IMHO - for you to have meaningful results it's important for you to try as hard as possible to follow the directions of the product. Otherwise - any conclusions could be suspect. At a minimum, I would do your dosing the same each time - if you're choosing not to follow the manufacturers instructions
I mean - what is the point? Maybe it would make sense for you to make an ongoing graph - so that everyone reading can see the prior results - posting a table each day may not be as helpful - since I don't think many people can relate the numbers to what you're doing?
Just a quick comment - which is similar to something said early on - It seems like you don't really have a protocol - so no one can interpret what you're posting - which is kind of the antithesis of what this thread is supposed to me. I'm not saying you're doing something wrong - its just that I keep getting notifications - which are your tank parameters - its not clear whether its a question, a conclusion or something else - I would @Randy Holmes-Farley to re-evalutate what we're doing here?
I think you might consider turning off your notifications for this thread if it’s that much of a burden for you.
Unfortunately - the forum was my idea - and I wrote the post at the top - courtesy of Daniel@R2R. The goal of the forum was to encourage questions, and discussions of the experiments. So - without offense - I think you're off base.
Randy, the moderator of the chemistry forum already said that the thread was OK here.
Doesn’t mean you can start telling people what qualifies as a proper experiment in a hobby forum. You aren’t even a staff member here. I think you are being way too harsh and for no good reason. Please don’t take your “job” too seriously; it kills the fun of the hobby.
I'm not going to argue with you. I asked the OP a question, and made a suggestion that a graph would be easier to follow. I'm not going to debate a conversation from months ago. If the moderator of the forum feels my comments over the last day have been somehow inappropriate, they can certainly let me know.
FWIW - I was not trying to get you to stop doing what you were doing - I was trying to help you arrange your results so that others could make sense of the results you were posting. And yes - you made your idea clear from the start. I think with all the data it would be interesting if you could put it together and see if anything came out of it.First: it's interesting to me that this thread, of all that I post on r2r, is the one that seems to get people the most emotionally charged.
Second: I thought I laid out fairly clearly in the title and in the first post that this will be more "from the hip" or "spirit led" than lab conditioned.
c: My three goals seem to have been:
c.1: "posterity". Not sure what I meant by that, but I may or may not be hitting it.
c.b: ease of reference (for me). wherein I would post ongoing data collected. those naturally include nutrient readings and require no interaction from third parties. In fact, ease of reference would be aided by a long string of my data posts.
c.3: get one more entry in the supporting member giveaway. That was succeeded, even though I did not win anything that particular month.
d: I have now drunk my science juice
and will soon post a mid-term evaluation or observation. call it what you will, I will right words, hoping they are coherent, about the status of my tank and it's changes.
That makes sense, I haven't set an end date, but when it comes (probably at the end of the mb7 bottle, 6ish months from day 1), I will have charts. I at present have a sheet with the readings and graphs as well. just takes more effort than I want to put in to post them here very new reading.
