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Osprey
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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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Is it fresh enough to place on an anthill and let them do the work?
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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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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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Jorge
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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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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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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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
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. |
the beginnings of the next story? 
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What I have done in the past is just to boil it, just to get rid of the aroma.
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Nautilus photo
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What a great find.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Alan
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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that thing is awesome.
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Scientists solve millenia-old mystery about the argonaut
Discover mag article with video re: work done by Australian scientists:
http://tinyurl.com/24f66u9
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Nautilus
Osprey, what a nice thread. Windgirl, thanks for the article.
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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:
carpe diem!
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oh my goodness, what amazing photos !! yup...this is a superb thread !! more photos, more photos ....
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| 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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Congrats, Jorge! Lovely one
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better photo
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