Nothing good happens quickly.
Reef keeping punishes the urge to touch everything. The correct move after a change is often to stare at it for three days and do absolutely nothing.
ROOM / 20 GALLONS OF DRAMA
The Reef
A tiny saltwater world in the living room. Beautiful, technical, slow, and always one weird algae outbreak away from becoming tonight's project.INHABITANTS / CURRENT ROSTER
01 / clownfish02 / trochus snails03 / nassarius snails04 / cleaner shrimp05 / Pom Pom crab
Twenty gallons is still an ecosystem.
Light, flow, nutrients, chemistry, cleanup crew, feeding, and animals all push on each other. Small tank. Full-size consequences.
The algae remains extremely committed.
It is not winning. It has, however, filed several appeals.
PROJECT DNA
The part the README would leave out.
ORIGINTiny ocean sounded fun.
ESCALATIONChemistry entered the chat.
BAD DECISIONSTouching things that were fine.
CURRENT STATEStable-ish.
THE PART WHERE I TRY NOT TO TOUCH ANYTHING