We've been oyster gardeners now for just shy of a month and we had no idea if our oysters had survived, died, served as food for a predator, or how they were doing. Although we religiously flip the oyster bag over each week as we were instructed to do, the heavy growth of algae (which we were told to expect) makes it impossible to see how the oysters are doing. So, on a bright sunny August day, we decided to pull them out, cut all the cable ties, and take a look. Here's the algae covered float:
It was very suspenseful as we opened the bag...and much to our surprise, the oysters not only survived, but they seemed to be thriving in the water by our pier. Here they are in the bottom of the bucket while we attempted (and failed) to get the algae scrubbed off the float:
In case you need to have your memory jogged as to our starting point, here's the size of the oysters we put in almost a month ago:
And here's where we are today - not bad at all!
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