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Do you have a reactor for it? It needs to have water trickle over it so it tumbles lightly. If to much tumbling it will break and to little causes it to clump hence the need for a reactor
You could run water through it like in a filter sock or something, but it won't last long. This stuff clumps up and needs to be kept at a 'slow boil' to run effectively.