>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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