Skyler Rodriguez

A mixed reef built around a rock arch that never quite worked out, so it ended up as a more open scape than planned, and honestly it looks better for it. Two firefish gobies hover near their little caves most of the day, darting back in if anything moves too fast near the glass. The lyretail anthias school together over the rockwork, always in motion, which makes the whole tank feel busier than it is. Rock was bare white for a while but it's filled out with coralline and a few frags glued in odd gaps. Running an Oase BioMaster Thermo for filtration and an Eheim Compact pump for flow, swapped in a while back. It's got a different hum than the old one, still notice it sometimes in a quiet room. Salinity gets checked with a refractometer more often than it probably needs to be, old habit from the early cycling days. Sand near the base rock shifts a little differently now with the new flow pattern, small thing but I notice it every time I look.