anyone knows how are these fish specimens made? Answered

Hi
member kowitz from flickr posted some pictures from the tokyo make meeting of what appear to be transparent colored fish specimens inside glass bottles.
Anyone knows the name or how a re they made?
I can't find anything anywhere...

www.flickr.com/photos/kowitz/4124470088/in/photostream/

thanks

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lowercase

11 years ago

Thanks everyone!
Well, I seems too complicated or expensive to even try it out.
I think it's better to fly to tokyo instead.

Doctor What

11 years ago

Those are fantastic looking!

Tool Using Animal

11 years ago

Intriguing.

It took some looking but the technique is called "Clearing and Staining".

Doesn't look to complex, just tedious.

http://gobiidae.com/methods/method_clear_and_stain.htm

Tool Using Animal

Reply 11 years ago

I looked further into it, you can purchase all the supplies from Fisher scientific and Carolina Biological, the problem is some of the stains are $10 a gram and have minimum quantities

Goodhart

11 years ago

I don't know how THEY were done, but one way can be found here.

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