Anesthetizing lumbricids

[Judith A. Fournier]

Ethanol, drop by drop works very quickly on most earthworms.  Putting them
into a 5% solution to start should work.  

Alternatives are adding a few menthol crystals to the water surface, adding 
magnesium sulfate crystals, or 0.015% propylene phenoxetol.  However, I 
am not sure about recovery from these procedures.  You will have to 
experiment.  

Judith A. Fournier <110275.1004 at compuserve.com>


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