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Originally Posted by glass-gardens.com
I trust independent lab analysis over experience simply because user experience can be very subjective and I don't see any real world experience that would withstand scientific scrutiny as to the conclusions.
I used to drive a Chevy, it was a POS, then I bought my Ford, it's great, therefore Ford is better than Chevy, right?
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Glass is spot on here. You can't "prove" results with 3 or 4 tanks. I doubt that any 1 bag of flourite and any 1 bag of this stuff could be justifiably considered a "random sample" nor do I think it is a very good sample size. When it comes down to it, 1 bag/bucket of the stuff that's all in the same aquarium, and you only set up 1 aquarium of each, won't give you enough data to get very stable results.
For a TRUE experiment, you'd have to really up the sample size!
Since very few of us are in the position to set up 20-30 tanks for each and then perfectly control all variables to give a good analysis, I'm with glass on leaving "proving" data to the labs. Or Tom Barr. XD