Dear Hugh and all other patient annelid workers,
A good technique would be to gentle push water inside the tube with the
help of a syringe. This might be useful both for living and preserved
worms. Working with living terebellids and recently settled chaetopterids,
it has also been useful to (gentle) tickle up on the tube so that the worm is
slowly forced to move toward one of the tube ends. Both methods are
often time-consuming, but the risks to damage the worms are lower than
those of an extraction by tube dissection.
Cheers,
Daniel.
Dr. Daniel Martin
Cientifico Titular
Vicedirector
Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CSIC)
Cami de Sta. Barbara s/n
17300 Blanes, Girona
Spain
FAX: 34 972 337806
Phone: 34 972 336101
WWW pages:
Institutional: http://www.ceab.csic.es
Personal: http://www.ceab.csic.es/~dani/
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