Estimate how much water planted hard clams, bay scallops or oysters clear in a Florida estuary or seagrass plot, month by month, compared with flushing and algae growth. A screening tool built on published clearance rates.
Pick a Florida water body or draw a plot, choose northern or southern hard clams, bay scallops or eastern oysters, set shell length, density and area, and see the water cleared each month against residence time, with sources for every number. Design mode works backward from a target. Siphon is a screening tool, not a prediction that seagrass will recover.