What’s the temp on the moon’s surface? Wouldn’t liquid water freeze, then sublimate slowly? Like millenia.
Or, is this a “pretend STP” and, I don’t mean Stone Temple Pilots….
I’m not an astrophysicist. So, with that out of the way:
Tides on Earth are based on the moon’s gravitational pull & the Earth’s rotation. This pulls a bubble of water towards the moon, and the Earth’s rotation relative to land masses, makes the tides move in and out.
The tides are also affected by Earth’s local water availability, since storms & draughts impact water availability, even thousands of mile up river. Another example of how local climate affects/contributes to tides: deserts.
Since the moon is fixed facing Earth, without axis rotation, liquids would stabilize without a moving tide relative to Earth. Given liquid water as a lake could not exist on the moon given the environment, there’s always a theoretical chance some undiscovered moon seismologic or unique gravitation issue might cause fluid shift, but hoping for that to contribute to tidal turnover, Langmire circulation cells, and general season lake turnover for mixing of a lake, like happens on Earth likely will not happen.
ETA: damn! I forgot the affect of the sun’s gravity—but I still stand by lack of liquid water on the moon’s surface. Relative to the sun, there would be a tide—but nothing like Earth. The sun’s gravitational affect while the moon is in orbit around the Earth would cause slow fluid shifting. But it wouldn’t resemble the tides on Earth.
I need another piece of paper & No.2 pencil to show my math.