From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Thu Oct 06 23:00:00 1994 Path: biosci!rutgers!mcrcr6!cmcl2!yale.edu!news.ycc.yale.edu!coolab.med.yale.edu!stenor Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Re: Anesthetic? Message-ID: <371vmc$p7@news.ycc.yale.edu> From: Scott Panzer Date: 6 Oct 1994 23:02:36 GMT References: <01HHYN56CE768WW4VP@INVERMAY.CRI.NZ> Distribution: world Organization: Yale University School of Medicine NNTP-Posting-Host: coolab.med.yale.edu X-Newsreader: Nuntius Version 1.2 X-XXMessage-ID: X-XXDate: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 19:03:19 GMT Lines: 24 In article <009858B9.762C20BD@vms.csd.mu.edu> Jeff Otto, 5764ottoj@vms.csd.mu.edu writes: > >Can anyone out there suggest an alternative Drosophila anesthetic to diethyl > >ether that might be more suitable (i.e. safer) for use in a classroom > >setting? > > Two alternatives come to mind: > CO2 > Ice - just place your vials on a bucket of ice, and in a few minutes There's also something called 'Fly-Nap' that is fairly long lasting. I think companies that supply school labs with flies (eg Carolina) have this stuff. I don't know what chemical it actually is. Scott ---------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Panzer | Department of Genetics, SHM I-310 stenor@pcnet.com | 333 Cedar Street panzer@biomed.med.yale.edu | New Haven, CT 06510 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: 203-785-2675 Fax: 203-785-6333 Alt Fax: 203-785-7227 ---------------------------------------------------------------- .