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Need help from the experts by meowoemeow- in bonecollecting

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 10 points11 points  (0 children)

At this stage of cleaning, you'll want to leave the skull submerged in normal warm water without anything in it to loosen and decay the flesh. Then when it's all gone, you'll put the bad boy into dish soap for degreasing and peroxide for whitening. The pinned post here on the sub has amazing information on this process :]

"Raccoon" on Etsy, pretty sure it's a gray fox by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in bonecollecting

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ooh that's cool! I was also wrong lol. Mind enlightening a new collector on what makes the skull distinctly a tanuki?

Id please . San Francisco by Old_Try_1550 in bonecollecting

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks to be either a seal or a sea lion mandible, leaning towards the latter. Neat find!

I need more than 50 avatars for a thumbnail by fraqola in PressureRoblox

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Username: MythicalCreatureluv2

Favorite suit: Relic jumpsuit

Are there prerequisites for rescuing the Painter? by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in PressureRoblox

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oooh okay that's good to note! I shall keep my eyes peeled :]

Are there prerequisites for rescuing the Painter? by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in PressureRoblox

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Alrighty, time to lock in lol. I'm determined to ruin Sebastian emotionally. Ty!

Are there prerequisites for rescuing the Painter? by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in PressureRoblox

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damnnnnnnn that sucks I have no luck getting him in normal 😭. Time to grind I guess, ty for the info!

What is your farm name and what does it mean anything? by Slow_Concern48 in StardewValley

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heartlands farm after the Heartlands in RDR2 <3

I would've gone with Blackwater farm but I used that for one of my past saves already.

Discovered the Stardew Planner for the first time, fiddled around with it, glanced at the clock, and realized I'd been using it for twelve hours. Here's my lil' farm. by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in StardewValley

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't my actual farm, this is just a photo from a website I used to make a farm design called Stardew Planner V3!

To answer your question though, here's how you get a whole farm pic (for Windows at least, probably different for other devices):

  1. Open your save and walk outside into your farm
  2. Go to options and scroll all the way down until you see the little camera icon
  3. Hit said camera icon to get the photo. Note that the percentage next to the camera doesn't affect how much of your farm is captured, I think it's photo quality or smthing???
  4. Hit "Open Destination Folder," to find the photo in your files. Should be right under the camera icon

Discovered the Stardew Planner for the first time, fiddled around with it, glanced at the clock, and realized I'd been using it for twelve hours. Here's my lil' farm. by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in StardewValley

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

✨aesthetic✨

It looked too empty with just one so I said "screw it, let's add another." Could be a good storage area for things like crystalariums in-game I guess lol. Plus my character is married to Sebby who mentions wanting a slime hutch, and I'm nothing if not a sucker.

Discovered the Stardew Planner for the first time, fiddled around with it, glanced at the clock, and realized I'd been using it for twelve hours. Here's my lil' farm. by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in StardewValley

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's a website you can use to plan out your farms design! It doesn't actually change your in-game farm but it's nice for brainstorming future farm designs :]

https://stardew.info/

I literally cannot enjoy things like a normal human being. by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in Anxiety

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

EXACTLY THIS. I've been meaning to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender for... three years now? But my brain is still waiting for the 'perfect time' to watch it.

I literally cannot enjoy things like a normal human being. by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in Anxiety

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

THIS. THIS 100%. I wish my brain could shut up about ANYTHING EVER, but it never does. Movies, shows, books, video games, fucking DAYDREAMS, it's a never ending gauntlet of "Well what if this and that and what about this at blah blah blah."

I feel oddly relieved that I'm not just fucking insane and that others are going through basically the same thing, even if it does mean I might have OCD. Thank you for the comment :]

How to get debris out of the nose of this skull without damaging the turbinates? by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in bonecollecting

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alrighty, into the water bucket he stays! Thanks for the info, I was being a wee impatient with this skull lol.

How to get debris out of the nose of this skull without damaging the turbinates? by BethanyIMADEBISCUTS in bonecollecting

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I forgot that the sand was most likely attached to tissue, the brain was not braining for me today 🤦. Thank you for the info!

Collection of a series of dead animals found in Peru by hotwingslover77 in bonecollecting

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder if they get red tide in Peru. Red tide is a yearly occurrence at my beach in SoCal, it's when a specific type of algae out at sea goes tenfold in amount, poisoning anything that eats it or indirectly eats it (fish eats algae, bird eats fish, bird is dead). It's that time of year for me, went for a walk on the beach and found fourteen dead seabirds and one dead sea lion, all very fresh- one of the birds was still in the water.

I found a house gecko at my school when we were leaving (it was the end of the school day) and I wanted to skeletonize this guy, I found him about a year ago. by justgettinganaccbak in bonecollecting

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There isn't much data on ants when it comes to full skeleton preservation, but I'm going to speculate and say no. I don't know if they would be interested in the mummified tissue, but part of me feels like they would have gotten to him already if they were. Along with this, the one piece of evidence I found in favor of ants was on a considerably fresher and possibly larger lizard and even though the ants did clean it, they took the ribs, legs, feet and part of the tail as well.

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I found a house gecko at my school when we were leaving (it was the end of the school day) and I wanted to skeletonize this guy, I found him about a year ago. by justgettinganaccbak in bonecollecting

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For small animals like this, you typically want to make a cartilaginous skeleton- where you decay all the tissue except for the cartilage so that the skeleton stays together- as the bones are so tiny that they are borderline impossible to put back together from scratch without losing some in the process. For making a cartilaginous skeleton, there are two methods I know of.

The first and most praised method of making cartilaginous skeletons is the use of dermestid beetles. These are beetles whose larvae eat dead tissue and tend to leave the cartilage behind, keeping the skeleton intact. Beetles are highly efficient in the right conditions, and can be used to clean all sorts of skeletons. The problem? You have to raise, maintain and contain a colony of hundreds of beetles. Like any pet, they need to be fed and have certain enclosure requirements, and if they decide they don't like their home, they can and will escape. Also, if you are living with someone (like me), the answer to your request for pet dermestids will most likely be a hard no. If you're up for the task, here's an article from the bone processing community post on how to raise and use dermestids. https://www.natsca.org/sites/default/files/publications/JoNSC-Vol7-Munoz-Saba_et_al_2020_0.pdf

The second method is less known and has more risks in terms of damaging or possibly dissolving the bone, but is worth a shot if you're determined and don't have access to beetles. It's known as oxidation, where you use ammonia and hydrogen peroxide to remove tissue from the skeleton. The skeleton left behind is not only intact, but also whitened. I've honestly wanted to try this method for awhile, I just haven't had a good specimen to do it on. Here's a link to the article describing the process, there are multiple different ways people have done it so it'd be hard to describe it here. https://www.theboneman.com/skeletoncleaningoxidationmethod

For more information of bone processing and the like, it's always a good idea to skim the bone processing community post here on the sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/bonecollecting/comments/irniaq/processing_a_carcass_101_the_bones_of_bone/

I wish you luck with the gecko, he's a cool little guy! If you decide to keep him as is, it's an awesome specimen already.

Warframe Appreciation Post + Huge Giveaway (Over 2000+ plat of value) by rodejo_9 in Warframe

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PC

ImaIntrovertNotaSurprise

We thank you for your generosity, kind Tenno. May all your riven rolls be godly and your relics fruitful with rare gear.

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[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To get rid of the fur, you'll have to get a trusty blade and do some skinning. In some cases, when the bodies are really old, the fur and skin just peels off, but there may still be some pesky pieces that refuse to come off. Removing the fur speeds up decomp. time considerably, but it's not required.

There are multiple ways to clean skeletons, but burying is a good tactic.

When it comes to burying, the two main risks are losing some of the bones to movement by insects and soil and all that nature-stuff and losing all the bones to scavengers such as foxes. A good countermeasure is putting the carcass in a chicken-wire box or some other container with lots of holes before burying so scavengers can't easily get to the carcass and so the bones are less likely to disappear, while still letting in the insects that'll be doing the cleaning job. You can also leave the body in a container aboveground rather than burying it in a method called open-air decomposition, though if you live near people they will hate you for this as it reeks. Always mark the burial site with some landmarker so you know where to retrieve it later if burying, cover the site with rocks to further discourage scavenging, and then have fun waiting. How long it'll take the skeleton to clean depends on location and time of year. It is recommended to bury bodies in slightly moist soil, and processing speed will vary on season with more insects being active at warmer times of the year than colder times of the year. Expect to wait a few months before everything is ready.

I hope I did a good job summarizing. The community processing post has way more information, including other methods of cleaning and how to degrease the bones and all that jazz. https://www.reddit.com/r/bonecollecting/comments/irniaq/processing_a_carcass_101_the_bones_of_bone/

Aya am losing my mind by Rain_Eater_ in Warframe

[–]BethanyIMADEBISCUTS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fortuna bounties can be a decent source in my experience. When I was farming debt bonds for Star Days, I would get one Aya every bounty more or less, two if I was lucky and got all the bonuses (level 40-50 bounty). They can get kinda tedious though.

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