u/Xanto97

Reposting for visibility.

So, my Sicilian octopus has gotten bronze disease. I do not have photos of the initial symptoms, but I was fairly confident it was bronze disease, it was bright green and came off with light scraping.

I (mostly) followed the instructions online, I made a 5% solution of sodium sesquicarbonate and distilled water. After the first soak, I stripped the patina off, but most of the green was gone! Great news. I followed it up with more scraping, and soaking, and then I did a 3rd soak - “to be sure”.

I left this 3rd soak probably far longer than I needed to, maybe 2 or even 3 weeks? I got distracted, and it’s left in a corner of my kitchen.

When I finally checked on it, I’m presented with an almost a fully oxidized green coin. It “oxidized” while it was soaking in the sesquicarbonate. It looks almost like malachite. What happened here?? I didn’t use tap water at any points. Maybe to rinse out the containers? I was also using the same plastic container for each rinse. It’s currently soaking in a new 5% solution.

Questions: What happened here? Is there any way to recover this? What can I do? It’s much less attractive than it was before.

Yes, I know I messed up by not taking photos at every point in the chain. Feel free to chew me out. Pic 1 is current status, pic 2 and 3 are when I received it, before any BD.

So, my Sicilian octopus has gotten bronze disease. I do not have photos of the initial symptoms, but I was fairly confident it was bronze disease, it was bright green and came off with light scraping.

I (mostly) followed the instructions online, I made a 5% solution of sodium sesquicarbonate and distilled water. After the first soak, I stripped the patina off, but most of the green was gone! Great news. I followed it up with more scraping, and soaking, and then I did a 3rd soak - “to be sure”.

I left this 3rd soak probably far longer than I needed to, maybe 2 or even 3 weeks? I got distracted, and it’s left in a corner of my kitchen.

When I finally checked on it, I’m presented with an almost a fully oxidized green coin. It “oxidized” while it was soaking in the sesquicarbonate. What happened here?? I didn’t use tap water at any points. Maybe to rinse out the containers? I was also using the same plastic container for each rinse. It’s currently soaking in a new 5% solution.

Questions: What happened here? Is there any way to recover this?

Yes, I know I messed up by not taking photos at every point in the chain. Feel free to chew me out. Pic 1 is current status, pic 2 and 3 are when I received it, before any BD.

Sorry if this has been noticed before. But Porter and nina seem to have matching & mirrored profile pictures. afaik, this was after WannaCry released. Is this just cross-promotion? Is it hinting at something bigger?

Will we get a Porter & Nina tour? another Second Sky? Pretty please?

I went to Mazon-creek back in May, but only just got around to trying to open the concretions up via the freeze thaw process. These are the notable ones I’ve seperated out (before any freeze-thaws).

Any ideas about any of these?

Here’s the haul after half a days work. Crazy experience, and I learned a lot! Still need to break the concretions open and clean the exposed ones, but I definitely found some stuff.

Picture 2. Shows off what I think is a plant stem? Or a reed?

Picture 3 is hard to see, but there’s definite lines and patterns on it. Im assuming some sort of leaves.

Picture 4 looks and feels like a fossilized mussel. But I’m not sure if those are found here?

5 & 6 shows off some blobs.

6 & 7 shows something…it looks a lot like a chestnut or walnut. Could it be a fossilized nut? I have one more image of it

Picture 8 is just a really weird concretion I found. Completely flat bottom!

Any help with ID or comments are welcome!