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10-12-2007, 11:32 AM
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| Right. Do you know anything about this? Here's the source that prompted the post: a report from the Aquatic Resources Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. LINK: Melo Cultivation for Rare Orange ... unless I am the last on the planet to find out that these pearls can be cultured at all. Any idea whether these are produced in controlled conditions on any scale already? The availability of production from the Melo experiment is unclear, but the article mentions Conch cultivation in Japan !? WHAT!?         |
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10-12-2007, 06:16 PM
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| Hi Ana You are onto something here! I can hardly wait to read more.....
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10-12-2007, 07:34 PM
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| I know- me too! I am a little surprised that the article is mentioning full on pearls, though- I would think that these concretions would be of the Mabe type... It really only makes sense that this new culturing technique should make an appearance in the pearliculture world though, the recent leaps and bounds of progress that has been made in culturing even the Abalone Mabe pearl (Eyris, New Zealand) from single-shelled gastropods has surely paved the way for the Melo Melo and the Conch!
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10-19-2007, 02:05 PM
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| A recent report on the melo project: LINK from Pearel-AE |
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