Dag jan,
 
Ben net terug van Palawan en zie jouw vraag betreffende Tridacna gigas.
 
Het is in de Philippijnen en wereldwijd een bescherm eksemplaar. Kan niet
verstuurd worden. Ik heb er een in Palawan ongeveer 80cm groot. wordt als
lavabo gebruikt in ons resort. Jammer, je kan het niet in Belgie krijgen.
 
Groetjes,
Roger
 
 
At 11:27 PM 11/6/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello folks,
>
>
>I had to relax from my library-desk for a while, so I took a shell book
>to browse a little...
>Seeing a nice picture of Tridacna gigas, gave birth to a question that
>won't leave me : how on earth can I ever manage to purchase myself an
>adult Tridacna gigas of about 1,5 m and 200 kg, and not paying three
>months salary for it ? And secondly : how can I get a huge shell like
>that over to remote Belgium ?
>
>Any ideas ? Anyone who has a nice specimen of this shell flown over
>directly to his home from the south ? Who knows a good carpenter to make
>me a solid drawer for this... :^))  ?
>Briefly : how is it really done to acquire a shell like that, for people
>living on the upper half of our globe ...?
>
>Thanks in advance for good tips !
>
>Jan Haspeslagh from Belgium
>
>