Many of the tanks are laboratory-like, not habitat tanks. Scientists like to keep their animals visible so they can focus on a certain characteristic. Right now the tank is home to a basket star. Other times of the year the tank houses squid eggs, juvenile rockfish, sea hares, or other remarkable animals. See up-close each animal's specialized characteristics in the aquarium tanks.
Sculpins use a homing behavior to find their home pools when the tide goes out.
Come to the Seymour Center and ask some questions. Innkeepers burrow in the mud creating u-shaped tunnels with each end of the tunnel reaching the seawater above. People who explore California's mud flats at a negative low tide often find the entrances to innkeeper worm burrows exposed by the receding tide water. An innkeeper worm uses an interesting method to collect food without ever having to leave its muddy home. First, the worm secretes a cylindrical mucus net within its u-shaped burrow.