Oysters

• wrexham

  21 May 07, 12:31

  how do they reproduce?
• Ferret

  21 May 07, 12:36

  the pearl is actually an egg.
  
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• MohamedF

  21 May 07, 12:40

  You see... when Mommy Oyster and Daddy Oyster really love each other...
  
  nope... they're hermaphrodites....
• wrexham

  21 May 07, 14:24

  no one knows?
• Herzog_Zwei

  21 May 07, 14:27

  Originally posted by wrexham:

  no one knows?

  You want a bloody lesson in oyster biology?
• SGpork

  21 May 07, 14:53

  i dont care.
  just give me fresh 1 will do.
  
  
• the.owl

  21 May 07, 14:54

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  the pearl is actually an egg.
  
  GOOGLE IS UR FRIEND !

  i thought its the secretions calcify?
  
• MohamedF

  21 May 07, 15:06

  Originally posted by MohamedF:

  You see... when Mommy Oyster and Daddy Oyster really love each other...
  
  nope... they're hermaphrodites....

• Kuali Baba

  22 May 07, 01:20

  From Wikipedia:

  They are protandric, which means that during their first year they spawn as males (releasing sperm into the water). As they grow larger over the next two or three years and develop greater energy reserves, they release eggs, as females. An increase in water temperature prompts a few initial oysters to spawn. This triggers a spawning 'chain reaction', which clouds the water with millions of eggs and sperm. The eggs become fertilized in the water and develop into larvae, which eventually find suitable sites on which to settle, such as another oyster's shell.

• allentyb

  22 May 07, 12:25

  wiki is your friend