Oyster Garden

Who cares for the trials of an Oyster ? Yellohammer can't say much consideration has been paid to this topic, and certainly is not an Oyster eater, however they are a good way in to think about sealife generally.

One can seed an Oyster Bed [or Bay] and have an Oyster Garden - interesting plant crossover language.

The diversity of plants and animals found on oyster bars illustrates the important habitat role that oysters play in Bay systems. 

 

Oysters are like the building blocks of the benthic (bottom) community and over time you should begin to see many organisms that are common to natural oyster bars, for instance, barnacles, mussels, bryozoans and worms. 

While some are predators of oyster spat, most of these organisms are not a threat to oyster survival. Mussels, for example, may compete with oysters for food while barnacles do not generally cause any serious problems unless the barnacle set is extremely abundant; that is because barnacles feed on a different component of plankton. 

Other organisms such as filamentous algae and sea squirts can cause serious problems when they grow heavily on oysters. 

You will also find several kinds of fishes and crabs that concentrate around oysters. Some are simply feeding on associated organisms, some are there for protection themselves, while some are there to lay their eggs and use the oyster shells as a nursery for producing their own young.

And for Vegetarians, we have Oyster mushrooms growing on a bag looking like coral :