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A garden pond that looks and behaves like a seaside rockpool. Ideally it should support representatives from a diverse cast of animal phyla including crabs, anemones, starfish, whelks and other seaside favourites.
Small print: A decontextualised rock pool is not necessarily an ecologically stable
proposition. An as-yet undefined nutrition supplement should be added if an authentic effect is required to persist for more than, say, 48 hours. Oxygen/salinity/temperature control may also enhance the experience.
Rock music
http://www.qacousti...or-rock-speaker.htm
[pocmloc, Jul 29 2014]
Seagull MP3
https://www.freesou...kiddink/packs/3600/
[pocmloc, Jul 29 2014]
portable rock pool- take it with you!
http://cf1.nurtures...5598_af7a5f337b.jpg
[xandram, Jul 30 2014]
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Now I just want to turn my garden pond into a
rockpool. |
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Presumably a large undeground tank and flushing system would simulate the daily tide refilling and cleaning the pool? |
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A garden rock pool is certainly ecologically stable. By garden rock pool I mean "hole with rocks in the yard". By stable I mean there is stuff alive in there. Diverse - check. Phyla - at least 4 on a bad day. |
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Now if you want the starfish, whelks, mermaids and other expensive fancy trappings when you are 3 hours from the coast well then bust out your wallet. But what about the indigenes? The unappreciated critters next door? The bird in hand? Enoch: open your mind and enhance your experience of your semianaerobic teeming pit of Life! |
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Plus you do not have to explain that it was supposed to the the foundation for a basketball hoop but you got lazy. |
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One important point. If you are going to use it as a
location for eating chips, you need seagulls. Chips
taste better by the sea, but 78% of this effect is due
to the noise of seagulls in the background. |
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That's not a problem in most inland urban areas in the UK, [MB] |
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Really? All we get are pigeons, grouse and
pheasants. |
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In that case it is possible to purchase weatherproof loudspeakers disguised as rocks, and I am sure there are downloadable mp3s of seagull noises available. |
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It also needs brine with a dead fish thrown in, the sound of waves, and
a sniper hired to hit you with bird poop at some random time every
year. |
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