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Raggdoll, I was feeling very conflicted about the process after talking to the vendor. I talked with my daughter who loves pearls and is an oceanographer for Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. She told me they use this chemical in their biology department and it stops the heart...

Just found out from vendor that they took smaller tahitian pearls from French Polynesia area and sent them to China to be inserted into live akoya pearl oysters and then dipped in chemical bath, which kills them and seals the oyster and then vacuumed sealed and shipped back to vendor in Hawaii...

Thank you Pearl dreamer. I read and watched video on this site about tahitian pearl farming, pearl treatments, akoya and Tahitian pearl info. Appears they destroy the lowgrade oysters and pearls, if I'm understanding the video correctly. I have asked vendor of oysters, if they originated from...

One last question about dying FW pearls. I believe someone said the flesh and outer shell of a FW pearl does not show dye in them when being dyed. I had to use dull knif to get shells open and then literally rip the flesh open to take pearl out. Then to clean oyster shell I had to rip the flesh...

Thanks for info Pearl Dreams! I didn't realized they had FW that was that round and high of luster without imbedding a nucleus pearl. Th only ones this size of FW I've seen with this color and lust are Edison pearls and the pink is a different shade of pink. The pink ones came from an eBay...

So you can see pearl house tahitian pearls and the Aloha pearls tahitian pearls I have attached photos. The photo of large round pearl pair with one pearl slightly darker than other is pearl house. Very nice pearls and they told me they couldn't match drop pearls and my customer was ok with the...

I have purchased, a month ago, from pearl house on etsy some 11mm Tahitian pearl drops for a custom order pair of dangle earrings. I liked the pearls. My customer wanted larger drops and pearl house had them. They were unable to provide a match pair, but they matched well enough and customer...

Ok. Here are photos of shell and more close ups of actual pearls. You can see residue on shell in some of the photos. The Tahitian pearl with the brownish grey color with cherry and green overtones made me believe they were tahitians. Also included photo of one of the pearls that top came off...

Wow! I appreciate all the input! It's Aloha Pearls on etsy. I have video and photos. Still haven't figured out how to post either. Seems it want a URL to post video. I have uploaded photos. My video shows residue better but haven't been able to upload the video. These photos are a group before...

This was a deal from a vendor in Hawaii who I had bought beautiful tahitian pearls, out of the shell in the past. There were stickers on the plastic packages that said, "made in China". The body of the oyster was still attached to the shell and I had to cut into oyster body to get pearl out. No...

They were still in the body of the oyster which was still attached to the oyster shell. I had to find pearl and pull apart the flesh of the oyster to remove it. I don't believe they were dyed. The shells were natural color but small, almost akoya Pearl size shells. All natural colors that vary...

I'm a jeweler and recently bought my first wholesale lot of tahitian pearl drops in the oyster shell. I was very excited to get the lot, open them, remove pearls, and clean them. After doing about 20 pearls, including gently cleaning them with dawn dishwashing detergent and a very soft...