Equipment and Supplies - Care Forum https://care.psmfc.org/community/equipment-and-supplies/ Care Discussion Board en-US Fri, 15 May 2026 23:28:17 +0000 wpForo 60 Dish Dividers and Divided dishes https://care.psmfc.org/community/equipment-and-supplies/dish-dividers-and-divided-dishes/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:24:29 +0000 This is s post where I'll put information on how to make or get dish dividers and divided dishes! I'll update this in the near future.

]]> Equipment and Supplies Nikki Paige https://care.psmfc.org/community/equipment-and-supplies/dish-dividers-and-divided-dishes/ Random supply and resource links https://care.psmfc.org/community/equipment-and-supplies/random-supply-and-resource-links/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:07:16 +0000 During CARE 2024 I've been collecting a bunch of random links to helpful resources/tools/supplies, and I thought I'd post them here as well. Feel free to add more!

 

Black Silly Putty from Crazy Aarons

Cobalt Silly Putty from Crazy Aarons

 

Syracuse Watch Glasses:

Single dishes from Amazon

6-pack from Amazon

12 pack from Fischer Scientific

 

End cutters/Nippers for snapping otoliths, from Amazon. These are geared for jewelry making and are nice and precise/fine

 

GIMP photo editor - free, open source photo editing software. Equivalent to Photoshop, including layers (No, I have no idea why it’s named that. But it works!)

And if for some reason you want more (non sparkly) stickers, or the sticker design on any other things (shirts, notebooks, mugs, bags), here’s where you can order them!
CARE Zazzle Shop

(If someone really wants an item with the final otolith in the set “upside down”, I can edit the image file and load it onto any item you’d like on the site)

]]> Equipment and Supplies Nikki Paige https://care.psmfc.org/community/equipment-and-supplies/random-supply-and-resource-links/ Putty! https://care.psmfc.org/community/equipment-and-supplies/putty/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:12:04 +0000 I wanted to leave this here for anyone who wanted it - a couple of us labs use Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty in our sample dishes to hold our otos, and were singing it's praises at CARE. You can get it in large quantites in almost any color you want, and in the past when i wrote a note to them they included hardner to refresh my putty with when it gets too soft. 

 

I love being able to make a water well for looking at surfaces in the same dish as my B&B. Just remember to a) poke a bit of a hole with your tweezers to but the burned oto in, especially if the putty is firm and the oto is small and fragile, and b) put a drop of oil in the hole where you're putting your burnt oto so it doesn't stick. 

 

https://crazyaarons.com/

]]> Equipment and Supplies Nikki Paige https://care.psmfc.org/community/equipment-and-supplies/putty/ Microscope options and imaging software https://care.psmfc.org/community/equipment-and-supplies/microscope-options-and-imaging-software/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:22:55 +0000 Greeting fellow CARE members,

I am curious about different scopes and pricing.  I am current looking for a new scope(for our new age reader!) and got quotes from Leica and Nikon, and while I know they are great scopes from trusted names, they are expensive.  Do anyone have any leads on other scopes or vendors that have more reasonable prices?

Second part - What is the current preferred imaging software?  We had been using Image Pro Plus.  Thanks and It will be nice to see you all again(whenever that mat be!)

 

Andy

 

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