Has anyone ever heard of this:
"I have just read something in the Baensch's Marine Atlas that seems a little ....ummmm....unusual. Can someone comment on this, or say whether they have any experience of this at all ? it states that you can take live oysters, or blue mussels ( eat the meat yourself ) but take the shell and put it into a tropical Marine Aquarium. That by doing so you may propagate saltwater lettuce as the shell is very likely to contain the spores of this marine plant. obviously you cannot cook the shellfish in its shell without killing the plant spores.....but as oysters and mussels are both coldwater species are the spores and creatures found on them likely to survive in warmer water conditions ?"
"I have just read something in the Baensch's Marine Atlas that seems a little ....ummmm....unusual. Can someone comment on this, or say whether they have any experience of this at all ? it states that you can take live oysters, or blue mussels ( eat the meat yourself ) but take the shell and put it into a tropical Marine Aquarium. That by doing so you may propagate saltwater lettuce as the shell is very likely to contain the spores of this marine plant. obviously you cannot cook the shellfish in its shell without killing the plant spores.....but as oysters and mussels are both coldwater species are the spores and creatures found on them likely to survive in warmer water conditions ?"
