I found a turtle shell with the bones laying in it and I am hoping to clean up the shell and bones. It is still a little "wet" on the inside and it still smells. What can I use to clean it and get rid of the smell? Bleach? Peroxide? And, how long will it take? Thanks, Leigh.
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Leigh,
I usually use a mixture of bleach and water, about a 50/50 ratio. You can either put the shell into the mixture and sumerge it, Or your can brush the mixture on with a paint brush.(Depends on if you want to keep the outer shell intact, if you sumerge it the coloring will flake off and leave a white shell) If you brush on the mixture, repeat the process about 5 or 6 times, letting dry each time, then let it sit tin the sun for a while, (Always seems whiter that way.) That should do it.
-Jeremy
Leigh,
I usually use a mixture of bleach and water, about a 50/50 ratio. You can either put the shell into the mixture and sumerge it, Or your can brush the mixture on with a paint brush.(Depends on if you want to keep the outer shell intact, if you sumerge it the coloring will flake off and leave a white shell) If you brush on the mixture, repeat the process about 5 or 6 times, letting dry each time, then let it sit tin the sun for a while, (Always seems whiter that way.) That should do it.
-Jeremy
After cutting as much meat as I can from a snapping turtle I have set them on a real active Ant hill they will clean them out over a period of a week or two without all the chemicels and not damageing shell. Good luck LJ