolutely not it's disrespectful to use as a Halloween decoration. Honestly this is less weird than burying a pet for me; I couldn't bare to lose mine this way you still have a piece of them with you. I do understand it isn't for everyone though.