Field-Trip on Rocky Cove Aquarium Club

Taken by the sea: notes from our first tidepool walk

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Field trip diary: a day at the Vancouver Aquarium

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fifteen of us spent a rainy Saturday exactly where we wanted to be: in front of very large tanks.

Highlights included the kelp forest exhibit, a spirited discussion about sump design, and one member taking ninety-two photos of the same anemone.

We left inspired, humbled, and with a shared list of wildly unrealistic dream-tank plans.

Field trip: Vancouver Aquarium

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A group day trip to see how the professionals do it, and argue about which exhibit has the best aquascape.