Pearls?

[h20 freak]

Would it be possible for the clams we keep to produce real pearls?If so,Would they be considered natural pearls?I don't own any clams but that sure as hell would be an incentive to buy one:biggrin:

 

[nanchil]

:givebeer:

 

[Deanos]

Valuable pearls come from oysters.

Excerpt: "Almost any shelled mollusk can, by natural processes, produce some kind of "pearl" when an irritating microscopic object becomes trapped within the mollusk's mantle folds, but virtually none of these "pearls" are valued as gemstones."

"Nacreous pearls, the most desirable pearls, are produced by two groups of molluscan bivalves or clams. One family lives in the sea: the pearl oysters. The other, very different group of bivalves live in freshwater, and these are the river mussels; for example, see the freshwater pearl mussel."

 

[Killerdrgn]

So anyone want to setup a group buy for oysters?

 

[tunicata]

Takes a very long time to produce anything marketable, and that's at the 'im obviously a cheap pearl necklace' sort of product.
The shorter the time the thinner and shoddy the 'workmanship'.

 

[jejton]

Deanos why does it classify them as bivalves or clams. It should be " two types of bivalves " as clams are a subcategory just like mussels and oysters. I'm only nitpicking because its you.