Thread: Tridacna Pearl
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Old 06-01-2008, 05:07 AM
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I agree with Caitlin, and if I may add, Tridacna pearls are not really "pearls"---they are polished "calcium concretions" that have no nacreous glow because there is no fine crystalline aragonite in their composition. Not the most attractive of things.

I'll also echo the part where they are from a protected species, the T. gigas.

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