When to pull the plug/restart?

[christyf5]

hey! it just doesn't photograph all that well. I don't think I need to reenact yoga poses with my rock like y'all are fond of

I'm desperately trying to wait it out. Already this morning I want to chuck it all and start over. But then I see a bristle worm waving at me and an amphipod scurrying across the sandbed (which is starting to become diatom laden).

Ugh, why can't this hobby just be fun? Wheeee?!?