Off work and home.

Down another jacket. don't ask, It's Christmas and cold. It's being put to good use and I have tons of hoodies.

My Christmas this year is low key.

My oldest daughter got engaged today. I'm going to be a mother-in-law in about a year. Poor guy doesn't know how strange we are or else likes us.

On another note.

tested some colloidal silver.

Got a buddy in a pre-treat industrial setting with access to an inductively coupled plasma to run tests on it for me.

As expected. the silver content is through the roof. 40.0076 ppm of 50 mL into 950 mL of water.

It killed the goldfish.

It also had high levels of lead and iron in it.

lead .7859 ppm
iron .0076 ppm
cadmium .003 ppm
nickel was in it too .0002 ppm
zinc as well .0001 ppm

pH was a 9.47

State lab friend is running tests too. I should know them soon. I expect hers to back up what the friend in the pretreat got. Sort of a double blind testing thing here.

be aware that the undiluted stuff also showed traces of cyanide and arsenic. Most likely from the original water or some other source around it when made. This concerns me. because just 10 mL of the stuff undiluted into a rather large 15 gallon tank killed the goldfish in under 24 hours.

When in doubt goldfish become pawns in my testing. They survive fairly well even with some harsh stuff, but was not expecting the fish to keel over and float.


I ran an NH3N test on it and a total TKN, both are tests that guage nitrogen and ammonia content. If this had been water to discharge it would have violated numerous sewer use ordinances, discharge permits and EPA guidelines.

I also ran a BOD3 on it. That was low and seemed okay. didn't have anything serious pop up to concern me there.

under my limited microscope, it seemed effective in the previously stated dilution to kill everything. organisms looked exploded on the slide. It even killed off the good stuff. And a goldfish.

Based on this I still am not sure what one does with the stuff.

However, I have deep and grave concerns based on trace arsenic and cyanide in it. That might indicate the original water source should be tested.

But it killed everything.

Including the goldfish.