GREAT question. I will watch out for these answers... Thank you Ellen.


Le 04/07/2015 21:37, Ellen Bulger a écrit :
> Hallo Conch-L Campers,
>
> So I found some Xenophora on our most recent trip to Eleuthera (with the
> most excellent Jim Cordy and most excellent Tom Ball).
>
> Oh the euphoria! Oh the gloating!
>
> I will write a trip report, maybe more than one. I will post pictures from
> the trip. There are just a few already up on my Flickr. I have more, but I
> have been tied up with various things. I'm behind in so many things, email
> not the least of them.
>
> I will take photos of my Xenophabulous finds, you know I will. I will
> SHARE.
>
>   But just now I am cleaning my glorious Xenos.
>
> Soak and swish and soak and swish and soak and swish and I feel like an
> ear, nose & throat specialist, trying to clear out these stubborn spiral
> spaces of residue, except that the smells are, at times, halfway between
> diaper pail and CSI.
>
> I have just a couple that still need the swishing. Most have already had
> their bleach bath and have been oiled. A few have reached the point where I
> have stuffed the apertures with cotton and stand ready to glue on the
> 'perks (I have ever so meticulously kept each specific perc with its
> particular shell.)
>
> Slobbo moi, I am doing it right this time.
>
> Only,
> ONLY,
> only...
>
> I don't know which way is UP.
>
> I know which side of the operculum was facing the snail and which faced the
> outside world. But which edge of the perc pointed dorsally, towards the
> spire and which was ventral, towards the seafloor, I know not. And I'm
> damned if I'm going to glue them on the wrong way.
>
> So can anyone give me pointers? Harry? Dolores? Somebody? Please!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ellen Bulger
>
> (Not a Xeno Xpert, just a Xeno FIEND!)
>
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