Rate My Fish Tank Forum Index - General Community Discussion - Freeze drying your favorite fish. - Reply
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I'm admittedly a bit weird and one thing that proves it is that I have a box in my freezer with all my old fish in it, which have either died of old age, jumping out of the tank, or by disease. I rarely have my fish die, but when I do I immediately put them in the freezer where they eventually become bone dry and light as a feather. They're still beautiful! I wonder if anyone else does this, and I wonder if I could preserve them somehow, varnish them, and mount them? They all still have their bright colors and since all the water is now evaporated from their frozen bodies I don't see why I couldn't now have them stay that way as long as I varnish and seal their bodies so bugs can't get into them. Anybody else preserve their fish before? |
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ok thats definately different - -but i wouldn't say wierd, lol - - -just make sure the lil lady doesn't make some really pretty stir fry some night {sorry that was wrong}
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I think the chemistry term is sublimation, where water goes from a solid directly to a gas. I've had the fish for years and they're pretty dry. I mean they are light as paper. They dried so slowely that though they're a little bit raisin like, but not much. At this point I don't think they can lose any more moisture. Maybe I'll put them in a jar with some dehydrating substance and get the last wee bit of water, and then varnish. Then I can make a mobile, or put them on mounts with wire like you said. |
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yup |
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hahaha... wierdo... lol...
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No, but it's amazing what they look like, so very realistic. I had 2 needle nosed gars that died a week from each other from some bacterial infection, and when I put them together in the freezer they looked as if they were together in an embrace of some sort. Unfortunately one fell out of the freezer and I lost it somewhere. Maybe the cat ate it. Maybe when my GF comes over I'll take pics and show you guys. |
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hahaha...
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Aweee I'm glad i found this post. Now i feel welcome among the ratemyfishtank posters! you brightened my day :D thanks guys you rock! |
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That reminds me of my sister. I once opened up her freezer and found her dead kittens frozen in ziploc bags. I asked her what is up with that and she said she didn't have the time to bury them so she stuck them in the freezer until a later time. Talk about gross. It would be cool if you glassed your fish somehow and framed them or something. |
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Yea. I'll save them and put instructions in my will that they be buried in my tomb when I die! |
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I new it, your all crazy! Have you ever kept one of them out of the freezer to see if it strarts to rot? |
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Not yet! I'm not into rotten fish. Like I said I'm going to put them into a dehydrating medium to get all the very last water out and then I'll coat them in something. |
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peter what about the eye's ? wont they shrivel up? |
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this is why i stick to digital pictures, lol. |
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The eyes look pretty cool. The eye is caved in, but the inner part is still sticking out. When I get a camera again I'll take a picture of a few of them. |
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