"Eric Schreiber" eric at ericschreiber dot com wrote in message
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Thiose comments are patently incorrect. Nothing personal, but they
are. It's that simple.

I appreciate your strong opinion, but I find equally strong opinions in
the other direction. The Krib has discussions on the subject, and I
found numerous mentions via Google as well.





yup, I have seen numerous posters saying the same thing in various plant
forums and also in this newsgroup as I have been lurking. Blackout had no
affects at all. But some people just can't seem to believe that just
because something seemed to work for them does not mean it is written in
stone and works all the time.

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Margolis
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"Margolis" wrote in message
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"Eric Schreiber" eric at ericschreiber dot com wrote in message
yup, I have seen numerous posters saying the same thing in various plant
forums and also in this newsgroup as I have been lurking. Blackout had no
affects at all. But some people just can't seem to believe that just
because something seemed to work for them does not mean it is written in
stone and works all the time.


Tom suggested 'a process to follow'. Surely that cannot be that difficult to
comprehend. Follow the instructions to the tee and I bet my ass it will cure
your BGA problem. It's worked for dozens if not hundreds of folks. Follow
the directions!!!!!!
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**So long, and thanks for all the fish!**

"Happy'Cam'per" wrote in message
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Tom suggested 'a process to follow'. Surely that cannot be that difficult
to
comprehend. Follow the instructions to the tee and I bet my ass it will
cure
your BGA problem. It's worked for dozens if not hundreds of folks. Follow
the directions!!!!!!
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**So long, and thanks for all the fish!**



I'm not saying that if you follow his specific instructions step by step
that it won't help at all, but there is never any guarantee. But this
arguing was about blackout specifically, not all of the additional steps
that Tom lined out. It was just his comment that implied that anybody who
said blackout didn't work were lying, and then his suggestion that nobody
ever said that it didn't work that got to me and I think is what also got to
Eric. That sounded like classic denial and like he was calling Eric a liar
for saying that others have said it didn't work for them. Tom has
definately helped a lot of people here, but the tone at the beginning of
that last post just struck the wrong chord. I didn't really mean to offend
anybody, even though I usually end up doing that anyway.

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Margolis
http://web.archive.org/web/200302152...qs/AGQ2FAQ.htm
http://www.unrealtower.org/faq

Margolis wrote:

yup, I have seen numerous posters saying the same thing in various
plant forums and also in this newsgroup as I have been lurking.
Blackout had no affects at all. But some people just can't seem to
believe that just because something seemed to work for them does not
mean it is written in stone and works all the time.

I suspect that part of the problem is the many kinds of cyanobacteria
that exist. Happy Camper alluded to "The type of Cyano that infects OUR
fish tanks", and I have no doubt that he's right for a particular
common species. I don't think it's at all a stretch, though, to
consider that there might be other species with different nutrient
needs affecting fresh water aquaria.


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Eric Schreiber
www.ericschreiber.com