Hey everyone, Wonder how I never stumbled on this thread before? Well I too have suffered some losses in the past year. Sad when our fish dies. As for everyone that wonders what everyone keeps their dead fish for!!! Maybe they have another hobby/passion like mine. I articulate fish skeletons for my home museum. I place them in taxonomic order according to their classification. I hope to one day work for a museum/zoo/aquarium, and work on fish anatomy exclusively. Working on freshwater biology first. I currently am working on several large catfish skeletons, and have several more in the works. I have a total of about 400 different species of animals. Skulls, skeletons, bones, teeth, ect. I also have an insect collection. Just locals on the insects, but fish and other animals from all over the world. I have been doing this since I was 12 years old. So about 13 years now. I will post some pics on here when I get home from work for everyone to look at. I think I posted some on here before I'll try to find them and add them to this post. I have thought for sometime about opening a thread about fish anatomy to show everyone the inner workings of their beloved fish. If anyone is interested in donating fish for me to do the skeletons of please feel free to pm me. I mostly do catfish, but will do any species, so long as it is not too small. There are hundreds of bones in most fish skulls alone. I completely disarticulate the skulls/skeletons, clean, degrease, whiten, and re-articulated them in a life-like manner. Hope everyone likes the pics. The ones I am putting up are of a marble catfish, and a rainbow trout. Leiarius longibarbus, and Onrhyncos mykiss, excuse me if I misspelled the rainbow's scientific name.
p.s. I have many more pics that are better than these, just I am at work, and don't have access to my files. These are from another forum I post on.
Yeah never again. So here are the female jd's before and after.
One of my small arowana (13" or so)lept to his death sometime today
