INDEPENDENT NEOCARIDINA REVIEW INVITATION Round version: 1.0 Review packet version: 1.2 Assignment: round1-design-temperature Lens: Experimental design and statistics Molt & Moss is a seller-publisher seeking criticism of one bounded public claim. This is not a request for endorsement, a testimonial or agreement with the site. Claim: Warmer water always makes shrimp grow and breed better Claim page: https://moltandmoss.com/care/claims/warmer-faster Guide: https://moltandmoss.com/care/temperature Selection reason: Several direct experiments report different temperature-related endpoints, creating a high-risk opportunity to confuse faster development with better reproduction, welfare or lifetime outcome. Your review scope: Audit experimental units, allocation, temperatures, durations, life stages, endpoint separation, denominators and whether the reconciliation transfers beyond each tested protocol. Consequential failure to check: The synthesis selects one favorable endpoint, mistakes animals for independent treatment units or turns a study temperature into a universal optimum or safe interval. Complete assignment packet: https://moltandmoss.com/research/independent-review-round/packets/round1-design-temperature.txt Comparison: Temperature results depend on the outcome being measured Comparison page: https://moltandmoss.com/research/disagreements/temperature-outcomes COMMON REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. Is the reviewed claim stated precisely enough to audit? 2. Does the supported wording stay inside the source taxon, unit, comparison, duration and endpoint? 3. Does the limitation name the nearest consequential inference the evidence cannot carry? 4. Is the next action observable, measurable or reversible without becoming diagnosis or treatment authorization? 5. Is a consequential source, contrary result, conflict or uncertainty missing? 6. What exact wording should change, if any, and which stable source supports that change? Please state the relevant experience used for this review and disclose any seller, breeder, author, employer, affiliate, paid, gifted or prior-collaboration relationship. Declining or identifying a scope conflict is useful and will be recorded without penalty. Submit one exact critique and stable source through https://moltandmoss.com/research/challenge. Molt & Moss will publish a finite response to a substantive completed review. Reviewer identity is published only with permission.