Do you have video of larvae with eyes?

do the spats eat rotifer?

@VAInstituteofMarineScience

2 жыл бұрын

Great question! :-D The spat eat single-celled algae; rotifers are too big for them to eat. The adults, however, have been known to eat rotifers! According to "Diet of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, growing in a eutrophic tributary of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA": oysters consume mainly algae, but "...they also consume bits of detrital matter, fragments of seagrasses and numerous other non-algae cells including small animals such as copepods and rotifers, as well as eggs and larvae of various species if they are taken in with the algae (e.g., Haines and Montague, 1979; Newell, 1988; Bayne, 2017)". www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352513421000715

is it possible for you to export your oyster spats to other countries?

@VAInstituteofMarineScience

2 жыл бұрын

No, it's not possible. There are very strict rules about seed transfers because they can contain pathogens that might not be in the destination location. There are even regulations within the USA that restrict movement of seed between certain states.

how about algae ?how to make it?

@VAInstituteofMarineScience

3 жыл бұрын

We've added chapters to make that section easier to find. The chapter on growing algae starts at 4:23. Hope that's helpful!