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LRH19200
10/12/2009, 11:26 AM
has anyone ever made a tank with a tides / waves that slopes up to a kind of beach??
LobsterOfJustice
10/12/2009, 11:35 AM
It would be boring. What would you put in it?
The Escaped Ape
10/12/2009, 12:46 PM
I don't think it would be boring. You could have a great biotope tank, with mangroves, and some intertidal species, maybe even try and manufacture the submerged section to look like a tidal pool.

I'm sure that there are ways to make this work really well.
LRH19200
10/12/2009, 05:46 PM
bump..

possible sand sifting crabs...?? or something along those lines

has anyone ever seen a tank like this / have pictures..
how could you make it work?
ludnix
10/12/2009, 06:00 PM
It would be difficult to make the sand stay in a slope, it would be interesting to have a shallows / tidepool tank though.
noahm
10/12/2009, 06:18 PM
They have something similar to that at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, but minus the sand. It is basically a tidepool with massive ebb and surge. I think sand would be a major problem, but you could maybe do it with crushed coral or something a bit larger. There might be a way to tweak the cycle so that if you did have sand, you could have a surge or something that would push it back up the beach once a day. Easier to just go to the beach.
ddinox64
10/12/2009, 06:20 PM
Anything that would inhabit the sand would level it in short time.

Check this out. I'm not good with the linking of links.
www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-12/ac/feature/index.php
ddinox64
10/12/2009, 06:21 PM
Huh! Worked. Look at me all computer geeky.