Quote Originally Posted by foodchain
You know, there's just some jobs I wish I had never done.
Ain't that the truth.
I was a pastor for many years,
and working behind the scenes in the church
was similar to working behind the scenes
in the potable water or processed meats industries...


The problem with the experiment idea, is that there are infinent variables.
Not really.
At least, not within the parameters relevant to aquaculture/aquaponics.
The pH need only vary from, say, 6.0 to 8.0
and the temperature from maybe 16 to 30 Celsius.
If we use the extremes and median values
*ie, pH of 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 and temps of 16, 23, and 30)
that gives us nine iterations to examine.
Even including water hardness would only triple the numbers,
which would be cumbersome but quite do-able.


and they can't duplicate the same results.
That's the scientific method in action.
If it can't be replicated, it ain't true.