Tide pools are cool, too!

[JoJosReef]

Crystal Cove, CA. Definitely worth a visit if you're in SoCal!

A few chitons!

MOAR NEMS!

A few barnacles.

Seriously, these rocks are full of life.

800lb of Live Rock!

Amazingly adapted to living with the tide coming in and out!

I've seen posts of builds that talk about making a tide pool tank, but I can't imagine replicating the turbulence of the surge and ebb of the waves in a rock pool. Would be a cool concept, though!

 

[bluemon]

Haven’t been to crystal cove in a while! You’re making me want to visit soon!

I also want to see more people do cold water nem tanks, I remember someone having a California inspired tank with strawberry anemones everywhere

 

[JoJosReef]

Haven’t been to crystal cove in a while! You’re making me want to visit soon!

I also want to see more people do cold water nem tanks, I remember someone having a California inspired tank with strawberry anemones everywhere

@TangerineSpeedo has a temperate tank with all that good stuff!

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

Crystal Cove, CA. Definitely worth a visit if you're in SoCal!

A few chitons!

MOAR NEMS!

A few barnacles.

Seriously, these rocks are full of life.

800lb of Live Rock!

Amazingly adapted to living with the tide coming in and out!

I've seen posts of builds that talk about making a tide pool tank, but I can't imagine replicating the turbulence of the surge and ebb of the waves in a rock pool. Would be a cool concept, though!

Been there, done that...

 

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I've seen posts of builds that talk about making a tide pool tank, but I can't imagine replicating the turbulence of the surge and ebb of the waves in a rock pool. Would be a cool concept, though!

I want to try this. Goes along with my favorite setup.. a reef pond.

 

[ZzyzxRiver]

I worked at the conservancy here for 6 years. Walking the tide pools during my breaks (and during not my breaks, LOL) was spectacular for my soul!
The biodiversity in these tidepools is spectacular, from spanish shawl nudibranchs to ochre stars to octopuses to lobsters to limpets to oysters--the list goes on and on. There's quite a variety of grasses, macroalgae, birds and fish as well.
Listen to @JoJosReef and visit if you can!

 

[Hairyteeth]

Salt point up north is epic tide pooling

 

[JoJosReef]

Salt point up north is epic tide pooling

Will pin that on the Places to Go map!

 

[UncommonSense]

Will pin that on the Places to Go map!

Scott creek beach north of Davenport; the low tide is prime time for musseling! (Out of red tide season, of course!)