One shake is all it takes for her to dry herself so we can now start taking her for longer swims. The problem is that she does little exercising when she is alone. I think that in the wild, they probably don't make a move without their moms. Our salt water pump gave up so we are running fresh water into the tank. With the lack of salinity, the Red Rock crabs died first then the Rock Fish and Shinners.
Sculpins seem to be hanging in there.
Being very shallow critters up in the inlets they are likely more tolerant of fresh water. Having recently lost all our chickens to the voracious appetite of a transient Racoon, we have locked Loca in her habitat at night. We feel that her strength, tooth development and viciousness with prey are such that, on Aug. 8, we took the door off her habitat. The next morning she went out and down to the float where she spent the morning diving and playing about the floats. Morning swim out and around shag rocks.