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Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« on: September 11, 2024, 11:23:03 AM »
I saw this Tiktok video of a guy in Alaska who threw a bear skull into a pot and in 48 hrs it looks spotless! Second Pic is 24 hrs in.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8JWcGMP/

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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2024, 11:23:57 AM »
This is after 48 hrs

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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2024, 11:36:14 AM »
My guess is it is sand fleas eating it. Works great

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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2024, 11:42:04 AM »
Im curious if having it soak in the saltwater doesn’t affect it tho. That’s def multitasking if it works that well!
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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2024, 01:00:51 PM »
My guess is it is sand fleas eating it. Works great

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Sand Fleas will devour flesh, so yes it works great!
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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2024, 01:22:30 PM »
Yes, he says on the clip that the "sea lice"  have cleaned it up but I think he means sand fleas.

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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2024, 06:28:31 PM »
Except if you do that in the central sound somebody will steal your pot, AND your skull.
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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2024, 06:55:05 PM »
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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2024, 11:25:53 PM »
I've tried this before and definitely didn't have the same results. I had a deer skull down a few days and the crab picked off the meat but didn't do much to the connective tissue.

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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2024, 07:49:17 AM »
I would guess that Alaskan waters are much much cleaner than the Sound is if thats where you tried it. The sand fleas in the sound are probably mostly up by Canada eating all the fecal matter they constantly dump into the ocean!

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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2024, 08:24:12 AM »
I would guess that Alaskan waters are much much cleaner than the Sound is if thats where you tried it. The sand fleas in the sound are probably mostly up by Canada eating all the fecal matter they constantly dump into the ocean!

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Is Victoria ever going to get a grip on their sewage system?
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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2024, 08:53:04 AM »
It works awesome! I use to always wire in all my bear skulls and extra skulls from trapping in my shrimp pots. It’s the little sea lice on the ocean floor that clean them crazy quickly.
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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2024, 08:54:00 AM »
If I remember correctly they don't care because the current brings it right to us. Or maybe someone said that as a joke.  :dunno:

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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2024, 10:11:46 AM »
It works awesome! I use to always wire in all my bear skulls and extra skulls from trapping in my shrimp pots. It’s the little sea lice on the ocean floor that clean them crazy quickly.

I have seen them reduce a 100 lb halibut to skin and bones in just a few hrs. on a longline. The halibut is fine as long as it's alive. But if one swallows a hook and dies, sand fleas are on it immediately.
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Re: Crab and shrimp cleaning skulls
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2024, 12:25:45 PM »
I would guess that Alaskan waters are much much cleaner than the Sound is if thats where you tried it. The sand fleas in the sound are probably mostly up by Canada eating all the fecal matter they constantly dump into the ocean!

 :chuckle:

Is Victoria ever going to get a grip on their sewage system?

Probably right around the time Seattle does.  City and county are too busy worrying about what everyone else is putting in the water.

 


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