Looking at the list some of the items make no sense as written and then there are the following numbers which do not applys despite being at this for 23 years and having 20 tanks.
Items that are just silly or do not make sense to me: 1, 10, 13, 14 (not on any social media), 15 (rimless tanks make no sense to me), 18 (my house, and others, do not have a space for a fish room), 19, 20 (I buy tanks), 21 (I flew a ton for work and no longer fly anywhere since the late 1980s most in the hobby cannot afford this.), 22 (this Q makes no sense as written), 23 (just plain stupid).
But I wasted a lot of time when I was in college, too.
"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." Thomas Huxley.
The problem is this man did not understand the scientific method. One of the most important features of this method is things can and do change. This happens as knowledge of things increases, new types ot equipment and test procedures are invented. Knowledge is not static, it is subject to revision and advancement. Revisions and changes to what we know are an integral part of the scientific method.
It applies to something every fish keeper learns about, cycling. It was believed that the nitrifying bacteria in tanks were known to be the same as those in waste water treatments. But that all changed with the 1998 research of Dr. Hovanec et al. They discovered the bacteria which dominated in freshwater and salt water aquariums. And then in about 2005 science discovered ammonia oxidizing Archaea, another microorganism. And things have not stopped there.
Soon after the Archaea discovery it was discovered that the Nitrospira which were found to process the nitrite to nitrate were also able to process ammonia thro8hg the nitrate on their own. Who knows what they will discover down the road?
And with each discovery old information was discarded and replaced with better and more accurate information. This is at the heart of the scientific method- things will change as we learn more and we develop better methods for conducting research.
What Huxley should have said it the great triumph of science is it is always searching for better answers to replace what we though we knew. The facts exists, the question is just do we possess the means needed to discover them. However, at any given time we have to work with what we believe are the "facts" until we discover why and how they need to be modified or even replaced entirely. Scientific Knowledge is not static.
