A Tale of Two Green Lavas

[Dan S]

In July, 2008 I purchased 2 identical Retro Bomb Lava Lamps - Green Glow Motion to put up on the mantle.  They have been happily going on and off every night in unison via timer, when sometime over this summer, the cats knocked one of them down - I think while it was illuminated (molten).  The fall didn't break the globe, so I just put it back into it's stand and didn't think anything more about it.  Except in the last few weeks, I have noticed that the one which fell has both semi-clouded liquid and the formerly fluorescent green lava has turned a murky brown or olive color.  These lamps are green lava with clear liquid.

 

I located what I thought was a valid replacement on eBay, but it turned out to be only a similar lamp with yellow lava in blue liquid which photographs green, but is not a match.  So now I have three mismatched lava lamps. I have read some of the posts on replacing or filtering cloudy liquid, but the tutorials on replacing the lava seem to suggest that I would have to dye my own green.  Oh dear, what a lot of trouble the kitties have caused...

 

 

 

[Autumn]

These lamps are so cheap that the best solution is to just buy another.

I think this lamp has the same globe. The site is out of stock, but ebay usually has them.

http://www.edmwi.com/home/edm/page_899_127/rocket_lava_lamp___green...

[Dan S]

Right, I'm pretty sure the solution is just to get another one.  That vendor is who I bought the originals from.  It just happens this variation is either out of stock or overpriced right now, so I have some time to ponder the whole thing. 

I just find it interesting that a drop could change the color of the lava.  It's like it shook the green out of it or broke the air seal and the green lava went bad or something.  I can understand the cloudy liquid part from a drop, but not the lava color change.

[Autumn]

Yeah, it is odd that it changed colors, I have never seen that happen before. Looking at ebay you may have to settle for blue. I actually owned a blue and gave it to my girlfriend, it looked really nice.