If you check three correct answer you are an advanced collector.  (Correct answers at bottom.)

Shells are made by animals?  [  ]  Yes    [   ]  No
Someone paints the colors on cones?   [  ]  Yes    [   ]  No
Shells are only found in the ocean?   [  ]  Yes    [   ]  No
Hermit crabs make their shells larger as they grow?   [  ]  Yes    [   ]  No


Helmut Nisters wrote:

> Dear Conchlers,
>
> can anybody explain me when somebody is an advanced collector. One who has enough cash
> to buy shells. So he can spends much cash / month for buying the most beautiful shells or
> then when somebody takes selfcollected material, make tradings, buying seldom, eg.
> How many species must have an advanced collector. How much material. What is the
> medium number of species (without to many subspecies and forms)  what Conchlers have in their collection
> with best shelling greetings
> Helmut
>
> Helmut "Helix" Nisters
> Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
> phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
>            (please visit it and sign guestbook)
>
> office:
> Natural History Department of the
> Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
> Feldstrasse 11 a
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37

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