ducati1212
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- What state or country do you live in
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Ok so this is probably a very stupid question that seems to answer itself but im going to ask anyway because why not.
I am buying a house on the ocean in Maine. Its a nice rocky shore with about a 9 foot tidal swing so lots of nice little pools of crabs and critters right in my yard. The water is about 65 - 68. Any chance I can put anything from there in a reef tank or would I need a cold water tank.
Now I know this seems to answer itself I was just not 100% sure if things can live in a temperature swing and might be ok. Snails? Hermits? Clam?
Also reading up on the area and how the gulf of maine works at a chemical level is very much like reading reef information if anyone else likes that type of thing some good reads here
www.gulfofmaine-census.org
for example
"Variations in the surface water nutrient load available for the spring bloom are driven by the relative proportions of Labrador Slope Water and Warm Slope Water entering the gulf and the degree of winter convective mixing (Brown and Beardsley, 1978). Nutrient concentrations are greatest for Warm Slope Water, which carries nitrate concentrations >23 μM and least for cold Labrador Slope Water, which has on the order of 15-16 μM. Silicate concentrations in both water masses, on the other hand, are on the order of 10-14 μM, which means that nitrate concentrations are greater than silicate. Because diatoms, which dominate the spring bloom period, take up nitrate and silicate in roughly equal proportions, silicate, not nitrate, normally limits the spring bloom in the Gulf of Maine. On the other hand, nearer the coast and the influence of riverine sources of silicate, which can exceed 200 μM (Schoudel, 1996), the bloom is limited first by nitrate."
I am buying a house on the ocean in Maine. Its a nice rocky shore with about a 9 foot tidal swing so lots of nice little pools of crabs and critters right in my yard. The water is about 65 - 68. Any chance I can put anything from there in a reef tank or would I need a cold water tank.
Now I know this seems to answer itself I was just not 100% sure if things can live in a temperature swing and might be ok. Snails? Hermits? Clam?
Also reading up on the area and how the gulf of maine works at a chemical level is very much like reading reef information if anyone else likes that type of thing some good reads here
Oceanography » Gulf of Maine Census
for example
"Variations in the surface water nutrient load available for the spring bloom are driven by the relative proportions of Labrador Slope Water and Warm Slope Water entering the gulf and the degree of winter convective mixing (Brown and Beardsley, 1978). Nutrient concentrations are greatest for Warm Slope Water, which carries nitrate concentrations >23 μM and least for cold Labrador Slope Water, which has on the order of 15-16 μM. Silicate concentrations in both water masses, on the other hand, are on the order of 10-14 μM, which means that nitrate concentrations are greater than silicate. Because diatoms, which dominate the spring bloom period, take up nitrate and silicate in roughly equal proportions, silicate, not nitrate, normally limits the spring bloom in the Gulf of Maine. On the other hand, nearer the coast and the influence of riverine sources of silicate, which can exceed 200 μM (Schoudel, 1996), the bloom is limited first by nitrate."
