Not rude or inappropriate to ask. It's always worth knowing what qualifies someone to give you advice (or not).
I'm the expert moderator of this forum (designated by the forum owner), and have a considerable chemistry background (PhD in chemistry from Harvard, for example) and lengthy experience moderating reef chemistry forums (nearly 30 years since I started as an expert moderator on Compuserve's Fishnet in the early to mid 90's).
My primary purpose here is to ensure that the discussions in this subforum are consistent with what is known and/or hypothesized about chemistry in general and coral reef aquarium chemistry in particular.
Sadly, many other online forums, Facebook, blogs, and videos are filled with incorrect chemistry notions, and one must be very careful in deciding what is believable and what is not. Since many reefers have little or no chemistry background, it can be very challenging for them to recognize and know how to solve apparent issues. Even apparent reef aquarium experts sometimes espouse serious chemistry mistakes that will mislead others, and this forum hopefully serves to hep reduce those problems.
