My "unintended expirement" showed that if you have a 1/2 acre pond that has 50% of it at 12'depth and your bio-mass is what it should be then you don't have to panic about winter kill. These are the facts, and that is what expirements create, FACTS.
Thank goodness the scientific community doesn't derive their facts from single event, non-variable controlled "experiments". Your situation is what is referred to as an "anecdote". Not an experiment. Experiments are performed by limiting variables, and then carefully documenting observations over a period of time.
