Hello Douglas,

Thanks for the great photos! That blue is out of this world!! It's so metallic looking!! Does that color ever show up in the normal run of pearls?

Pattye
so many pearls, so little time

THAT, is insane... the blue.

Someone might think you guys are using some biodegradable implant on those 'pocket pearls'! Quite surprising, both of them - the blue and the cracked.

Oh, wow! Impressive indeed. What an astounding color!

Perle

We wish we had more Blue Pearls...they are "normal" (I mean, when using a "Rainbow Lipped Oyster" colors are simply fantastic, so "normal" never applies to this species) in a sense, but we can never have enough...(see photo).

We are not "using" a biodegradable substance, but the oysters are...the substance is gonadic tissue, which is basically proteins, fat and sugars.

Most gas giants have a less "terse" skin, sometimes it looks more like the surface of Abalone pearls, but the one we "cracked" has a very nice clean surface and was very much oval in shape.

[salem]

Wow, what a fantastic color. I feel like I could almost go swimming in it. I can see why you would wish to have more of the blue pearls...looking makes me wish for one too!

For all those of you still intrigued by baroque shapes and the ubiquitous "Gas Giants"...a small video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpvjAbdfG0M

It is not a "commercial" video, so don't expect any stunning models running around stark naked. This is rather a "eeky juicy" video about a recent find: a "Gas Pearl", but without a nacreous coating. You will be able to see this concretion with its pearl sac around it.

Hope you all find it useful.

[Raisondetre]

Very juicy indeed - not quite as glamorous as I thought. Does it smell? The kid's adorable!

Not this one...it was mainly made out of water and protein. But this morning we did have a nauseating one.
Pablito is one cute and smart boy...