Finite Neocaridina research portfolio
Knowing what not to research next is part of a trustworthy method. Every named gap has an operating state, one permitted next unit, an activation trigger and a stopping decision.
This is an allocation ledger, not an evidence grade or popularity ranking. Only one bounded validation is active. Community interest can reveal a useful question, but it cannot lower the study design needed to answer it.
Reviewed 2026-08-12. The answerable research agenda governs what would answer each question. The canonical gap and dated search pages govern the current evidence boundary.
Design before asking people to participate
Why this allocation: The question is common and could change receiving practice, but self-selected acclimation stories would add volume without identifying a better method.
Next permitted unit: Draft a prospective package-level protocol with assigned transfer methods, opening chemistry, a standardized receiving system and delayed follow-up.
Activation trigger: The shipping package has first passed its own release gate and an independent methods reviewer accepts the assignment, unit and welfare plan.
Stop decision: Stop at protocol review if package chemistry cannot be measured, methods cannot be assigned prospectively or delayed outcomes cannot include every animal.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Design before asking people to participate
Why this allocation: Documented crosses could replace seller-chart folklore and create a distinctive community contribution, but incomplete showcase offspring would reinforce the same problem.
Next permitted unit: Freeze one exact line-pair, cross direction, family structure, contamination controls, image standard and complete F1 and F2 counting plan.
Activation trigger: At least two source-separated breeders can preserve all offspring denominators and agree to publish ordinary, unexpected and unmarketable outcomes.
Stop decision: Do not recruit when parent identity, family assignment, contamination control or complete offspring follow-up cannot be maintained.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Design before asking people to participate
Why this allocation: A known-hatch cohort can answer a persistent beginner question, but purchase-age anecdotes and oldest-visible-animal reports cannot estimate a lifespan distribution.
Next permitted unit: Draft a known-hatch, censoring-aware cohort protocol with durable identity, confirmed-death rules, transfer records and a fixed observation schedule.
Activation trigger: Multiple independent keepers can begin known-hatch cohorts under the same identity, loss and censoring rules and commit to long-term follow-up.
Stop decision: Do not open enrollment until loss, removal and last-seen rules are operational; stop adding cohorts if follow-up completeness cannot support time-to-event analysis.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: A chronic concentration boundary needs independently replicated nitrate-only exposures across molts and broods, which ordinary tank histories cannot isolate.
Next permitted unit: Prepare a methods question for an aquatic toxicology collaborator covering analytical concentration checks, aquarium-level replication and chronic reproductive endpoints.
Activation trigger: A qualified facility offers independently replicated systems and reviewable nitrate-only methods, or a new complete chronic Neocaridina study appears.
Stop decision: Stop literature expansion when new records repeat acute mortality or unmeasured household tank associations without changing the chronic inference.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: Controlled exposure and analyte-specific chemistry require specialist facilities and welfare oversight; accidental events cannot define a safe limit.
Next permitted unit: Seek specialist review of separate ammonia and nitrite designs, reporting basis, analytical verification and rescue boundaries.
Activation trigger: A qualified laboratory or complete direct chronic study becomes available with analyte-specific methods and independently replicated units.
Stop decision: Do not convert incidents, nominal concentrations or acute abstracts into additional threshold research or public safe-number claims.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: Causal oxygen boundaries require assigned and measured histories across temperature and life stage, not surface behavior or one spot measurement.
Next permitted unit: Define the smallest reviewable oxygen time-series and recovery design for discussion with an aquatic physiology collaborator.
Activation trigger: A partner can control oxygen histories, measure continuous exposure and maintain independently replicated aquarium units.
Stop decision: Stop the pass when candidate evidence lacks exposure traces, independent units or animal outcomes beyond short behavior.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: Manufacturer ratings and successful single tanks do not isolate filtration, flow, intake protection or mature-media effects.
Next permitted unit: Specify a complete-system comparison that varies one verified hydraulic condition while preserving mature media, biomass, habitat and maintenance.
Activation trigger: A collaborator can supply replicated mature systems, in-tank flow measurement and complete juvenile and adult denominators.
Stop decision: Do not collect additional equipment-name polls or convert flow ratings into biological turnover recommendations.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: An optimum requires ion-defined factorial response surfaces across documented lines, beyond the chemistry control available in ordinary community tanks.
Next permitted unit: Develop an analytical and factorial design question with a water-chemistry and experimental-design specialist.
Activation trigger: A suitable laboratory can verify ion composition and support replicated multigeneration treatments across documented source lines.
Stop decision: Stop adding occurrence ranges, seller recipes or GH, KH and TDS surveys that cannot identify ions or estimate an optimum.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: Fixture names and short preference observations confound spectrum, intensity, habitat and temperature without resolving long-term outcomes.
Next permitted unit: Specify measured animal-level light treatments, habitat controls, blinded observation and long-term colony endpoints for external method review.
Activation trigger: A partner can measure spectrum and animal-level intensity while maintaining independently replicated intact aquarium treatments.
Stop decision: Stop collecting fixture-name anecdotes when irradiance, spectrum, habitat or long-term animal denominators are missing.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: Full-life-cycle adequacy needs stable formulations, compositional analysis, intake and leaching measurement and specialist nutritional interpretation.
Next permitted unit: Prepare a complete-formulation and dry-ration design for review by an aquatic nutrition laboratory without centering a product brand.
Activation trigger: A partner can disclose or formulate stable diets, verify composition and follow replicated colonies through offspring performance.
Stop decision: Do not promote preference, pigmentation or short growth trials into completeness claims or accumulate product testimonials as evidence.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: Adult coexistence is easy to observe but does not measure hatchling predation, recruitment or welfare across repeated broods.
Next permitted unit: Develop humane stopping rules and a replicated shrimp-only versus one named fish and habitat comparison for independent welfare review.
Activation trigger: A qualified partner can provide replicated systems, complete life-stage counts and prospective adverse-event stopping authority.
Stop decision: Do not solicit uncontrolled fish additions or treat surviving visible adults as evidence of juvenile-safe coexistence.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: Diagnosis, verified exposure, agent clearance and life-stage safety require specialist authority and cannot be crowdsourced through dosing reports.
Next permitted unit: Present the evidence gap and minimum design to an aquatic veterinarian, parasitologist or qualified disease laboratory for critique.
Activation trigger: A specialist can confirm the agent, authorize welfare safeguards and verify concentration in replicated controlled systems.
Stop decision: Do not recruit treatment trials, recommend a dose or reinterpret unconfirmed disappearance as efficacy. Keep immediate public guidance at identification and system triage.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: Short juvenile density studies and single established colonies cannot estimate multigeneration complete-system capacity.
Next permitted unit: Specify a long complete-system design with life-stage counts, feed, recruitment, maintenance, nitrogen processing and prespecified welfare endpoints.
Activation trigger: A long-term collaborator can maintain replicated systems and preserve complete intervention, removal, recruitment and loss records.
Stop decision: Stop adding shrimp-per-volume rules, snapshots or unreplicated colony maxima that omit resources, age structure and maintenance history.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Qualified collaboration required
Why this allocation: Polymer authentication, contamination control and measured particle exposure require analytical facilities; uncontrolled dosing would add risk without interpretable evidence.
Next permitted unit: Ask an analytical ecotoxicology collaborator to review realistic source histories, particle verification, contamination blanks and direct individual endpoints.
Activation trigger: A suitable facility can verify polymer, shape, size and exposure and can run replicated controlled systems with welfare oversight.
Stop decision: Do not invite household dosing or convert visible debris, product presence or mechanistic biomarkers into a safe or harmful concentration.
Inspect the minimum answerable design and closure rule.
Gate 1
Make the governed knowledge system publicly available
Enter when: The complete local release, private backup, production schema and rollback identity are verified before deployment.
Completion proof: The canonical routes, portable knowledge files, sitemap, administrator boundary, consent, attribution and unsubscribe checks pass on the active production version.
Research boundary: No discretionary literature search is needed to complete this gate. Only a safety or correction trigger may interrupt release verification.
Earn scrutiny and adoption beyond the publisher
Enter when: Frozen review assignments, stable public artifacts and conflict and relationship boundaries are available to unaffiliated reviewers and users.
Completion proof: Qualified independent critiques receive finite public responses, and unaffiliated external decisions leave inspectable adoption receipts.
Research boundary: A reviewer may trigger a bounded correction or source-access task. Praise, follower growth and another broad search do not satisfy this gate.
25% target
Research and maintenance
Keep current claims correct, inspect triggered evidence changes and complete only the one active bounded validation.
Counts: A scheduled source-integrity review, a triggered literature pass, a correction propagation review or one unit allowed by the finite research portfolio.
Does not count: Untriggered searching, accumulating sources because a topic is interesting or repeating a search whose stop decision still applies.
Weekly proof: Name the trigger, affected public decision, exact stopping decision and the guide or gap record that changed or stayed unchanged.
35% target
Teaching and translation
Turn bounded knowledge into answers that curious, preparing and established keepers can understand and act on.
Counts: A reviewed guide improvement, lesson, claim check, visual, reply or retrieval change tied to one governed source boundary.
Does not count: Publishing volume without a keeper decision, copying claims into an ungoverned registry or simplifying away a material limitation.
Weekly proof: Name the keeper decision, audience, governed source, format and review receipt for the exact teaching artifact.
15% target
Learning and outcome measurement
Test whether people found, understood, used and returned to the guidance while preserving unfavorable and missing outcomes.
Counts: A protocol-compliant comprehension, question-coverage, beginner-retention, community-use or independent-review record and its finite review.
Does not count: Likes, reach or enrollment treated as learning, excluding unfavorable records or claiming causation from an owned campaign.
Weekly proof: Record the declared denominator, missingness, outcome category, decision rule and any resulting revision without inventing success.