Temperate Atlantic Compatibility with Reef

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Hey all! So I live right next door to the Atlantic. Specifically, the Chesapeake Bay.

Paging the sages here - will I be able to put mud, sand, rock from the Bay into my tank and increase the diversity of bacteria, copepods and the like? Or will it be too much of a difference in salinity and average temperature? The typical salinity of the oceanfront here is 27 to 30 PPT, I have read.

The creek out behind my house had a salinity of 16 PPT at high tide here off the James River.
 

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