Allofus123
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Well we have certainly opened up the Silca Gel bead discussion on many fronts over the past few days. When someone asked me if they could condition Kitty Litter Silca Gel beads (KLH) with already conditioned beads I first reacted with absolutely not. My experience was with using an oasis to keep a constant enviroment and I didn't believe the conditioned beads could "keep up". As I continued to think about it I moved to the maybe stage. The more I thought about it the more I felt it could be done. By the next morning I had convinced myself that it absolutely could be done if managed correctly and planned to do a documented experiment to prove it.
As with most experiments you always need to work around road blocks and I've already ran into one. Kinda funny when I think about it..... you'll see why in a moment.
First, I had a baggy full of Kitty Litter beads left over from three years ago. These were unconditioned beads that have been sitting in my garage. I gathered up some equipment... an old humi, digital hygro, KL beads.
I planned to put equal amounts of conditioned beads and unconditioned beads in each container.
As with any experiment you need to know a few base things first so time to test some equipment. Salt test - 75% - Bingo!
Next was to test current rh on the unconditioned beads........ :0 Was I reading that right? 65%? WTH?
I'm guessing that the beads reconditioned themselves sitting in the garage all this time...lol. I'm not positive of this yet and am running a few more mini experiments to verify this. I'll update this as I complete those tests. If thats the case my experiment is toast unless someone has some unconditioned KL they want to send to me.
More to follow........
As with most experiments you always need to work around road blocks and I've already ran into one. Kinda funny when I think about it..... you'll see why in a moment.
First, I had a baggy full of Kitty Litter beads left over from three years ago. These were unconditioned beads that have been sitting in my garage. I gathered up some equipment... an old humi, digital hygro, KL beads.
I planned to put equal amounts of conditioned beads and unconditioned beads in each container.
As with any experiment you need to know a few base things first so time to test some equipment. Salt test - 75% - Bingo!
Next was to test current rh on the unconditioned beads........ :0 Was I reading that right? 65%? WTH?
I'm guessing that the beads reconditioned themselves sitting in the garage all this time...lol. I'm not positive of this yet and am running a few more mini experiments to verify this. I'll update this as I complete those tests. If thats the case my experiment is toast unless someone has some unconditioned KL they want to send to me.
More to follow........