While your example looks like cell rot ( and I would bet your right ) I think what Shooter is trying to say is that the only way to be sure is to test it. This discussion goes on back and fourth a million times in the e-Bay 101 thread. Are we sooo sure that the dye in those scales does not disperse water more than the clear ? Again you are probably right but the only way to say for sure is by testing. And I think that is already agreed upon by all those who have been collecting for years.