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- From: smithsh@sumax.seattleu.edu (Scott H. Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.scuba
- Subject: Re: Shell care
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 00:04:47 -0800
- Organization: Seattle University
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- You have several choices: either (as someone already suggested) let the
- shell sit in water for a few days, gently boil the shell, soak the shell
- in a short chain alcohol (ethanol, methanol, iso-propyl) for a day or so
- then rinse with fresh, preferably distilled, water. Once the organism has
- been removed you can apply a low luster lacquer to the shell which will
- decrease the oxydation process and preserve the coloration. (Keeping the
- shell out of direct sunlight will also help.)
-
- Incidently, I agree that the shells should be left on the reef. They not
- only aid the creatures that created them but creatures that will utilize
- them later.
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