Maybe we could get Boomer to comment. This is a cut and paste from a scam type web site questioning the device.
Regarding last week's aquarium "EcoAqualizer" item, reader David Stafford of Cornwall, England, made an inquiry of the site:
I was very pleased to see: "ECO-Aqualizer is completely safe for both saltwater fish and freshwater fish." Could this be because it actually does nothing at all? After all, the explanation of its modus operandi has no basis in science, does it?
I suggest that readers who have not visited the site, do so now in order to understand and perhaps share Mr. Stafford's puzzlement concerning what is presented there as the technical details behind this device/system. See it at
www.ecoaqualizer.com/index.htm. Phillip Newcomb, the inventor of this fish-magnet scam, promptly responded to David, obviously despairing of his dismal lack of scientific understanding, and offering this much-needed enlightenment:
Hello David,
Water is H20. H2O is Oxygen and Hydrogen. Oxygen is Negative charged. Hydrogen is positively charged. Thus water is a POLAR substance. This polar nature allows water to be a univeral [sic] solvent.
Whether fresh or salt. H2O is H20. That's the basic science. Due to the polar nature of water, +'s and -'s bind up things. ECO-Aqualizer disrupts this binding as well as hydrogen bonding.
If you feel it don't [sic] work — don't buy it. Keep doing what your [sic] doing. It's the only aquarium product with a full 180 Day Money Back Guarantee.
Thank you in advance...
Now I'm worried. Any system that "disrupts" the binding between hydrogen and oxygen, as well as between hydrogen atoms, might really spoil the entire universe! We need those +'s and -'s, friends! Oh, wait.... electrolysis does that, doesn't it? These high-tech matters confuse this old brain....
What worries me even more is that water is a "universal solvent." That means it dissolves everything, so the planet Earth is currently going into solution! Stand back! This won't be pretty!
Just what ever gets into these amateurs like Newcomb that makes them think they've got science going for them? Too many comic books, perhaps?