Lucy, The Bay at Port St Joe is where I found my green olive, and yes the
papermill was in operation at that time.
We were there this summer and we noticed the paper mill was not operating.
Anyone know if it closed permanently?
And my green olive lost its color too.  One our our conch-lers suggested I
soak
mine in mineral oil and see if any of the color comes back.  Have you tried
that?  Ardeth
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From: Lucy Clampit <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 9:08 PM
Subject: [CONCH-L] green olives


> Greetings,
> Sorry to go back to an old subject, but have had a hard time keeping up
with Conch-L lately.  In July of 1976 we collected some green sayana in the
Bay at Port St. Joe, Florida. They were alive.  My husband saw them first
and thought he had found a new species. (He just finds them.  I have to do
the rest.)  I'm an olive person and have collected, traded or bought sayana
from all along the Gulf of Mexico coast and the east coast of Florida but
have never seen green ones from any other location.  I just now looked at
them again.  The green is gone.  The green area was on the back just below
the suture.  At the time I felt that it was algae on the shell and only
brought 3 home.   One of them is rough in the green area and looks as
thought something ate away part of the glossy outer layer.  It is now white
in that area.   The other two are grayish in the area and are smooth and
glossy as though they applied a layer of shell over the green stuff.  I
believe that there was a paper mill in the area at the time.  Could it have
discharged something into the water that caused this?  Have any of the
collectors who live in that area seen any green olives?  We have been back a
few times since and haven't found green ones again.
>
> I had some sayana in an aquarium for a couple of years and fed them
shrimp.  They probably would have lived a lot longer if we hadn't moved.  We
had to leave the aquarium on the patio overnight, and it turned a little too
cold for them.  The shell that they added while in the aquarium is white and
chalky.
>
> Lucy Clampit
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