Question About Pteria Sterna

[drorient]

Hi how are you?
Seems this forum website has a lot of passion in pearls, and I am really touched and proud of it.
By the way I would like to ask that I am thinking about to culture Pteria Sterna in Indonesia, and to do it maybe the only way to do it by getting the shell/spat from Mexico maybe?

Is somebody know about this or can help with this?

Thanks,
Dr Orient.

 

[CortezPearls]

My recommendation whenever someone is talking about species introduction is: first READ & UNDERSTAND the environmental risks involved in such a thing.
Indonesia should have some populations of Pteria penguin, amongst other species of genus Pteria, and these would be good to start a pearl farming operation. Best to always use your own native species.
Besides: this species is longer lived and grows larger than P. sterna, should be able to produce larger pearls. If you have a breeding program you can also select to produce more colorful shells.

 

[drorient]

We have checked some of the pteria penguin and seems most of them come with yellow to golden color. Thus we I am interested to cultivated something that can produce rainbow color pearl.

We have some pinctada margaritifera as well but many come with silver and light color.

I just hope if i can make something different here as 100% of farm here focus on pinctada maxima to produce southsea.

 

[Pearling Technologies]

Why would you want to do Pteria Sterna in Indonesia? There are already various species there you can use?