Dear Cleaners of Tiny Shells,
       After years of collecting miniatures, I've learned a few tricks.  Most helpful hint:  go to your neighborhood pharmacy and ask for some syringes (you know, what we used to call hypodermic needles).  They will make it ieasy to insert any liquid into a tiny aperture.  You can prop up the shell with a little lump of the "sticky tack" made for putting posters on walls, etc., a lot of us use it to position shells in exhibits.  The water pic is good, but in some tightly spiraled miniatures, you may never get everything out of the protoconch.

                        Hope this helps,
                                Linda