When I was a kid I caught a couple of oysters in a lake, thought I would bring them home and put in an aquarium. Sadly that didn't work out very well and they died. Pretty sure they starved to death since the water in an aquarium is probably far too clean for them to survive. It's a shame they're pretty interesting animals.

Ha! Sadly there is no sound

The fact that they are filters for all the heavy metals and contaminants in the water is why I don't eat oysters.They do a good job of cleaning-up polluted water though.They are essential to the health of the Chesapeake Bay near where I grew up.

Can I put them in my pool?

#2 That would be funny sound, if you look at the clock behind it it looks like a timelapse.

#5 Of course it is time lapse , but there could have been some narrator to explain what the brown water was composed of or something to that effect. What were the oysters filtering?

Wow, an hour and a half. Nature you awesome!

#4 sure, if you have a saltwater pool

I should give myself a thumbs down

Oyster, anyone?

#2, #6, the narrator obviously clammed up.

The water isn't just "dirty" It's phytoplankton that oysters feed on. They are not cleaning pollutants etc from water. Put some heavy metals or pollutants and the oysters will die real quick.

#12 Oysters eat algae and other organic particles floating in the water but contaminants in the water from coastal run-off from farms and industry are retained in the flesh of the filter feeder. Oysters can also be infected with a couple of deadly diseases that affect humans if eaten raw. Since oysters are usually harvested in coastal waters the danger is real.
Tuna don't "eat" mercury but have high levels of it in their flesh because of the buildup from eating lots of smaller contaminated fish.

Reminds me of watching a court house canon rust.