Taken by the sea: notes from our first tidepool walk

We traded our glass boxes for the real thing: a low-tide morning on the rocks at Rocky Cove.

The club that spends every meetup arguing about water parameters went very quiet in front of the first tidepool. Anemones, hermit crabs, and a sculpin doing its best impression of a rock: nobody’s tank has ever been this well aquascaped.

Half of us came home planning a brackish setup, and all of us came home humbled. The ocean has been running the perfect reef tank all along, no protein skimmer required.