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Comment by MrLavaLava on March 24, 2015 at 12:21am

Yeah it's a pity with the blue Fluidium bottles.

A few days ago i got a totally dead bottle of an Opal Fluidium, i saved the goo which was in the worst shape ever, there was white residue that had parted from the wax and lots of undefinable fibers and stuff , I put it aside and refilled the bottle, after pouring the goo of an astro I realized it was still considerably less than in my other fluidium bottles, so i had to spontaneously cannibalize a red astrobaby and voila - there i had it, the exact amount of goo as in the stock bottles, to my surprise, i might add.

For a fluidium refill the liquid of one astro is enough on the other hand. but with the goo, it is One and a half Astros, so to speak...which in reverse means you could fill an astro and a baby with one Fluidium bottle (which is a nice bonus, i had always thought before that 1 Astro equals 1 Fluidium goo-wise)

Nice idea with the mixing of goo, it works ,after some runs it is a homogenous mix, but one point to consider with the thing you have in mind is, for a real purple you normally need much more red than blue, if i remember correctly  3 Parts Red on 1 Part Blue or something like that, 50/50 could end being to darkblueish:(

Perhaps the best way to go would be heating up a decent amount of the red goo and then slowly adding blue, litlle by little , but that would mean getting an astro bottle with the pink goo, reducing it by let's say 20 - 25% and adding half (40-50%) a babybottle blue,,,,, the leftovers can surely be salvaged another day....

Comment by Aladdin 2 Lava on March 23, 2015 at 4:12pm

I might just do the fluid swap... I can imagine the lamp on the far right looks brilliant in person.

I wanted two of the blue Fluidium bottles, one for an Astro refill but they sold out :(

I've toyed with the idea of pouring a clear/blue and clear/pink Baby Astro into an Astro bottle to make clear/purple ! but fear it could turn out a very expensive mess !!! If money was no object I would give it a go.

Thanks for the kind offer of shipping a bottle to me but shipping would be too costly.

Great photo, you should put it on the main page for all to see.  

Comment by MrLavaLava on March 23, 2015 at 3:19pm

Great Idea... First time i took a photo of all my blue astros (w/o the blue/yellow one)

And for the clear/blue, I have only one clear/blue unfortunately, and if I come to think of it, a second one wouldn't be too shabby either. 

But why don't you just do a fluid swap, go get yourself a clear/turqoise Heritage bottle and then take one of your blue/blue twins and swap'em. The Turquoise looks killer in the blue liquid (far right), same goes for the clear/blue

(center) especially because this blue is different from the dark blue offered with the last fluidium replacement bottles.

What a pity they're sold out, won't cannibalize the one i have, but the goo would make for a great Astro AND a baby/telstar. And at the end of the day it would be nice have another shade of blue.....

Funny to note ,the two clear/turquoise Heritage bottles I own actually differ , they have  slightly different shades of blue, one (center left) is more of a light blue (like my custom lunar bottle), whereas the other (center right) is more of a turquoise with a greenish tint to it.. At first I was kinda disappointed, now I'm actually glad to have slightly different colors ,although it seems only subtle on photos , it is actually very notable in reality...

BTW, when and if I find a moderately priced clear/blue bottle in great condition and shipping to the UK ain't too expensive for you , I wouldn't mind sending  it to you:) 

Comment by Aladdin 2 Lava on March 23, 2015 at 10:04am

I needs a clear/blue !

Comment by MrLavaLava on March 23, 2015 at 9:13am

feelin' kinda blue......in a positive way, now that's lovely, all those nice Astros in those shades of blue

gonna do a shoot with 4 Blue Meanies myself, thanks for the inspiration..

clear/turquoise, clear/blue, blue/turquoise, blue/blue .. will be the participants in this unscheduled 'Flow-In'

gonna put the pics up in the evening, gotta get them up and running first....

Comment by Aladdin 2 Lava on October 4, 2014 at 4:28pm

@ Brandon...aqua describes the wax colour perfectly... some may say baby blue... I would say turquoise.

Comment by Aladdin 2 Lava on October 3, 2014 at 5:29am

Nuffing hits the spot like Mathmos or summat.........

Comment by Aladdin 2 Lava on October 3, 2014 at 5:22am

Brandon. blue/blue.. clear/blue... blue/blue...yellow/blue . 

Comment by Brandon Ward on October 2, 2014 at 10:20pm

is the 2nd from left the aqua colored wax?

Comment by Aladdin 2 Lava on October 2, 2014 at 4:44am

Thank you so much for featuring another one of my random photo's and ramblings !

Made my day yet again, I Iove you guys.

Pete (Aladdin Sane)  ;)

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