A thought on gathering information and making conclusions

[Charterreefer]

I recently started to search for information regarding H2O2 dosing. I came up with a few burning thoughts based on my search. There are some people that say beware! And, there are others that say it's fine. I guess the truth is somewhere in between. I was thinking that if more of us applied a more scientific approach to our method of gathering data (observations) i.e. more critical observation of results, we would solve more issues that can plague our tanks. Also a template for what is in our tanks; water parameters, lights, feeding amounts. We need to have some sort of template for those of us who do take the plunge and experiment with our tanks (H2O2 dosing in this case) to fill in the blanks. It would Guide them/us to taking more critical observations, thereby providing more robust information. If that is done the more critical and seasoned thinkers on these sites could come up with better conclusions based on the empirical information provided by someone who might otherwise draw the wrong conclusions (based on what they think they saw happening in their tanks). It would provide less adulterated information coming from a larger sample group. Outliers would be more apparent.
I feel that it would help everyone of us develop more robust ways of documenting and addressing these scourges to our tanks, minimizing wipeouts or causing more problems than they are supposed to cure. We are all in this together. Let's stop paying tons of money on snake oil! This would help.

R2R is a fantastic site. Thank you R2R for letting people like myself share my thoughts with everyone.

 

[Labridaedicted]

Yeah, I think people should keep a log (digital or analog) with notes, observations, photos, etc. Makes it easier to back up claims. There's a bunch of apps that do this now.