- axolotl farmer
- May 17, 2007
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I collect shells, primarily Gulf Coast and Atlantic. I have one of everything (almost, I found a junonia fragment the first time I went out and since then, nothing.) One spring visit I got ridiculously lucky and found four horse conchs, all over 12” and a few lightning whelk of similar size. The jewel in my collection is a Tridacna gigas, aka a man eating clam shell half.
As a former museum curator I got to ask if you keep collection data with your specimens? At some point, those shells are very likely to be offered to a museum, and a simple label with collection data (place, time, name of collector) make the whole difference between a scientific specimen and a decorative object.
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