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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 03:32 PM
Paper nautilus - PHOTO ATTACHED


The weather is great right now on the East Cape so I took a beach walk today and found a perfect, 5 inch Paper Nautilus.

Been all over the web trying to find out a good way to clean it -- no joy yet. The owner was already dead and fell out when I picked it up but left behind a lot of material. I'm afraid to follow cursory google instructions to soak in 50/50 bleach-water cause that sounds like it might damage the shell.

Anybody found one, had to clean it?

[Edited on 2-14-2012 by Osprey]
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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 04:25 PM


Is it fresh enough to place on an anthill and let them do the work?



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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 04:30 PM


Wow that is a nice shell. Never found one with the octopus inside. Maybe the bleach would work or a detergent and a soft brush. Good luck that's a prize. Keep an eye out cuz this is the time they float in.



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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 04:56 PM


Hola - found several of these last year and again last week.

Four of those I found had no eggs inside, so I just gently rinsed the sand out in the ocean, dried them outside and then stored them in plastic food storage containers to protect them. One had a yellow mass inside and I rinsed the mass out in the ocean thinking it was the eggs as the paper nautilus is actually an egg case that the octopus uses to protect the eggs. As you may know...these amazing creatures are not nautilus nor shells nor paper - just amazing mariners.




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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 04:59 PM


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I can't help with processing the shell but I was interested in your use of the term "no joy". Are (were) you a pilot?
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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 05:20 PM


Jorge,

If you bleach it, it will lose any subtle color it may still have. I'm sure you know that. I would suspect that most nautiluses found on a beach have already lost it due to the sun's rays.
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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 05:59 PM


Hi, thanks to all. Just after I posted I rinsed it out with warm water and all the material inside just washed away down the sink.

Skip, it was still in the water when I walked by and the octopus was in it but dead so no bleaching from the sun.

Ken, not a pilot, just borrowing a areo term cause it says it all.

I was very surprised to be there when the thing was there. I never win anything. If I held the winning lottery ticket in California it would be nullified because I can't prove worthiness.
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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 06:07 PM


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I was very surprised to be there when the thing was there. I never win anything. If I held the winning lottery ticket in California it would be nullified because I can't prove worthiness.


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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 06:34 PM


What I have done in the past is just to boil it, just to get rid of the aroma.



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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 07:13 PM
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[*] posted on 2-13-2012 at 08:13 PM


What a great find.


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[*] posted on 2-14-2012 at 07:16 AM


Quote:
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Is it fresh enough to place on an anthill and let them do the work?


The best suggestion yet. Ants would leave it clean.
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[*] posted on 2-14-2012 at 10:48 AM


that thing is awesome.



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[*] posted on 2-14-2012 at 10:52 AM
Scientists solve millenia-old mystery about the argonaut


Discover mag article with video re: work done by Australian scientists:
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[*] posted on 2-14-2012 at 04:40 PM
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Osprey, what a nice thread. Windgirl, thanks for the article.



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[*] posted on 2-14-2012 at 04:57 PM


One of my fondest diving memories was seeing a live chambered nautilus in Papua New Guinea. I am sure they are related to the paper nautilus:





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[*] posted on 2-14-2012 at 05:05 PM


oh my goodness, what amazing photos !! yup...this is a superb thread !! more photos, more photos ....




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[*] posted on 2-14-2012 at 07:40 PM


Quote:
Originally posted by Ken Bondy
One of my fondest diving memories was seeing a live chambered nautilus in Papua New Guinea. I am sure they are related to the paper nautilus:

...not paper, nor nautilus, nor shell, but an argonaut.

"The chambered nautilus was later named after the argonaut, but belongs to a different order, the Nautilida"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonaut_%28animal%29;)




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[*] posted on 2-15-2012 at 07:28 AM


Congrats, Jorge! Lovely one
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[*] posted on 2-15-2012 at 08:10 AM
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