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Re: Carrier shell cleaning
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Andrew Grebneff <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:33:11 +1300
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>A friend trawled a number of carrier shells off Molokai and said that
>the last time he cleaned this species with clorox the attachments came
>off.  What is the better way to clean them.  Its been many years since I
>cleaned one and forget what I did, but the attachments stayed in place.

Bleach will loosen any attachments... corals, polycaet tubes,
barnacles, xenophorid attachments. best just to use detergent and
carefully scrape & scrub.

Fossil ones are even worse... I am cleaning a 120cm specimen now
(diameter not including attachments).
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
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Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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